Small car, big hitches
The Tata’s small car is luring people at the lowest ebb of middle class, but concerns are growing whether infrastructure and environment in Kashmir...
The illusive road
Deesa Kapran road can not only connect Doda with Kashmir Valley and trigger development in remote areas, it can also provide an alternate link...
Missed the Bus
Not being realised by the policy makers or the stake-holders, passengers using public transport waste a part of their life in the sluggish-paced, unruly...
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...
Overflying the dead
Kashmiris heart beats in Srinagar. But what keeps Srinagar going is a question that politicians seem to overlook. With elections round the corner, Bilal...
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....
Railway Madam
What it is like being a female engineer in Kashmir? From being idolized in the peripheries to jeering city crowds Insha Zargar has experienced...
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...
Compensation Mess
Empty government coffer has put two important road widening projects on indefinite hold in Srinagar. But that was not all. There are hundreds of...
The Banihal Backbone
The overcrowded rail piercing through the rugged Pir Panchal has not improved accessibility only. It has helped Banihal gradually integrate with Kashmir’s socio-economics and...
“Kashmiris should demand connectivity from the state rather than govt jobs”
Dr Dinesh Kumar Tyagi, CEO, CSC e-Governance services India limited tells Saima Rashid that both state government and the people need to do their...
Celebration Simplified
Shrinking free space has fast made community centres and marriage halls find acceptance in an otherwise guarded society like Kashmir. Mohammad Raafi reports the...
Train to Paradise
By: Seema Qadri
Trains, railway tracks and railway stations, whenever I recall them from the long-drawn-out list of memories from my childhood, I would always get...
Apple Eating Highway
As the government in Srinagar is gung-ho over a new highway that will traverse the foothills and connect a vast catchment, the crisis on...
Gone Up
As anticipated there has been no panic sale of properties in worst flood hit areas in Srinagar. Sehar Qazi reports how some of the...
