Society

Women depending on almsgiving by households to feed their families can’t visit them due to Covid-19 crisis. They desperately need help, reports Saima Bhat Creased...

Destitution that comes as a result of disease to individuals otherwise performing well is very difficult to comprehend. Tasavur Mushtaq meets one such case...

The Covid-19 outbreak has destroyed the spring marriage season in Kashmir as families were forced to defer the ceremonies. A few, however, managed taking...

After the initial shock at their area being sequestered for possibly being infested with Coronavirus, it is life as usual for the residents. But...

Unlike Delhi and other metropolis, Kashmir didn't witness much of the exodus of the seasonal non-local workforce. This is perhaps because the host population...

Lockdown is witnessing outpourings of generosity in Kashmir towards poor and needy. Many NGOs, civil society groups are helping feed families during the Coronavirus...

A Kashmiri family adopted an abandoned minor girl in Bangalore and brought her up for two decades. Now, restricted to a hospital bed for...

Areas in and around Mattan in South Kashmir have emerged as the new confidence builders for migrant Kashmir Pandits to return home, reports Umar...

Barely four months after the government justified undoing of Article 370 by asserting that Jammu and Kashmir’s backwardness was rooted in its special status,...

With the drop gates preventing the movement on roads and cell phones blocked, the Kashmir lockdown hit the basic institution of life. Umar Khurshid...

When the society and the government looked down at them and, in certain cases, even families saw them as burden, fate got a couple...

With the infertility rate crossing 15 percent, Kashmir is joining the societies where childless couples are always seeking kids to adopt. Saima Bhat investigates...

A section of the specially-abled population was hugely relying on the smartphones and internet to stay in touch with their families. For the last...

Managers of the Rs 4300 crore Provident Fund of the workers in Jammu and Kashmir’s private and public sector were literally yearning for a...

Watching the farmers facing a crisis in paddy harvesting, groups of well educated youth started helping them volunatrilty and the trend has the potential...