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...
‘Polarised’ 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...
MS Moneybag
Every time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lands in Kashmir, he makes promises to change the socio-economic discourse by pumping resource to manage the deficit....
Another Visit
After his path-breaking initiative at the LoC, Dr Manmohan Singh talked-a-bit with Kashmiri peaceniks and eventually created a round-table to help the moribund Vale....
The Killing Entrepreneur
As counter-insurgency became the main priority of the government, it created its own stars. In the Chenab Valley, far away from Srinagar and Jammu,...
Disaster Mismanagement
More than three weeks after Doda-Kishtwar region was jolted by the first of a series of earthquakes, the government has failed to provide aid...
Reforming Reactionaries!
In the din of ‘rehabilitation policies’, one vital process aimed at reforming the reactionary youth is an underreported effort. Bilal Handoo reports the success...