Media

While the world is busy fighting the Coronavirus pandemic, the law enforcers in Kashmir booked three journalists in a row and brought Kashmir back to the global headlines, reports Shams Irfan On April 18, Masrat Zahra,...

Kashmir media has been a harried lot throughout. As the pressures mounted in recent days with cases under harsh laws being registered against them, the winning of the Pulitzer by three Jammu and Kashmir...

Journalist Javaid Ahmad dies of sudden cardiac arrest while on way to his office, Umar Mukhtar, his friend writes In a tragic development, Javaid Ahmad, 31, the senior Rising Kashmir newspaper reporter died of a heart...

by Tahir Bhat During wee hours on Friday, November 20, 2020, when Greater Kashmir publisher Rashid Mukhdoomi’s phone peeped too many times, he saw his staffers messaging him about Mudasir Ali’s death. In anger, he...

Living in perpetual gloom and sadness for decades, some young men have unleashed their funny bone on the internet, thus offering moments of laughter and smile. Farzana Nisar meets content creators of some of...

A picture is worth a thousand words. True. But ever thought who are these guys who risk their lives, work in extremely dangerous conditions, inside world’s most volatile areas, under the deep seas, in...

Chances are you might have come across Xaid Film videos many times and shared a laugh too. Saima Bhat meets the brain behind these funny videos to tell his story At 18 this Pampore teenager...

In 1981, when Mahendra Koul (July 28, 1922 – July 18, 2018) visited the 10-Downing Street, he looked at Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.“I looked at her from top to toe,” he later recalled, “No...

Shamim Ahmed Shamim was one of Kashmir’s prominent journalist editors who was later in politics and was elected to the state assembly and the parliament. He edited Aina newspaper that was known for his...

Supriya Sahu, Director General Doordarshan on game show KBC and the issues related with the DD-Kashir KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Can Kashmiri version of KBC help revive the Doordarshan Srinagar to its earlier glory? SUPRIYA SAHU (SS):...

In 2003, a PaK woman returned home from Jammu with a daughter born in jail as a result of rape by the warden and died two years later. Almost 16 years later, a group...

Shams Irfan on the quitting of Bollywood by promising Kashmir actor Zaira Waseem, a decision that triggered a new disquiet  in the tinsel town and social media Last week, when Zaira Wasim, an 18-year-old Kashmiri actress,...

  Gagging mass media has been an age old practice to stop people from knowing what they are supposed to. With internet, a new edifice of social information emerged. But managing it is pretty easier...

In a period spanning over half a century, Radio Kashmir became an inseparable part of Kashmir’s modern history and culture. While the station gradually lost its sheen with the emergence of an overwhelming situation...