Moved to greener pastures
Cattle grazers in villages who were a common feature of life in rural Kashmir have given up the occupation with changing lifestyles. Mir Farhat...
Boosting entrepreneurship
in December 2009, Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY) has been NC government’s major policy initiative. Apart from reorganizing employment exchanges into...
Congress Making Inroads
The state unit of the Congress arty was busy expanding youth membership and Rahul Gandhi’s visit was used to trump the party fortunes among...
Fazl Haq Qureshi
Hurriyat Conference (M) executive member Fazl Haq Qureshi was discharged from SKIMS after 25 days in the hospital. Qureshi, who survived a murderous assault,...
Shadows of Past
The last time a US president visited India, 35 Sikhs were killed in a mysterious carnage in Kashmir. With another US president’s visit round...
Cardiac Hospital
It was sheer luck that Dr Fayaz Shawl somehow managed to fly to UK. After creating his unmatched profile in last 37 years, he...
Grand Canal
A canal coming from Ganderbal would once supply water for ablutions at the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and feed fields in its path. Hardly...
Leaking Diplomacy
That it is a huge embarrassment for the State Department is an old story. The US cables leaked by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, apart...
The Transformer
He always dreamed of having his own independent business. Today, Nisar Baba’s manufacturing unit has developed into an award-winning company with uncompromising quality. Shams...
The Muslim Clergy
Conversions to Christianity, the idea of reopening liquor shops and cinema halls and government funding for Madrass as were controversies the clergy and the...
Scripted in pain
A calligrapher with local Urdu dailies, Ghulam Nabi Mahajan was killed after watching his son die at the hands of troopers during a crack...
Reporting On A Razor Edge
Dear Editor,
We, the reporters in Srinagar have passed through hell in last two decades. But we ensured, to our utmost capability, that every incident...
Google in Kashmir
It was that kind of a high profile visit, by the cutting edge technical team of the world’s best known brand and search engine,...
Dried Up
Once witnessing a huge inflow of migratory, many of Kashmir’s wetlands have dried up. Ikhlaq Qadri reports.
At least seven wetlands have lost into...
Inviting Hardship
A simple thing like inviting a friend to your son’s marriage has been rendered not-so-simple as people go to great lengths to choose an...
