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Sunday, May 26, 2024
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Special Issue

Career Options after higher secondary

DR SEEMIN RUBAB In Kashmir valley, winter season heralds tuition frenzy. Students and parents are at a loss about deciding the right coaching Institutes. Usually...

Mushtaq Ahmad

When the state government suggested RBI to appoint Mushtaq Ahmad as the chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the bank that it owns,it fetched...

A Vacuum In Life

A cameraman with a local cable television Javed Ahmad Mir was shot dead covering a protest in 2008 August. His widow is battling each...

Lost course

The rivulet with gushing milky white clean waters has given way to a stinking seawage drain and some government offices, malls, and residential colonies...

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...

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...

Fiscal reforms

People of J&K paid up more in income tax that as electricity tariff but the exchequer receives much less that the stat’s needs. While...

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Kashmir Life has completed two years of uninterrupted publication. This issue that you have in your hands marks the beginning of the third year. In...

Boom boom boom . . .

The two-decade turmoil has adversely impacted most business in Kashmir, but for the media industry it provided a boost. Haroon Mirani takes a look...

Visa Power

The US visa regime is grilling and sometimes problematic for some, but hundreds of Kashmiris visit America every year. The leaked US embassy confidential...

Above censure

Despite criticism of his governance from many quarters, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s chair remained safe and secure, thanks of his rapport with the Gandhi family. Iftikhar Gilani reports.

TURNS, TWISTS AND TURBULENCE

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us” Juries and...

Executed

A 13-year-old body is allegedly pulled out of a hospital bed and shot at the gates. And the story remained largely unreported. Shahnawaz Khan...

Jailed at home

If somebody dominated the scene in 2010 at individual level it was Syed Ali Geelani, the ailing octogenarian who is often termed as the...

The Regime of Globalization

ARSHID MALIK Cultural diversity, a product of the vast range of human experiences and achievements is a broad concept based on the connections between people...