Kashmir: Uproar Returns
BJP disrupted the Assembly twice in seven days, unable to back or oppose contentious motions. Amid the noise and a lot of data revelations,...
Budgam Poll: Agas In The Ring
Budgam heads to the ballot amid dissent, rivalries, and rifts within the influential Aga family. What started as a routine by-election has evolved into...
Kashmir: New Parliamentarians
In the first Rajya Sabha election held after 2019, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference retained three seats while the BJP secured one, triggering...
Kashmir’s Nomination Row
With the MHA asserting that nominating five members to Jammu and Kashmir’s assembly is the sole prerogative of the Lt Governor, a new ‘disempowerment’...
Kashmir: Operation Blame Game
Amid a charged Parliament session dominated by political posturing and nationalist rhetoric, the April 22 Pahalgam massacre and subsequent Operation Sindoor became the centre...
Kashmir Assembly: From Chaos to Conscience
In a break from routine discord, Jammu and Kashmir lawmakers set aside political rivalries to deliver a unified, sombre response to a deadly massacre,...
Jammu Kashmir: A Budgeted Session?
Expected to be stormy, the 21-day budget session in Jammu evoked old legislative memories, but lawmakers felt constrained in voicing the street-level issues and...
Kashmir: A House Demolition
Constituted within months after the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir State adopted its constitution in 1957, the legislative council became history when the Lok Sabha...
Kashmir Assembly: Battling Memory
As the top BJP leader resorted to derogatory remarks against the 1931 martyrs, the Jammu Kashmir assembly’s motion of thanks on LG’s address got...
Kashmir: Stormy Session?
Budget apart, the 3-week Jammu session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly is expected to be significant and noisy, reports Syed Shadab Ali...
Kashmir’s New PSA Debate
Two generations later, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) has pledged to do away with the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act it...
The Jail In Neighbourhood
As the UT administration shifted the detained political class from a Boulevard Hotel to the Lawmakers’ Hostel, apparently for the winters, their families were...
Frozen Photos
With only BJP contesting the Block Development Council (BDC) polls, the politics of Jammu and Kashmir is frozen in time. Though the government indicated...
The Report Card
As Jammu and Kashmir has started the process of sending a new group of representatives to the new Lok Sabha, Muhammad Younis offers certain...
School of Defection
With assembly active and no government in place, various politicians are attempting to get power and are keenly exploring the possible loopholes in state’s...
