Kashmir: First Land Settlement
Two years after the British "took over" the governance of Jammu and Kashmir and appointed Sir Oliver St John, the first British Resident on...
Kashmir’s New Landmarks
In an apparent overdrive to reclaim the landed assets, encroached upon over the years, the Jammu and Kashmir administration moved bulldozers and created a...
Landlock
The Jammu and Kashmir government’s campaign to retrieve the state land encroached upon by individuals, institutions and communities is at its peak. Even though...
Unfair Job Fairs
Jammu and Kashmir has one of the highest unemployment ratios in India. To overcome joblessness, the government initiated job fairs and invited a lot...
Golden Card’s Silver Lining
With almost 90 per cent of Jammu and Kashmir's population covered under cashless health insurance, the Ayushman Bharat scheme and almost Rs 1000 crore...
‘Fake’ Narratives?
With nearly 10000 employees comprising the migrant Kashmir Pandit Package employees and the reserved category SC employees on protest since May 2022, Lt Governor...
Virtual Jammu Kashmir
To be implemented within five years, the Digital Vision has the ambitious plan of laying a dedicated optical fibre network across Jammu and Kashmir...
The Lease Row
Over the years, the successive governments skipped extending the lease of innumerable land parcels as a result of which hundreds of properties in hospitality...
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...
Messy Corporation
With mud-slinging a routine and no-confidence motions hugely frequent, Srinagar, the Shehr-e-Kashmir, could be the collateral of the politicking within the SMC, reports Yawar Hussain
In...
The Reservation Riddle
With the reservation arithmetic being reworked in Jammu and Kashmir, more than half of the admissions in professional courses, government jobs and promotions will...
Remodelling Universities
A draft bill is making sweeping changes in the system of managing the universities in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Yawar Hussain
The newly formulated Jammu and...
The Home Minister’s Visit
The 3-day visit by Home Minister Amit Shah indicated a possible election but no time deadlines. The rest was routine aimed at creating political...
The Peak Fault Line
Gujjars, Bakerwals and Paharis share the same ecosystem but the traditional social stratification dictated the inclusion of nomadic tribes into the ST fold, unlike...
The Road Scare
Unless the road-keepers and the traffic managers will not sit with the stakeholders and identify the issues to be tackled, driving in the hills...