Kashmir: An Urban Policy Uproar
As part of the continued interventions in the laws and rules regulating the land resource in Jammu Kashmir, the government proposed sweeping amendments to...
Omar Government: 100 Days Later
Despite criticism from his political adversaries, Omar Abdullah appears to have focused on tackling low-hanging fruit during the initial 100 days of his tenure....
Kashmir: Education Calendar Reset
The Jammu and Kashmir government’s recent decision to reverse the controversial March academic session has met widespread approval. The change, announced by Education Minister...
Kashmir: A Development Dispatch
With too many road, housing and institutional projects requiring too much space in a land-scarce Kashmir, the government said it would not permit fertile...
Kashmir: Reservation Politics
With every job list becoming public, the tensions are soaring as open merit is emerging as the minority stakeholder in the opportunities that Jammu...
Kashmir: Tense Power Corridors
About to be 10 weeks in government, Omar Abdullah is facing a diverse set of issues that will consume its own time to settle....
Kashmir: Teens, Traffic And Tragedy
A crackdown on underage driving across Kashmir, triggered by the deaths of two teenagers in a road accident, has led to the seizure of...
Kashmir’s Reservation Goes to Court
The reservation policy debate in Jammu and Kashmir has reached the courts, with a petition challenging recent amendments to the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation...
Omar Abdullah: A Month in Office
A decade’s delay for Omar Abdullah to return to CM’s Office is slightly a smaller issue than the skirted and shrunken space that his...
Kashmir: Towards A Free Media?
After the protracted silence of the media in Jammu and Kashmir, the Omar Abdullah-led government is keen to restore freedom so that institutions can...
Kashmir: The Resolution Ruses
The Jammu and Kashmir’s dwarfed Assembly's inaugural session was a pandemonium that consumed most of the brief 5-day session and exhibited a clear divide...
Kashmir: Half State’s Hybrid Governance
With a landslide mandate, the Omar Abdullah government’s cold start had no confrontation at its core. However, the ‘hybrid governance’ frequently puts the Civil...
Kashmir: Half State, Full Tension
With a landslide mandate, Omar Abdullah's government took over with a 5-member cabinet amid an ocean of issues and Himalayas of expectations. As the...
Kashmir’s New PSA Debate
Two generations later, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) has pledged to do away with the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act it...
Kashmir Polls: A Curtain Raiser
As Jammu and Kashmir is racing to elect 90 members to the assembly that has lost its authority and sting in the last five...