Jail Unrest?
Days after a fight between the jail officials and the prisoners in central jail Srinagar, a series of interventions started to unravel the real...
Ladakh in J&K
More than 178 years of losing its sovereignty in a ruthless invasion, many years before Kashmir was sold, Ladakh had something to celebrate when...
Jamaat Jammed
As the Jamaat-e-Islami workers are imprisoned across Jammu and Kashmir after the party was banned by the Home Ministry, forcing lot many to go...
Hurried Follow Up
Within days after the Lethpora car bomb attack, the central government initiated a series of measures that added to the fear which the explosions...
Tinkering Constitution
On recommendations of the governor, the central cabinet approved certain changes in the state’s reservation laws that M J Aslam says is beginning of...
Juley Ladakh
In sub-zero temperatures, Ladakh was excited when governor Satya Pal Malik’s administration decided to elevate the region’s status to a division. Everybody welcomed the...
Bye George
After emerging as a rebel in Indian politics, George Fernandes was involved in Kashmir, directly and indirectly, for a long time. In tumultuous 1990s,...
An ITI Fall
The revolution in the Information Technology was key to the fall of two major central government PSUs, the HMT and the ITI in Srinagar....
Sins Stink
The politics within the various factions making the SMC triggered a crisis within the class that led to the collapse of the basic activity....
Vohra Void
Narinder Nath Vohra was on a dental chair when Home Ministry conveyed him that his tenure is over. Later, he spent a few nights...
Generational Spill Over
A Rs 2.13 crore irrigation project approved by the Planning Commission in 1979 was initiated by Sheikh Abdullah in 1981, and was about three...
The Killer Heroin
Gone are the days when Heroin was just passing through Kashmir. Now its use is gradually overtaking other drugs and the economically well-off are...
Roshni Blackened
NC devised a controversial scheme aimed at selling state land to the people who had encroached upon and generate a corpus that will fund...
Let’s Fax
by Saima Bhat
As the five-month-long spell of Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir suddenly found it melting under the growing warmth of the state’s...
Bad Investment
In the 1990s migration, the state broadcaster lost eighty percent of its human resource which made running the show very difficult. An alternative emerged...