Heritage Demolished?
The twin-road project to expand the narrow arterial network of roads in old city has altered the demography of the area known for its rich cultural heritage. While the displaced people offer mixed reactions...
Division Dividend
At least a dozen seats were won by BJP, independents and Apni Part because of the infighting within PAGD and its failure to take its understanding with Congress seriously, reports Tasavur Mushtaq
In Kashmir’s tense...
Game of Thrones?
Amid expectations that the political leaders will move out after putting half of the year in custody, the government slapped Public Safety Act against three former Chief Ministers’ and two of their aides as...
The Laila Suspense
MUFTI ISLAH investigates how a murderer was tracked and lured into a trap and the warped sequence of events that led to the massacre of an entire family at a farmhouse in Mumbai.
Near the...
Modi Myths
Amid BJPs media blitzkrieg that it would change history by attempting 44 seats in state assembly, required to form the government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi graced Ladakh, only to devour the party’s chances of...
New Front, Old Frontier
The joining of hands between two former state government officers, engineer Rasheed and Shah Feasal, is the beginning of the tectonic shift and realignment of political forces in Kashmir, ahead of an elusive assembly...
War Of Deception
In the murky spy wars, Kashmir witnesses a major switch over by police moles into militant ranks since the police took over counter-insurgency in 2005. Charged with exchange of money for sensitive information and...
Jail Worries
With the septuagenarian separatist dying of Covid-19 in a Jammu jail, hundreds of families are worried across Kashmir. Now the political class has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to send them home on parole,...
Get Masks Please
Coronavirus is making deeper inroads but Kashmir is woefully short of essential medical supplies, reports Umar Mukhtar
When the news of first positive Covid-19 case in Kashmir broke, Waseem Parvez, 27, left for the market to...
Recycling Autonomy?
In anticipation of the all party delegation visit to Kashmir, various political parties started talking about pushing clocks back in the Delhi-Srinagar relationship. Nothing much happened during the visit but is taking Kashmir back...
The League Mitosis
Peoples League is one of the few parties that claim to be the front runners in Kashmir’s resistance. The emergence of a new faction last week suggests of an apparent weak foundations and a...
Partners In Crime
Separated allies of doomed BJPDP coalition have resorted to a new wave of allegations and counter-accusations. But people are unlikely to fall prey to their renewed engagement by pointing fingers at each other after...
Rediscovering the State
Insisting that the notion of representative democracy has changed and the fundamental shifts have taken place in the governance systems, Dr Haseeb Drabu was seen pushing his ideas of empowering the lawmaker to the...
Jail Unrest?
Days after a fight between the jail officials and the prisoners in central jail Srinagar, a series of interventions started to unravel the real reason behind the crisis, reports Saima Bhat
A loud bang broke...