Mere Occupation
The draft industrial policy being submitted to cabinet for approval later this month may link allotments in the shrunken industrial estates to the actual...
Public carrier, private woes
For SRTC it has been a journey from riches to rags. The state’s prime mover of men and material has been accumulating losses for...
Taxing Times
The pellet-powered government was so shocked by the reaction to new tax regime that it is unable to tell people that it wanted to...
Old Ideas, New Investments
With impressive concessions in hand, as the government is busy planning to get investors from the plains to change the industrial culture in a...
Steely Resolve
Driven by his ambition and entrepreneurial passion, an engineer from Kashmir valley worked on a marsh to set up a Rs 100 crore state-of-the-art...
Missing Moneybags
State and the central governments would massively invest in incentives to the manufacturing sector, a process that GST has interrupted. As the policymakers insist...
A chick and egg tale
His efforts to make valley self sufficient in poultry are not new. Since 1978 when Nazir Ahmad Tramboo’s tryst with the egg started, he...
Dubai Details
The liberal industrial policy has led to the acceptance of around Rs 50K crore investment proposals in less than a year, of which Rs...
A Game Changer
As India and Pakistan were fighting over Kargil heights, a south Kashmir boy takes off for US to study. Nine years later, Khuram Mir...
The Silken Knot
Vested interest, negative policy interventions, market shifts and nature intervened in the unmaking of world’s biggest silk factory in Kashmir. As cocoon production fell...
Female bat better
The lack of a female buddy in cricket can land a batsman in trouble! Well, you can’t score centuries. At least, not at the...
Enabling Better Schooling
Poplars in Kashmir and the people in Pulwama have been acknowledged as key contributors to reducing India’s dependence on imports in managing the pencil...
“A unit set in Kupwara should get more incentives than one set in Kathua.”
Mohammed Ashraf Mir is an entrepreneur dealing with steel and building construction since 1981. He is one of the founder members of Federation of...
More Stars for Kashmir
A five-star hotel conceived by Sheikh Abdullah and businessman Khawaja Saif-ud-din Baba took more than thirty years to complete. With a management contract with...
Inheritance on Sale
The situation was a key factor in destabilising the public sector undertakings in Jammu and Kashmir. Some of the PSUs were pulled out of...
