Need for Change

With 10th class results out and festivity filling the air around Kashmir a lot many important questions also got buried under the noise of...

Right to Life

On the 10th of every December, world takes a break to ponder over the state of human rights in conflict torn places across the...

Disabled Mentality

Last week when the cleric separatist Mirwaiz Umer Farooq said J&K was not a “better” state but a “police state”, he was completely on...

Modi & Kashmir

With Lok Sabha election round the corner BJP’s PM candidate has upped his ante against one and all hoping to strike a chord with...

Life in Darkness

Come winters and Kashmir slips into perpetual darkness. If one looks from sky one can see nothing but darkness enveloping the valley. The absence...

Care for Kids

Special functions were organized across India including J&K on the occasion of Childrens’ Day on November 14, birth anniversary of Pandit Nehru. In Kashmir,...

Migratory Resources

With half of the population migrating to warmer places in Jammu and other Indian states, winter in Kashmir is often a dull affair. There...

Get The Real Culprits

For the last few weeks, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation is sealing buildings which have emerged in violation of the master plan guiding the development...

Moving Again

Almost every year, when 150-strong fleet of state road transport trucks carrying loads of important government documents and other paraphernalia start to make their...

Keran Crisis

Nearly for three weeks, Keran was in news. Despite that nobody was in a position to see and report from the spot, located around...

Probe Politics

On the first day of state assembly’s autumn session held in Srinagar Chief Minister Omar Abdullah ordered a judicial probe in to the September...

Mowing Down

In a shocking incident, a speedy truck (tipper) mowed down 52 cattle including sheep and goats at Nowgam crossing in the early hours of...

AFSPA Influence

For the last many years, the entire debate over helping Kashmir restore normalcy is surrounding special laws especially the AFSPA that is mother of...

Smouldering South

Every time, the situation shows a semblance of normality, something untoward happens and kicks things back to square one. By and large, official machinery...

Revive Art Forms

Keeping aside the discourse created against the conduct of Bavarain music concert by Zubin Mehta in Shalimar garden and the stubbornness of the organizers...