Kashmir: A Season of Rot
Each time the Jammu–Srinagar Highway closes, Kashmir holds its breath. The valley’s lifeline for apples, fuel, and food collapses with every rain, leaving behind...
Kashmir: Highway Hits Harvest
Kashmir’s apple economy is facing historic losses due to the August rains, highway blockages, and disrupted supply chains. High-density orchards, cold storage, and MIS...
Kashmir: The Tech Trouble
Days following Operation Sindoor witnessed the first cyber war. Jammu and Kashmir government, which spent more than Rs 300 crore and emerged as one...
Kashmir’s New Nightmare
As border towns are shelled by Pakistan, Kashmir has an airport closed, and the Jammu-Srinagar highway is interrupted by forces of nature. This has...
Kashmir’s Highway Rescuers
In the perilous stretches of the Jammu–Srinagar highway, where landslides and wreckage are routine, a group of self-taught rescuers has emerged as the region’s...
A Kashmir In Ladakh
At the crossroads of history and geography, Matayan, the only Kashmiri-speaking village in the Ladakh region, stands as a unique cultural identity while bearing...
Bypassed Banihal
With railway lines now connecting Srinagar to Katra and beyond, and a new bypass on the National Highway diverting traffic away from Banihal, the...
A Rising Katra
Decades after connecting to a vast railway network, people getting in or moving out of Kashmir will still have to start from Katra as...
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’s Unsustainable Engineering
Rafique A Khan, a Kashmir-born American development planner discusses the crippling crisis that Kashmir’s ongoing developmental engineering is exhibiting for the future of the...
Kashmir: Tension on The Tracks
Weeks ahead of Kashmir getting full rail connectivity to the rest of the world, the Railway's decision to expand the network within the valley...
Train To Sangaldan
As the prestigious track, a project of national importance became accessible from Baramulla to Sangaldan, Aiman Fayaz boarded the train, inaugurated by the Prime...
Kashmir On Track
With the engineering marvel of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla track about to permit the chugging of trains into Kashmir, the land-locked valley will witness a series...
The JKSRTC Turnaround
Barely a few years after Jammu and Kashmir’s public transporter, the JKSRTC got a new fleet of trucks and buses, and the turnaround started....
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...
