Now Funds Flowing
After making them organise into associations and resorting to protests, the government overnight turned proactive. As the administration is tasked to ensure all transfers...
Migrants’ Paradise
Large numbers of Migrant labourers flock to Kashmir during the summers. Qazi Ziad looks at the reasons, necessity and impacts of this migration
Every morning...
Taxing Texts
After a stressful and rigorous debate within and outside the state assembly, J&K finally joined the GST regime. With constitutional debate over, the real...
Dizzying Inflation
The steep rise in the cost of goods in Kashmir is making it increasingly difficult for the common man to manage two square meals...
The Nupur Storm
Badmouthing has evolved into a new trend in politics but it always remained an internal sovereign issue till a ruling party spokesperson breached an...
Boar Wells
After decades of absence, wild boars have made a grand return to Kashmir and their herds are a key challenge for sustainable agriculture and...
A season for universities!
The Legislative Assembly passed bills for allowing setting up of three private universities in the nine-day session when all the Opposition had boycotted it,...
Dirty Nexus
The alleged involvement of a top Congress leader in the supply of spurious drugs to government hospitals not only speaks of the failing standards...
Home Alone
A number of Kashmiri girls marrying outside the state find it hard to adopt and embrace new culture, food habits, customs etc and end...
Kashmir’s Kota
Thanks to private coaching centres Parrypora is host to diverse aspirations generating Rs 200 crore business. Zafar Aafaq reports
It is 5:25 pm and uptown...
A Red Hearing?
There were some highly uncomfortable questions that American Congressmen asked its own officials on Kashmir. The hearing by a Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs,...
Omicron Fears
In anticipation of a possible surge triggered by Covid19’s Omicron variant, Minhaj Masoodi evaluates the state and status of the infection management in Kashmir...
Remodelling Universities
A draft bill is making sweeping changes in the system of managing the universities in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Yawar Hussain
The newly formulated Jammu and...
High Density, High Hopes
For the first time in many years, Kashmir is expected to consume a record number of high-density plants this fall. The driving force is...
New Nominations, More Reservations
Lok Sabha passed two bills last week that took the nominated seats in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly to five and included a new...