Omar Abdullah
The scion of the Abdullah family and the state’s youngest ever chief minister, Omar Abdullah, completed a tumultuous three years in power this week....
An Elusive Election
Trans-LoC trade and travel has remained the only initiative with some consequence on the Kashmir front between India and Pakistan. After it took off,...
Ali Mohammad Sagar
Senior minister in the state government and a family confidante of Abdullahs, Ali Mohammad Sagar, escaped a bid on his life last week. Unidentified...
Ghulam Nabi Fai
Decades after being one of the most influential Kashmiri expatriates in the USA, the erstwhile Budgam resident Ghulam Nabi Mir aka Fai has pleaded...
Gh Nabi Ratanpuri
While it had just bought a bit of peace after gagging the party chief spokesman, NC is experiencing new tremors – this time by...
Justice (retd) Bilal Nazki
The trend of judges remaining reticent seems to be changing. While Justice (retd) Bashir Amad Kirmani is seen in a number of public gatherings,...
Mir Waiz Umer Farooq
At the peak of controversy triggered by Wikileaks, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq took off and spent many weeks aboard. Back home, he issued intermittent statements...
Dr Mustafa Kamal
Sheikh Nazir Ahmad, ruling NCs secretary general who holds all the secrets of the party and the family is not doing well for a...
Balwant Singh Mankotia
This National Panthers Party lawmaker is in news these days. He is the petitioner in the apex court application filed by Prof Bhim Singh...
Prof Saifud Din Soz
Ever since he was sent home as president of the state Congress Prof Saif-Ud-Din Soz stuck to his ‘gentleman’ image. Fighting divisions within and...
Syed Bashir ud din Ahmad
For a long time, the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has been termed a toothless tiger. There has not been any serious effort to...
Prashant Bhushan
A leading apex court lawyer, Prashant Bushan is a well respect social activist who is also member of the Anna Hazare team. Though he...
Mohammad Akbar Lone
State legislative assembly speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone apologized on TV channels for his un-publishable utterances in the house and ordered expunging of the same...
Engineer Rashid
MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid, widely known as Engineer Rashid, was in news for moving a resolution in the state assembly seeking clemency to the...
Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry
He had come to Kashmir to attend a marriage ceremony but his visit became talk of the town. Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry spent three busy...
