Railway Millionaires
As Railways ventured into Kashmir Valley, it paid 600 crore as compensation for land to people. But as the train chugs, the traces of...
Distorting Srinagar?
As Srinagar is inching towards becoming a Smart City with emphasis on heritage and tourism, a revised Master Plan has drawn a sketch of...
Railways Engineering Marvel: The Udhampur – Katra Rail Link
by HC Kunwar
The Udhampur – Katra new railway line, which was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 4th July...
Train runs through it
The mini-train does not connect Kashmir with other parts of the world, it runs like a crawling caterpillar bisecting the valley plain. Maroosha Muzzaffar takes a ride on the train connecting south Kashmir’s Islamabad with north Kashmir’s Baramulla.
Predicting Right!
Officials are upbeat that after installation of Japan’s hi-tech X-Band Doppler Weather Radar system in Kashmir calamities can be predicted in time to minimize...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Connectivity postponed
While the Northern Railways is adding one more train on the isolated track connecting south Kashmir and north Kashmir, the larger and ambitious proposal...
