In Governor’s Raj
Political parties have failed to cobble up a governing relationship. With governor N N Vohra finally promulgating his rule in J&K, the state expects...
Ungoverned
Verdict is clearly split and it has already been 10 days. Deliberations are expected to take two weeks more. Is anybody around who could...
Wages And Beyond
Legislature is gradually becoming an expensive institution as lawmakers, cutting across party lines, use their position to dictate their costs for the system they...
Democracy’s Kings
Everybody in J&K politics aspires to be the Chief Minister. It is not only because it is the ultimate what the politics can offer...
One Last Time
With elections round the corner, the assembly had a brief six-day autumn session. But it was unimpressive and unruly by all means, excepting that...
Modi Myths
Amid BJPs media blitzkrieg that it would change history by attempting 44 seats in state assembly, required to form the government, Prime Minister Narendra...
Baltal Blaze
For decades local Muslims fed and carried Hindus to the cave shrine. Now when non-local stakeholders started meddling with their livelihood, a crisis erupted....
Plundering Pahalgam
Despite high court banning fresh construction in Pahalgam influential people manage to build huge structures in eco-sensitive areas. Shams Irfan reports the daylight plunder...
A Different Legacy
It was Sheikh Abdullah’s trusted man Bakshi Ghulam Ahmad who replaced him and erased his legacy, although marginally. Hafsa Kanjwal argues that New Delhi...
Lost Prime Minister
After replacing Sheikh Abdullah in 1953, Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad led a popularly corrupt regime. Syed Asma meets the former Prime Minister's surviving wife to...
Modigiri
Modi’s first visit to Kashmir as Indian PM left many riddles unsolved. From angry Pandits seeking separate homeland to separatists smelling conspiracy to state...
Hill Activist
Driven by the passion to fight for corruption free, hunger free and poverty free Jammu and Kashmir, Ahsan Ali from Kargil is the household...
Bleeding Coffers
Cell phone operators making more than Rs 1300 crore a year from J&K have skipped paying service tax by taking recourse to litigation. Officials...
Re-opening Wounds
As Omar Abdullah announced a fresh probe into the 2010 civil unrest that saw more than a hundred youth dead and scores blinded by...
Playing With Marriage!
A dejected employee exploited loopholes in J&K’s existing marriage registration system to blackmail his boss by marrying his daughter ‘legally’ without her knowledge. Syed...