Government Initiatives February 14-20, 2021
Industrialising Jammu and Kashmir
The Jammu and Kashmir government last week handed over a cheque of Rs 250 crore to Jammu and Kashmir Bank as...
Government Initiatives April 4-10, 2021
Half Budget Released
Lt Gov Manoj Sinha has approved the release of half of the revenue and capital outlay on the budget for fiscal 2021-22...
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...
All About Administration!
As the Tehsil headquarter started functioning at Kreeri, its neighbouring village, Wagoora, took to streets against the move. The matter finally went to the...
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.
Refer to Srinagar
Tertiary health care services in Srinagar are crumbling under the rural rush, as district hospitals are skipping their responsibilities and referring patients to Srinagar...
Depressed Dangerously
Fast life, career rat race, destabilized families and the conflict have created such a mess of Kashmir’s mind that melancholy has become the new...
Blame Game
The recurring energy crisis in Kashmir during the peak winter season has once again bought the state Power Development Department in the lime...
The Kashmir Spillover?
As protests, sloganeering, stone pelting surfaced on mainland India streets, Kashmir’s Standard Operations Procedure (SOP) was literally in vogue with arrests, firing, internet ban...
Politics of poverty
Former deputy chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig struck out his name from proposed BPL list in
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....
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...
“At least 100 army men were there in Kunan that night so one can...
He was the first government official to visit Kunan after the mass rape in 1991 and his report resulted in his immediate transfer. In...
Autumn Outages
In spite of the claims that Jammu and Kashmir will soon have an uninterrupted power supply, the situation is worsening as the winter has...
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...