Undoing Vajpayee?
Hopes that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will land in Srinagar and revive the moribund processes ailing Kashmir proved a hoax. Hosts are frustrated and...
Consolidate Now
Baglihar is the game changer in J&K’s energy sector but the gain would go down the drain if the policymakers do not affect the...
Host Mufti, Guest Modi
Prime Minister’s weekend Kashmir visit is not an ordinary one. Excited over Leh polls victory, his arrival follows his parivaar using the cow issue...
“Around 300 kanals of industrial state land is under non-state subjects”
Mushtaq A Wani, the President of Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) tell Saima Bhat that restrictions on communication and movement only hamper...
“A major part of illegally occupied land is under Army in J&K”
Revenue Minister Javaid Mustafa Mir tells Saima Bhat that people should come forward and help the government in identifying land grabbers so that action...
Throttling Rattle
Omar Abdullah government innovated tariff-based bidding and gave Rattle for implementation on the lowest ever prospective tariff. More than two years later Tasavur Mushtaq...
Selective Relief
Those who expected major overhaul in the system post floods must be disappointed. The system that governed the distribution of relief checques runs on...
Governance Gridlock?
In the deluge-hit Kashmir, victims counted on government for revival and rehabilitation. But a year later, both statistic and street voices seem at loggerheads...
Unsustainable Affair
In five years, the J&K government spent Rs 1204 Crore to acquire land for various infrastructure projects. But is this process sustainable for a...
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...