A New Legislative Map?
If the draft proposals by the 3-member Delimitation Commission are accepted, this is going to be the new map of post-2019 democratic set-up, reports...
Srinagar First
by Masood Hussain
For most of the last one thousand years, Srinagar has survived as Kashmir’s capital. This is in addition to its other identities...
Real Estate Concerns
Almost 14 months after the Jammu and Kashmir’s historic land laws basket was hugely altered by binning some and changing many, the administration finally...
Jammed Wheels
Once the transporter of last resorts, the premier SRTC is struggling to find a role that could help it survive, reports Saifullah Bashir after...
Short Circuit
A series of interventions in the Jammu and Kashmir’s energy sector remained unchallenged till the PDD employees claimed their status was getting compromised as...
Inside Orphanages
As a sting operation involving Covid19 orphans shocked Kashmir society and the government, Minhaj Masoodi visited orphanages only to find that all the pandemic...
Caught In The Lingo
As Jammu and Kashmir got a basket full of languages, some of the employers are taking the Hindi route to recruit people. In one...
Violating Childhood
No Covid19 orphan is displaced in Kashmir or Jammu but the last fortnight’s sting operation did revive the nightmares about some of the worst...
Whither Jobs?
A still-raging pandemic and unending political uncertainty have dented the economy and pushed the job market to the edge, both in the private and...
An ‘Encounter’
Hours before the security grid declared the Hyderpora ‘encounter’ over, a couple of tweets by a slain builder’s relative pushed Kashmir to an edge,...
A New Investigator
With the formation of the State Investigating Agency (SIA) on NIA-pattern, Masood Hussain reports about the continuity of change in Jammu and Kashmir’s security...
Home Minister Visit
Coinciding with targeted killings, Home Minister, Amit Shah’s first post-August 2019 visit, talked more of development and less of politics and lacked a clear...
A Carnage Closure
As the troops are battling an elusive group of fugitives in dense Poonch forests for the third week, curtains fell on the Nadimarg massacre...
Disquiet In Medical Schools
With authorities opening a section of graduate and half of the postgraduate medical education berths to an All India Quota, most of the medical...
Old Ideas, New Investments
With impressive concessions in hand, as the government is busy planning to get investors from the plains to change the industrial culture in a...