Compensation Mess
Empty government coffer has put two important road widening projects on indefinite hold in Srinagar. But that was not all. There are hundreds of...
Developmental Offensive?
Amid reports of Delhi considering yet another package for flood devastated J&K, R S Gull examines the costs and consequences involved in the earlier...
Kashmir’s Babu
Before passing recently at 73, Ashok Jaitly was someone who understood pulse of Kashmir and was its de-facto ruler during Dr Farooq Abdullah’s government....
Rs 500 Crore Rescue
September 2014 floods incapacitated individuals, institutions and the systems. Twisted reportage by Delhi media projecting army as the main rescuer washed away a rare...
Jailer, Class Apart
Rajni Sehgal, J&K’s most senior female jailor who once jumped to newspaper front pages for training Bangladeshi prisoners in Kashmir embroidery in Kot Bhalwal,...
Honeymoon Over
As Mufti Sayeed led PDP-BJP coalition is completing first 100 days in office, Bilal Handoo tries to identify the governance mood that waxed and...
A Kishtwar Commission
After his interim report absolved NC leader Sajad Kichloo in December 2013 paving way for his return to Omar Abdullah’s council of ministers, Justice...
Games, They Play
NC led coalition spent most of its time in delaying the investigations in the notoriously famous cricket funds scam. His successors in PDP seem...
Rebuilding Srinagar
Most of the skimpy infrastructure, part of the trade and best housing enclaves were decimated by September 2014 floods. After Omar Abdullah lost his...
“The mess NC created in last six years is huge. If they think it...
Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari tells Saima Bhat that common man will start noticing the change on ground within next 5 months
Kashmir Life (KL): When...
Quick Yielding Projects
Honeymoon period apart, Mufti Sayeed led government’s politically correct statesmanship has kept the TV screens burning for all these days. But why does not...
Madame Ministers
In an “unholy alliance,” two women ministers have secured their berth as junior ministers. By focusing on women power, both female faces in Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s council...
MMS 2.0
With 20 new faces in 24 members cabinet Mufti Mohammad Sayeed begins his second inning as Chief Minister. Syed Asma reports the new formation...
Smart Agenda
Ideologues of two parties spent two months drafting a ‘smart’ accord. Win-win for both involving give-and-take, many ask if this North Pole-South Pole regime...
Gone With The Herd!
Angry young man Sajjad Gani Lone built his political career on controversies. Finally he reached the cabinet as a BJP ally but is unhappy...