Businessman with a heart
His customers often leave their contact numbers and identity proofs to get expensive medicines on credit. But in most such cases, he knows, he...
United in adversity
With life literally under a siege in Kashmir people have come out to help each other. Volunteers are braving odds to serve the needy....
Simplicity forced
Curfews and shutdowns have forced Kashmiris to go for simple austere marriages. But not many are complaining. Instead they advocate for austerity as a...
Curfewed adaptation
At 7pm, says Abdul Hamid Beig, one of old city’s best known chemists, I start from Lal Bazaar taking the internal route. “I wait...
Take an evening break
Frequent restrictions and undeclared curfews in the old city is giving rise to an evening life, as people throng shops to buy essentials after...
Bride’s brutal departure
Police has rounded up six suspects to unravel the mystery around the death of a postgraduate girl student who’s body was fished out of...
In Baba’s Nagri
Every year thousands of Gujjars from all over the state congregate at Baba Nagri near Kangan for the annual Urs of Hazrat Baba Jee...
Mr. and Mrs. Abdul Rehman Chechi
What would you do when you don’t have a son, you desperately want, even after five children? Abdul Rehman Chechi did not have the...
Helping to eke out a living
In the absence of a consolidated government policy to help the huge number of orphans and widows in the valley, a local welfare trust...
A matter of honour
There has been an increase in harassment of women at workplace and in public places. But most victims shy away from raising their voice....
Tashakur, Khyber Jan
The small Pashto speaking community of Kashmir is getting a new cultural lifeline as a Pakistan based Pashto channel brings them closer to the...
Emptied Lap
The turmoil has exacted a heavy toll on Kashmir. For each causality reported there is an unreported emptied lap. Shazia Khan meets a few...
Mukhtar Mai gets married
A Pakistani gang rape victim who won international acclaim as a campaigner for women’s rights has married.
Mukhtar Mai wed a policeman who is still...
Rs 10 a coin now
Reserve Bank of India has issued a new bimetallic 10 Rupee coin for circulation even as some people have expressed displeasure with replicating the Christian Crusader’s Cross’ on the coin.
The obverse side has the lion capitol with numeral 10 and year of manufacture. On reverse side, a double line cross with a dot in each pellet of cross and denomination written in Hindi and English around. The cross with the dots is closely similar to very much like the ‘Christian Cross’ on the Gold Coin issued by French king Louis the Pious (778 AD-840 AD).
The obverse side has the lion capitol with numeral 10 and year of manufacture. On reverse side, a double line cross with a dot in each pellet of cross and denomination written in Hindi and English around. The cross with the dots is closely similar to very much like the ‘Christian Cross’ on the Gold Coin issued by French king Louis the Pious (778 AD-840 AD).
WOMAN POWER
For the first time many Kashmiri women are holding positions of consequence in the state administration. Shazia Yousuf profiles 11 of them to get...
