Kashmir: Helping Urdu Survive
Retaining Urdu as a formal requirement for revenue administration posts is insufficient on its own. A structured set of countermeasures, beginning with comprehensive digital...
Kashmir: War Against Drugs
As drug abuse emerges as a major challenge in Jammu and Kashmir, law enforcement agencies have launched an intensified campaign to dismantle cartels and...
Erasing the Script?
The Jammu and Kashmir government has quietly dropped Urdu from revenue recruitment rules, igniting a battle over language, identity, and who controls the administrative...
Kashmir: Lawmakers Find Justice
A court order freed an MLA. Another gave an MP a week with his dying father. Kashmir's jailed lawmakers made headlines for all the...
Kashmir Lawmakers: Sitting Ducks?
After a gunman nearly killed Farooq Abdullah in Jammu, Kashmir's legislators spent a furious Assembly sitting demanding to know why the administration has stripped...
Kashmir: Roads to Everywhere
Jammu and Kashmir is undergoing its most ambitious road-building drive ever, with Rs 1.22 lakh crore invested across 2,500 km of highways, tunnels and...
Hormuz to Hirpora: The War Impact
A distant conflict in the Strait of Hormuz is forcing Kashmir to unlearn a century of energy evolution. The kerosene lamp is coming back....
Kalakote: A Silenced Coalfield
Mining in Kalakote (Rajouri) has stopped after safety orders, while Rs 71.34 crore provident fund dues and a Rs 179.04 crore claim over the...
Kashmir: A Generation in Waiting
In Jammu and Kashmir, daily wagers’ insecurity, stalled regularisation, skewed reservations, 77,099 vacancies and rising unemployment deepen youth despair, even as credit schemes like...
Kashmir’s Stray Scourge
Surging dog-bite cases across Kashmir reveal a deepening public health crisis, driven by unchecked stray populations, waste mismanagement, delayed treatment, and systemic failure to...
Kashmir: The Mosque Mapping
Jammu and Kashmir Police’s mosque profiling drive, seeking exhaustive institutional and personal data, has triggered widespread unease, with leaders calling it invasive, unconstitutional surveillance...
Kashmir’s Kitchen Fear
Egg contamination fears in Kashmir have triggered widespread panic, collapsing demand, drawing political intervention, exposing heavy import dependence, and reviving concerns over weak food...
Kashmir: The Vanishing Sarkari Noukri
In Jammu and Kashmir, the state workforce is shrinking fast as recruitment slows and contractual hiring rises. As the salaries decline, pensions soar, unemployment...
Kashmir: A Daughter’s Promise
The Ladli Beti scheme has transformed attitudes toward daughters in Jammu and Kashmir, offering financial security despite procedural hurdles. In districts suffering from a...
Narwal: Bulldozer Births Brotherhood
A politically fraught demolition of journalist Arfaz Daing’s home in Jammu has triggered public outrage, official denials, political confrontation, and an unexpected chain of...