At Your Doorstep
In order to ensure that footfalls on streets remain at the lowest, the administration in Srinagar is delivering essentials to families at their doorsteps....
Deafening Domicile
Amid the counter-Covid-19 lockdown, Delhi quietly rolled out the new rules defining domicile of the newly created Union Territory. Amended a few days later,...
Coronavirus: Are We Ready?
Poor infrastructure, lack of critical equipment for doctors, and poor coordination between government and experts indicates Kashmir is not as ready as the officials claim,...
Omar, Mehbooba, And PSA
UT administration’s invoking of the Public Safety Act (PSA) has triggered a lot of heat and storm. It is now the Supreme Court that...
Hyped Initiatives?
Between an over-hyped political outreach and a curtain raiser for investment in Jammu and Kashmir, there was a ‘dirty picture’ and a radical revelation...
Left In The Lurch
In the Jammu and Kashmir’s downgrade to a Union Territory, most of the autonomous Commissions were closed down. These included the Commission for Women....
Divulging Details
Barely four months after the government justified undoing of Article 370 by asserting that Jammu and Kashmir’s backwardness was rooted in its special status,...
Dreaming A Home
Caught in the heaps of files and procedures, the officials in the rural development department are oblivious of the inhuman conditions in which the...
Weary Voyages
Since most of the people detained in anticipation of the August 5 decision belong to low-income groups, Umar Mukhtar met a few families to...
Guns In The Government
As the gun battles were in focus in the last 30 years, a section of bureaucracy was arming the deep-pocketed criminals. Now the CBI...
The Disempowering Debate
Integration and subsequent bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir is the major happening in contemporary history with consequences within and outside India. But the work...
The Kashmir Spillover?
As protests, sloganeering, stone pelting surfaced on mainland India streets, Kashmir’s Standard Operations Procedure (SOP) was literally in vogue with arrests, firing, internet ban...
A Model Wasted
Deep down south, the government invested heavily in creating a model health centre. As it is waiting for inauguration, part of the precious equipment...
New Initiatives
New systems and rules are emerging in the twin UTs of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state, reports Tahir Bhat
The erstwhile state of Jammu and...
Bleeding Business
More than 115 days after Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its distinction and statehood, when the businesses were evaluating the losses and exploring...