Virtual stones, real handcuffs
The crackdown on street protesting and stone pelting has reached to cyber world with police booking people for instigating unrest in south Kashmir’s Islamabad...
From hope to despair
Eighteen months down the line, optimism and hopes have turned into despair for Omar Abdullah, putting a question on his fate as chief minister....
Delhi directives
Situation in Kashmir forced a high level meeting in Delhi chaired by prime minister Manmohan Singh, which discussed a strategy to contain Kashmir unrest....
‘Saying civilians were killed is a misnomer’
Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai talks about the situation in Kashmir in an interview with Iftikhar Geelani
KL: Violence is raging in Kashmir. Is...
June turmoil
For the third consecutive year, the month of June has turned out to be the most turbulent in Kashmir. Khursheed Wani reports
It may be...
Guiding the industry
EDI programme is trying nurture industrial consultancy firms in J&K to boost the developing sector. Haroon Mirani reports.
To plug the lacunae of professional consultants...
Lighting up Ladakh
Energy deficient Ladakh region is getting massive government investment in power sector, which will lower the ecologically fragile region’s reliance on polluting...
Strike over, crisis persists
The employees called off their strike even when none of their demands were met. The government invoked ESMA and threatened dismissals, and the courts...
Pronounced misery
After 14 years of suffering, a Delhi court verdict in Lajpat Nagpar blast case has brought respite to a few Kashmiri families, and aggravated...
PARALYSED STATE
As the confrontation between the government and its employees slumps trade and makes people suffer, KASHMIR LIFE analyses whether a solution to the crisis...
J&K’s PF Kitty Surges to 1200 Cr
R S GullJ&K’s Employees Provident Fund boasts of having a Rs. 1200 crores corpus. But it still has failed in recovering around Rs. 86...
Tourism jittery
Elections, violence rhetoric and global recession can give coming tourist season a set back after the initial impediment of houseboat closure. Haroon Mirani reports....
A ‘polythene free’ initiative
Shazia YousufTaking time out of their studies, a group of young boys busily commune with shopkeepers at Lal Chowk. It is not the bargain...
A BOOM failing is no good news
In power deficit J&K, successive governments have made good decisions and bad decisions leaving it to successors to make corrections. NC government initiated the...
Managing Dal and houseboats
Houseboat operations have been stopped to save the dying Dal, but environmentalists say that is too little too late.
Zubair A. Dar
The Jammu and Kashmir...