‘We Are Paying Interest On Interest’

As the GST introduced taxing of the industry for the first time in history, the work environment turned upside down, initially in August 2019...

‘Unlike Earlier Relief Packages, This One Doesn’t Defer But Reduces The Interest Burden Of...

The shutdown of 2019 was followed by the pandemic lockdown and it has created a crisis for the economic wellbeing. It was in this...

‘We Are Fighting Logistical Nightmares and Misplaced Perceptions’

Senior journalist Sajjad Haider, who was elected the President of Kashmir Editor’s Guild (KEG) has studied engineering in Chennai and later journalism at Tehran University....

‘We Want Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh To Be One’

A former Jammu and Kashmir cabinet minister Qamar Ali Akhoon has watched with dismay the transformation of Ladakh over the last year. As one...

‘Examinations Will Be Conducted Off-Line’

Jammu and Kashmir’s Education Commissioner Dr Asgar H Samoon tells Kashmir Life, insisting that the department’s experimentation with remote teaching using a sluggish internet speed was...

‘The Power Games And The Politics Of 1990s Is Too Complicated To Be Unravelled’

Fascinated by stories throughout his life, the great moral booster was when Shabir A Mir’s short story The Djinn Who Fell From The Walnut Tree ended up being...

‘I Am Not A Monk Who Has Renounced The World

After serving one year in jail following erasure of Jammu and Kashmir's autonomous status in August 2019 Shah Faesal has quit politics and is...

‘No Statehood, We Want Article 370’

For most of his political career, Prof Saifuddin Soz has been in the parliament. Recently, he was in the news after the guards stationed...

‘Jammu Will Suffer In The Long Run’

Senior National Conference leader and former minister Ajay K Sadhotra tells Kashmir Life KASHMIR LIFE (KL): So how was the last year of development and progress without Article 370? AJAY...

‘We Are All Victims of History’

PDP leader Naeem Akhter tells Kashmir Life in an interview   KASHMIR LIFE (KL): An officer, politician, then a minister and finally a prisoner. How has been this long...

‘I Cannot Forget That Horrible Day, I Broke Down’

Agha Ruhullah Mehdi is the youngest of the Aghas’ of Budgam who made it big in politics after his father Agha Sayeed Mehdi was assassinated...

The Virus Hunter

At the forefront of the detection and control of the viral outbreaks within and outside the USA in the last more than 20 years...

‘The Situation Is Grim’

The SKIMS Medical College Principal, Dr Riyaz Untoo is managing a major Covid-19 facility. He tells Syed Samreen that the cases are going to increase exponentially...

‘We do not know which strain of the mutating virus is active right now’

Dr A G Ahanger, Director SKIMS Srinagar tell Masood Hussain in a freewheeling interview KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the state and status of the battle against the Covid-19 in...

‘We Need To Prepare Ourselves For The Worst’

Prominent urologist, Dr M Salim Wani was stung by the contagion forcing him to get into nightmarish isolation. Caught between ostracisation and cytokine crisis, he overcame...