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Wednesday, July 29, 2026
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Editorial

It is the newspaper’s opinion on a particular issue.

Lt Governor Shri Manoj Sinha administered the oath of office and secrecy to Chief Minister Shri Omar Abdullah at the swearing-in-ceremony held at SKICC, Srinagar (1)

Too little, too late

 Since last week’s defeat in Lok Sabha elections NC has stepped on the accelerator to gear up for the upcoming assembly elections. There seems...

Voters have Spoken

The much awaited Lok Sabha results are out with some ‘surprising’ revelations. When it comes to Kashmir, the ruling coalition alliance had been white...

Divided We Fall

Indian parliamentary elections in Kashmir are usually a dull affair as people fail to relate with the mainland politics. But in 2014 things were...

Think Again

Three days after 26-year-old Bashir Ahmad Bhat from Nawakadal was killed in CRPF firing a major part of Srinagar city continues to be under...

Act, Not React

It was part of idea cellular’s multi-crore ad campaign that irked people in Kashmir and made them react. The ad showed two women customers...

Soil into Cement

In last 25 years of conflict what happened in Kashmir will always remain part of our collective history. But what everybody would like to...

Lease of Life

Interestingly the official website of Jammu and Kashmir tourism shows Tosa-Maidan, a vast meadow in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, a must visit tourist destination....

Life is Precious

It was an unusual scene at busy Amira Kadal in Srinagar when a teenager girl jumped in to the river Jhelum to end her...

Unwire Us

Finally Srinagar Municipal Corporation mustered courage to seek Inspector General of CRPF’s intervention in ridding city of concertina wires. How CRPF is going to...

Robotic Intervention

Every year when new tourist season begins in Kashmir and hordes of tourists flock for a glimpse of our beautiful vale, we welcome them...

Drowned Again

As soon as snow began to fall and people were struggling to negotiate through slippery roads administration was nowhere to be seen. The scenes...

Outsourcing Education

What everybody seems to neglect in the recent controversy that erupted after some Kashmiri students studying outside celebrated Pakistan’s win over India in Asia...

Own It

Most of the infrastructure that evolved in last more than twenty years to fight insurgency, has its foundations on two inter-dependent laws, the disturbed...

The ‘Other’

Stepping outside Jawahar tunnel is not always a trip to remember. Some hindrances do play a spoilsport. And the matter indeed becomes pivotal given...

Jungle Rule

In November 2012, the surfacing of a video footage from South Kashmir’s apple bowl Shopian, in which an angry mob was allegedly trying to...