O’ Pir Panchal
After remaining invincible and impregnable for centuries, the mighty Pir Panchal is witnessing enormous developmental activity for a new expressway, a challenging railway line...
Playing With Peaks
With the death of 10 workers under a massive landslide in Ramban, while working on a road project, the focus is back to the...
A Carriage Chronicle
The early twentieth century, horse-driven Tonga became the main public transport for Kashmir. Then the horses would come from Kabul and the carriages from...
Highway Helpers
The road connecting Kashmir with the rest of the world is tricky and unstable. It turns bloody on the drop of a hat. Authorities...
Kashmir’s Mask Manager
At the peak of despair when people were desperately seeking face-masks as the minimal basic defence against the crippling virus, a manufacturer revived his...
Ambulance Chasing
A decade after National Health Mission sanctioned 416 ambulances for Jammu and Kashmir, the vehicles are yet to arrive, reports Saima Bhat
“Hello. Aap ka...
A Model Wasted
Deep down south, the government invested heavily in creating a model health centre. As it is waiting for inauguration, part of the precious equipment...
Bad Times?
In the last 40 years, the Kashmir government changed three sets of clocks on Srinagar’s landmark Ghanta Ghar, but none of them ever exhibited...
Wasted Investment
In Srinagar and in Kashmir periphery, there are dozens of buildings meant to house schools, hospitals and other public facilities, which have come up...
Highway Halt
At any point of time during winters, Kashmiris form a major travelling population in this part of the world; some for tourism, some for...
Generational Spill Over
A Rs 2.13 crore irrigation project approved by the Planning Commission in 1979 was initiated by Sheikh Abdullah in 1981, and was about three...
Old Job, New Initiative
In order to revive state’s development narrative, the governor’s administration constituted a shell company that will raise Rs 8000 crore from the market to...
Transmission Tales
In order to ensure that the existing fragile and inadequate power transmission system to Kashmir has a backup, a REC subsidiary involved one power...
Bypassing Livelihoods
As the people have started enjoying the ‘long drive’ on Kashmir’s first motorway, the alternative highway, saving time and fuel, thousands of businesses are...
Forlorn, Forgotten?
Karnah belt that was flattened by the October 2005, earthquake is in a deep crisis for lack of credible accessibility. Tahir Bhat had an...