Elections

Kashmir has experienced interestingly different elections, but the change in mainland India’s political landscape has led to an identity assertion which many think could...

Mushrooming of small political parties in election season is an expected crop. But what is perhaps not expected is the fall of their allegiance...

Desperate to repeat Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Maharashtra in poll-bound Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir, BJP’s grand strategist and party president Amit Shah is...

On the other side of Jawahar tunnel, BJP wave has reportedly gripped 37 out of 87 assembly seats of Jammu and Kashmir. So will...

Ruling NC felt heat this summer when its charming patriach Dr Abdullah lost election for the first time. In quick follow-up, Abdullah scion left...

After polling out its favourite son in summer polls, Chenab Valley is feverish again. Though Ghulam Nabi Azad is doing his best to retain...

Politicians in Kashmir not only enjoy the privilege to frame laws for the masses but impunity to mend them! With negligible conviction rate politicians...

Looking for a government job, get a degree first. Want to make laws and rule the state, fret not. You can be a cabinet...

It takes Rs 100 annually to secure VVIPs in a cash starved state. Safwat Zargar reports the largesse of a system that scrooge on...

The state still caught in monarch practice of durbar move is safe-haven for its movers and shakers who often fly up by creating void...

It is been argued since long that politics and business are hand in glove, but in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, they are...

Politics has ceased to be a social service. It is a formal profession now. A generation is keen to upscale what it acquires. An...

Legislature is gradually becoming an expensive institution as lawmakers, cutting across party lines, use their position to dictate their costs for the system they...

Everybody in J&K politics aspires to be the Chief Minister. It is not only because it is the ultimate what the politics can offer...