Accreditation Crisis
Kashmiri students pursuing professional degrees outside the Valley face recurring institutional lapses, weak oversight, and punitive responses that jeopardise careers.
Every year, thousands of students...
Kashmir: The Apple Boost
Halting south Kashmir railway alignments protected orchards, livelihoods, and trust, emerging as a key confidence-building measure that balanced development goals with local consent and...
Kashmir: The Pheran Economy
The pheran can drive Kashmir’s cultural economy if the government, designers, and society collaborate effectively.
The Kashmiri pheran is more than a garment; it is...
Kashmir: Making Every Birth Count
Despite improved neonatal outcomes, Kashmir must strengthen peripheral childcare and integrate public and private systems to ensure equitable, timely newborn survival.
Kashmir’s steady decline in...
New Campus, Old Fault Line
The law university dispute reflects how education in Jammu and Kashmir is repeatedly entangled in regional rivalry and mistrust.
The controversy over the proposed National...
Education Is Not a Battleground
Communal politics around the SMVD medical college expose the dangers of turning educational institutions into ideological battlegrounds.
The controversy surrounding the derecognition of the Shri...
Harassed For Survival
Recurring harassment of Kashmiri traders and migrants in the plains is fuelling fear, insecurity and deepening alienation despite police action.
Every winter, tens of thousands...
Merit Must Matter
Kashmir cricket’s first big IPL moment underlines the urgent need for transparent, accountable sporting governance
Auqib Nabi’s Rs 8.40 crore IPL auction moment is being...
Kashmir: Education Crisis Deepens
Kashmir: Education Crisis Deepens
Jammu and Kashmir schools face rising secondary dropouts, low-enrolment institutions, and under-utilised infrastructure challenges.
Recent data placed before the parliament exposes a...
Kashmir: Age-Relief Stalemate
Aspirants face mounting uncertainty as Jammu and Kashmir’s age-relaxation decision stalls, leaving the JKCCE examination clouded by administrative delay and confusion
The Jammu and Kashmir...
Mistrust Consumes Opportunity
After the Delhi blast, widespread profiling has shut doors for Kashmiri students and professionals, shrinking jobs, admissions and opportunities across India.
The weeks following the...
Handle with Care
Explosives in Kashmir, mishandled across eras, have repeatedly turned routine procedures into disasters, underscoring the urgent need for stricter, safer handling.
Kashmir has lived with...
A Dastardly Act
Kashmir, shaken by the Delhi blast links, faces a renewed crisis as condemnation is unanimous, but shrinking spaces and revived stereotypes deepen its anxiety.
Kashmir...
Kashmir: The Silence of the Fourth Pillar
Lawmakers urged transparent media policy, fair ad distribution, and protection of press freedom in Jammu and Kashmir.
In the recently concluded week-long session of the...
A Geological Milestone for Kashmir
Guryul Ravine in Srinagar is declared a National Geoheritage Site, preserving fossils from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.
The recent declaration of Guryul Ravine at Khanmoh,...
