‘Government fails to fulfil promises’
Muhammad Yasin Khan assumed charge of President of Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) in February 2011, after being a successful trader for 20...
Challenging the Stereotype
Gulshan Akhtar is one of the two female SHOs in Kashmir and heads Srinagar’s only women’s police station at Rambagh. She talks to Aliya...
Numbers Game
The decadal headcount has always kicked up controversies in J&K especially since 1981. Census Commissioner Farooq Ahmad Faktoo in an interview with Ikhlaq Qadri,...
‘Absolutely no confusion’
Kashmir’s top cop Shiv Murari Sahai talks about policing in an interview with Abdul Mohamin. Excerpts.Kashmir Life: How has Jammu and Kashmir police progressed...
The forecast man
The head of the Srinagar Met Office, Sonam Lotus talks about working of the department in an interview with Aliya Bashir. Excerpts.Kashmir Life :...
Memories of a Pandit boy
Siddhartha Gigoo wanted to write a novella, but could not stick to the word count. In a freewheeling interview with Ibrahim Wani in New...
‘Industry should be exempted from curfews and strikes’
Shaqeel Qalander has been head of Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir (FCIK) from 2005, first as a caretaker chairman then as elected one for...
Tales From The Valley
Kashmir’s narratives are coming to fore, with young writers writing for an international audience. After Basharat Peer’s acclaimed memoir Curfewed Night which talked of...
‘Not seeking a direct US involvement’
Umar Farooq, 37 aspired to be software engineer but took over as ‘Mirwaiz’ after insurgents assassinated his father Mirwaiz Molvi Mohammad Farooq in 1990....
‘Saying civilians were killed is a misnomer’
Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai talks about the situation in Kashmir in an interview with Iftikhar Geelani
KL: Violence is raging in Kashmir. Is...
‘Abdullah had agreed to join Congress’
In the concluding part of the interview with Shahnawaz Khan senior journalist Ved Bhasin talks about his first hand knowledge of important Kashmiri leaders
(Sheikh...
Riots changed J&K politics
Journalist Ved Bhasin has completed six decades in active journalism, but the editor of Kashmir Times has had an equal proximity to politics. Politics,...
“Profitability High on Lending Operations in Jammu and Kashmir”
State’s only listed company, the J&K Bank declared a profit of Rs 409.84 crores for 2008-09. This is the highest ever profit that the...
