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Wednesday, September 9, 2026
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Governance

The state craft has evolved differently in Jammu and Kashmir over the years. This section offers narratives about the various facets of the governance in between various elected governments and the governors.

Chill pill

Keeping schools open during winter in Kashmir, primarily to compensate the teaching days lost to summer unrest seems funny as annual exams have been...
Transportation is the real mover and shaker of the economy. (KL file Image)

No way for roads

The number of vehicles in Srinagar has increased five times in the last twenty years while road lengths saw negligible growth. Kashmir Life takes...

Home sweet home

The rehabilitation policy, allowing those who had crossed the LoC and are living in PaK to return home is witnessing stiff opposition, with very...

Omar’s counter-strike gospel

Thanks to separatists, Kashmir, these days is enjoying the longest interval of relaxation from curfew-strike cocktail that devoured 2010 summer. The government also contributed...

Road To The World

Fifty thousand people living in a God-forsaken area in J&K may get a chance to access small amenities, hitherto a luxury for them as...

Undoing the wrongs

The state has passed a bill envisaging levying water usage charges on power generation. Though far from reclaiming its water resources bartered away through...

Running in deficit

The state government has fallen behind in almost all developmental works in all regions making the excuse of unrest, for its failure to deliver...

A job nobody wants

Three weeks into New Delhi announcing appointing interlocutors on Kashmir, the government is yet to find a person for the job. Sources say nobody...

Packaged dismay

While the separatists dubbed New Delhi’s eight-point package as an eyewash and bereft of any political initiatives, common man in Kashmir is also disappointed...

A law of lawlessness

With debate over revocation of AFSPA getting a lot of media attention, Kashmir Life looks into the law believed to be the source of gross human rights violations in J&K.

Costly handling

The government needs to be sensitive in its handling of the only listed company of the state, and not treat it in the same...

Renegade Pills

Reports suggest that dreaded pro-government gunmen militia is being revived in Kashmir to counter agitating people. Khursheed Wani reports.

Ousted

In a surprising move, the government has ousted Dr Haseeb Drabu as chairman JK Bank without assigning any reasons. A Kashmir Life report. After 18...

Saroori out, Gul not

R&B minister G M Saroori has been shown the door after his daughter was implicated in examination impersonation case, but chief minister’s advisor Mubarak Gul remains unharmed despite similar allegations. Khurshid Wani reports.

Aiming in the dark

New Delhi has recently hinted at restarting the dialogue with Kashmiri leadership but seems to be clueless as to who to talk to. Khursheed...