Backyard Democracy
Five of the nine phase-Panchayat polls are over. The exact details of the interesting stories would be known once the exercise concludes, reports Umar...
Designing a Disruption
When the Governor Satya Pal Malik dissolved Kashmir’s dormant assembly, minutes after two claims attempted landing in his Raj Bhawan at Jammu, it was...
Mayor Making
As independents dominated the outcome of Srinagar’s lowest-polled municipal election, the politics reinvented the past to create a future that is in a sharp...
‘Conquering’ Srinagar
Political parties were ‘uninterested’ in the elections for one or the other reason, so were the voters. Finally, when the process threw up ‘winners’,...
2018 Municipal Polls In Brief
The 4-phase elections for the municipal bodies across Jammu and Kashmir concluded peacefully. Authorities had made unprecedented security arrangements that also involved the safety...
A Silent Election
As Kashmir’s two main political parties stayed away from the polls and the militants are tactically enforcing a boycott, 392 of 624 municipal wards...
Blood, Boycott, Democracy
In a bid to see democracy restored at ground zero, Delhi skipped concerns of Kashmir’s two main political parties and ignored an overwhelming situation,...
A ‘Ghost’ Market
In 2003, the Mufti government took over SKIMS, the Gupkar Nursing Home and Dr Ali Jan Shopping Complex from a Trust that the National...
Poller Difference
Polls for urban local bodies were held in 2005 and Panchayats’ in 2011. While the governor’s administration is keen to hold these polls, most...
Sketching 35A
Tens of thousands of rims were printed in reporting, analysing and commenting on the attempts aimed at proving the illegality of Article 35(A) in...
Vajpayee Since 1953
While most of his initiatives as Prime Minister are well documented, Masood Hussain offers rare details – some appearing for the first time, about...
‘Abrogating Article 35(A) Will Trigger Constitutional Chaos’
As a Supreme Court bench is scheduled to decide the fate of petitions challenging the special constitutional provisions which protects the identity of Jammu...
2 Murders, 1 Arrest
Jammu is gradually getting back to the news. A body bag on a day for two days was what kept it on front pages...
Political Grapevine
When a government was in place, Kashmir was desperately waiting for its fall. After it collapsed under its own weight, now the most popular...
On The Run?
After a group of lawmakers rebelled against the party decision-making on basis of kinship and the friendship, the PDP is gradually inching towards course...
