Despite enjoying freebies worth crores, lawmakers drain the system by turning defaulters when it comes to pay back. Syed Asma…
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It takes Rs 100 annually to secure VVIPs in a cash starved state. Safwat Zargar reports the largesse of a…

The state still caught in monarch practice of durbar move is safe-haven for its movers and shakers who often fly…

It is been argued since long that politics and business are hand in glove, but in the state of Jammu…

Politics has ceased to be a social service. It is a formal profession now. A generation is keen to upscale…

Legislature is gradually becoming an expensive institution as lawmakers, cutting across party lines, use their position to dictate their costs…

Everybody in J&K politics aspires to be the Chief Minister. It is not only because it is the ultimate what…

The ‘bribe for berth’ case involving Kashmir’s first family is nothing new. It is just a standard practice of how…

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 was just a routine day of business in the history of state assembly. The issue of…

The Governor of Jammu and Kashmir gave his ascent recently to a law against domestic violence six years after the…

Couples resort to court marriages, mostly, to overcome parental dissent. However, the notary registration of marriages, which is only valid…

The BJP won a historic mandate in Jammu – 11 of the 87 seats in 2008 state elections after enforcing…

While the state government has been calling for repealing of AFSPA, it has generally evaded debates on PSA over which…

The government has scuttled a bill aimed at preventing torture by police and punishing the perpetrators. Khursheed Wani analyses why…
With debate over revocation of AFSPA getting a lot of media attention, Kashmir Life looks into the law believed to be the source of gross human rights violations in J&K.