Consolidating The Empire
As Kashmir is witnessing unprecedented load shedding, the NHPC is consolidating its empire in the state. With the Uri-II in operation, the hydropower giant’s...
Shaking em Up!
With the executive implementing the court orders on day to day affairs, people in democratic J&K have started imagining severity of life and inertia...
Scary Skiing?
As the new policy makers in tourism sector are planning importing snow manufacturing cannons to produce artificial snow for the ski tracks, R S...
Mission Impossible
The multi-crore NSM scheme was launched to revive the dwindling saffron production in Kashmir. But since its launch the ambitious scheme is in news...
“Our enforcement wing remains in the market round the clock to check black-marketing”
An alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University, Mir Mushtaq, started his stint in government services as district social welfare officer. As his years in office spanned, he was...
Dumping Woes
The debate around Achan dumping site misses one important element: the security of kids living in the neighbourhood from canine dogs. Syed Asma spends...
Dehi Adalat Bill
With around half a million cases pending across Kashmir, Dehi Adalat Bill 2013 is going to ease the burden for sure. But can these...
Right To Dissent
Interestingly Supreme Court’s decision to have negative voting options in upcoming elections hardly excited any separatist leader in Kashmir. Reason! Separatists appartently think that...
Certified Innocence
A firing incident almost coinciding with the Zubin Mehta show, triggered a chain of reactions in entire South Kashmir. By the time cabinet responded,...
Shrinking Dreams
The need for infrastructure to cater huge tourist rush has reactivated land mafia in Pahalgam. This time they have their eyes set on residential...
A Bridged Hope
A young contractor from Pahalgam lives a dejected life after his dream of connecting his village with rest of the world was crashed by a...
Water Woes
In Gade Khud village, just 17 kilometers from Srinagar city everything comes to standstill when a government installed community tap comes to life. Official...
Smells Good
Three men saved Kashmir’s lone drugs research laboratory from becoming history. Recently vacated by CRPF after 25 years the centre is set to revolutionize...
‘Polarized’ J&K
The ideological crack between the three regions of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir has become too prominent to be ignored as the state is all...
Band-Aid Tourism
Gulmarg- the prime tourist destination often presented as a model of development for tourism in Kashmir ironically sans a suitable healthcare centre to cater...