Losing colour
Saffron, the prized crop of Kashmir produced primarily in the Karevas of Pampore has always been prone to adulteration, given its high price and...
Overcoming barriers
As the confrontation between the government and its employees slumps trade and makes people suffer, Kashmir Life analyses whether a solution to the crisis...
Bleeding Business
More than 115 days after Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its distinction and statehood, when the businesses were evaluating the losses and exploring...
Apple On Mughal Road
For nearly half of the month, south Kashmir Shopian is under curfew after five killings. Government ordered the CRPF garrison to move out but...
Workforce Exodus
Within hours after the government issued marching orders to the tourists and pilgrims ahead of August 5, tens of thousands of the non locals...
Labour Pains
A series of civilian killings including five non-native workers have pushed Kashmir into a credibility crisis and an economic mess at the same time...
Worker Tales
Come spring and tens of thousands of workers from north Indian states reach Kashmir for not less than a six-month stint. In a comparatively...
Road Block
In the superfast world, Kashmir’s arterial highway witnessed biweekly halts for the first time after 1922. Earlier, it was for the privileged passage of...
Tourists Return?
After 18 months of hiatus, the tourist footfalls have started surging in Kashmir. Insiders in the hospitality sector believe that if Gulmarg crowds are...
Railway Millionaires
As Railways ventured into Kashmir Valley, it paid 600 crore as compensation for land to people. But as the train chugs, the traces of...
Clearly Stagnant
Data revealed about the banking operations in Jammu and Kashmir in the last six months suggests an improved credit off-take by the corporate and...
Lending: Managing Price, Risk
Credit in conflict areas is expensive because it involves risk. But the government can rediscover its subsidies set up and invest a bit of...
Walnut Falls
Farmers, businessmen and politicians exhibit no difference when they start counting the foreign exchange earnings, almost stagnant for the last few years. Muhammad Younis...
Bloody Harvest
Unlike all other unrests that Kashmir witnessed since 1990, apple somehow escaped the crisis. In the wake of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s...
The Eid Slump
Eid has ceased to be a business opportunity as the fall in liquidity and inflation has seriously crippled the purchasing capacity of the consumer....
