Kashmir’s Tech Wars
Momentary disruptions in mobile services triggered a lot of heat and dust as it could hit J&K’s two-third population directly. Apart from impacting security...
Festive Longings
With the dawn of May 26 each year, Kashmiri Pandits massively date Kashmir by turning up for annual Kheerbhavani Mela. Of late as the...
Life is Easy Now
After removal of dreaded Hanwari camp in Charar-i-Sharief life is slowly bouncing back to normal. But can the freed landscape help in healing painful...
Alam in Uproar
At the peak of 2010 mass unrest, police put a million rupees booty on his head. When arrested, cops got Rs 25 lakh instead....
Kashmir’s Crash Lands
Last week’s chopper crash at Safapora was neither the first one nor is expected to be the last air crash in Kashmir. Since 1947...
Tral Trap
Amid claims of Kashmir bouncing back to halcyon days, army sees Tral as the new ‘militant hotspot’. The latest clash saw two fresh militant...
Keeping Them Safe
It takes Rs 100 annually to secure VVIPs in a cash starved state. Safwat Zargar reports the largesse of a system that scrooge on...
JKLF’s Israel Blitzkrieg!
The dramatic abduction and release of an Israeli tourist in early nineties by the ‘powerful’ Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on ‘humanitarian grounds’...
Guerrilla for a different cause
A youth from Khanpora, Baramulla followed the popular footsteps to Pakistan administrated Kashmir (PaK) a quarter century ago, rubbed shoulders with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin...
The city under curfew
Curfew remained enforced over Old Srinagar for the third consecutive day. The statement issued by the city magistrate's office last evening justified the move by...
Curfewed Old City
To 'contain tempers' from soaring too high after a youth from old city's Nawa Kadal fell to the bullets on Wednesday evening, authorities on...
Death Trap
As the army’s authority over the use and misuse of Tosamaidan meadow expired after five decades, the fascinating but tattered landscape is in sharp...
Death at Doorstep
Rangrez family collect bits and pieces from their razed house where two militants were killed in a 22 hour long gun battle, Shams Irfan...
FAROOQ KHAN
History has interesting ways of repeating itself. The day the senior citizenry trekked to Bulbul Nawagam in Islamabad periphery to pay their tribute to...
Unheard Cries
While lethality and legality of pellet gun is still a matter of debate, silent and unending ordeal of victims and their families remain unheard....