A Flawed Decision
The change of nomenclature from Sadr-e-Riyasat to Governor was Jammu and Kashmir’s political disenfranchising. If the arbitrary attempts at classifying J&K Bank from a...
Let’s Fax
by Saima Bhat
As the five-month-long spell of Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir suddenly found it melting under the growing warmth of the state’s...
Bad Investment
In the 1990s migration, the state broadcaster lost eighty percent of its human resource which made running the show very difficult. An alternative emerged...
Apple Tales
As the growers were busy managing the sale of bumper crop amid glut and surging freight and diminishing returns, nature struck a fatal blow,...
‘Conquering’ Srinagar
Political parties were ‘uninterested’ in the elections for one or the other reason, so were the voters. Finally, when the process threw up ‘winners’,...
Power Push
Government’s effort to complete an electrification project ahead of schedule has helped a new group of entrepreneurs to get into the manufacture and value...
Ideas Matter
It took a 10-member jury to travel 23 days across Jammu and Kashmir and listen to the ideas that young boys and girls had...
Manan, A New Wani?
Burhan Wani’s killing in 2016 summer was the key factor in converting a scholar into a militant. Tral teenager used technology to revive a...
Old Job, New Initiative
In order to revive state’s development narrative, the governor’s administration constituted a shell company that will raise Rs 8000 crore from the market to...
A ‘Ghost’ Market
In 2003, the Mufti government took over SKIMS, the Gupkar Nursing Home and Dr Ali Jan Shopping Complex from a Trust that the National...
In Deadly Dilemma
A Uri baker married twice, and in August, his minor daughter went missing and was recovered dead later. Police arrested his first wife and...
Poller Difference
Polls for urban local bodies were held in 2005 and Panchayats’ in 2011. While the governor’s administration is keen to hold these polls, most...
Sketching 35A
Tens of thousands of rims were printed in reporting, analysing and commenting on the attempts aimed at proving the illegality of Article 35(A) in...
A Body Snatcher
Nobody knows about the body-bags he might have filled during his Kashmir posting. But Major Gogoi, who was finally sent to the Court Martial,...
A Raj Bhawan Report
Everybody knew that N N Vohra, an erstwhile point man who smoothly managed the hyper-sensitive state through three unrests as governor has to go...
