Schools Re-open
After a protracted dry winter, schools are reopening. The future generation, as has always been, is very excited to resume schooling, share their tales...
Crisis in lawmaking
Kashmir’s legislative assembly will conclude its marathon budget sessions this week. Apart from offering details of what the state government will earn and spend...
More Murders
Every time, guns open up, tragedies scatter around. The new routine in last three decades suggests that the political beings from all sides, cutting...
Address Border First
Kashmir borders, both the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB) have turned hugely explosive and terribly deadly. In the first few...
60,000 new Employees
Appointing daily wagers has been a favourite pastime of the politicians who have ruled and misruled Kashmir for a very long time. Every minister...
Editorial
Cold Welcome
With next tourism season just a few months away the big question remains: are we prepared to host a million tourists? Or more...
Editorial
Industry Incentives
In the various debates revolving around GST implementation in J&K, apprehensions were expressed by the industry regarding continuation of tax exemptions, available to...
Editorial
Vikas’s Flip Side
Development, off late, has become a buzz word for governments in Delhi and Srinagar. The present dispensation at the centre came to...
Editorial
Repo rate change
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut REPO rate by 25 bps (0.25%) to 6 per cent in its third Bi-monthly Monetary Policy...
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Unlock Jamia
In order to ensure that the Friday passes off peacefully, the governance structure has taken a completely extremist approach: to keep the Jamia...
Editorial
Press Council Visit
Kashmir Editors Guild (KEG) was correct in suggesting the Press Council of India (PCI) that the institution must make efforts and salvage...
Editorial
Amarnath tragedy
Kashmir, in a way, has been into mourning for a long time now. It has already a generation of its population in its...
It is our year NINE
Kashmir boasts of more than 1500 years of recorded history. Pandit Kalhana, who wrote his chronicle Rajatarangini, somewhere in twelfth century, dominates the narrative...
Dear Readers!
After the on-going crisis started early last month, this is the fifth issue that is in your hands. The irregularity with which we are...
Don’t Preach
Assuming that Ms Mufti is naive to rub people of her state the wrong way every time she makes a public appearance is wrong....
