Kashmir: War Against Drugs
As drug abuse emerges as a major challenge in Jammu and Kashmir, law enforcement agencies have launched an intensified campaign to dismantle cartels and...
Kashmir: Lawmakers Find Justice
A court order freed an MLA. Another gave an MP a week with his dying father. Kashmir's jailed lawmakers made headlines for all the...
Kashmir Lawmakers: Sitting Ducks?
After a gunman nearly killed Farooq Abdullah in Jammu, Kashmir's legislators spent a furious Assembly sitting demanding to know why the administration has stripped...
Kashmir: Roads to Everywhere
Jammu and Kashmir is undergoing its most ambitious road-building drive ever, with Rs 1.22 lakh crore invested across 2,500 km of highways, tunnels and...
Kashmir’s ‘Abandoned’ Students
From a Rajasthan jail cell to the bombed cities of Iran, Kashmiri students are paying the price of a valley that has never invested...
Kashmir: An April In February
Kashmir is witnessing unprecedented February warmth in 2026, with temperatures 9–10°C above normal, early tree blooming, drought, reduced snowfall, and rising concerns for apple...
Kashmir’s Herbal Decline
Kashmir’s medicinal plants are retreating to higher altitudes as climate change alters seasons, threatening biodiversity, traditional healthcare, and centuries of local knowledge, reports Afreen...
Kashmir: A Generation in Waiting
In Jammu and Kashmir, daily wagers’ insecurity, stalled regularisation, skewed reservations, 77,099 vacancies and rising unemployment deepen youth despair, even as credit schemes like...
Kashmir: The Seasonal Journeys
Each winter, thousands of Kashmiri men migrate across India for shawl selling, dry fruits, catering, and labour work, sustaining families amid limited local opportunities,...
Kashmir’s Smoke Free Village
Sheikhgund village in Kashmir’s down south transformed itself into a smoke-free community through collective action, local leadership and national recognition, showing how grassroots resolve...
Kashmir: Rails and Livelihoods
Railway alignment surveys across South Kashmir have sparked anxiety as tracks cut through apple orchards, threatening livelihoods, ecology, and homes, with residents alleging no...
Kashmir: The Mosque Mapping
Jammu and Kashmir Police’s mosque profiling drive, seeking exhaustive institutional and personal data, has triggered widespread unease, with leaders calling it invasive, unconstitutional surveillance...
SMVDIME: A Silent Shut Down
Almost three months after the right-wing parties launched protests against the enrollment of Muslim students at the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical...
Kashmir’s Tourism Revival Hopes
After a tourist season in 2025 marred by violence, Kashmir is looking to stitch the sector back together and regain lost momentum. If the...
Kashmir’s Brown Trout Returns
Kashmir’s brown trout revival blends science, ecology and economics, settling extinction debates while reshaping angling tourism and cold-water conservation efforts, reports Syed Shadab Ali...
