Highway Halt
At any point of time during winters, Kashmiris form a major travelling population in this part of the world; some for tourism, some for...
Virtual Battles
As thousands of youngsters fight virtually on a noisy online platform, the PUBG has emerged a new crisis for parents. Even the health officials...
A Painful Passage
After many suicides, deaths and heart attacks of the PaK women settled in Kashmir post-2014, there was a first divorce last year. Saima Bhat...
An ITI Fall
The revolution in the Information Technology was key to the fall of two major central government PSUs, the HMT and the ITI in Srinagar....
Living in Refuge?
Despite being UN listed refugees, the Burmese living in Jammu do not see any major shift in the attitude of the host population towards...
Reconnecting South
Post-Burhan Wani, Mehbooba Mufti attempted breaking the ice by visiting two families deep South. Will it help the unionists to reconnect with a region...
Uttarakhand’s Uri Tragedy
Eight labourers were killed when a landslide buried a group of workers implementing an extension of prestigious Char Dham project in Uttarakhand. Faheem Mir...
City Masters
For the first time in 13 years, the city of Kashmir ‘elected’ 73 new faces to manage its municipal issues. Though the region’s two...
Havoc In Mujgund
When the first gun battle of last three decades unfolded in a marginalised locality of Mujgund, it pushed eight families to a new level...
Missing Mysteries
On this World Human Rights Day, the issue of disappeared in the custody would remain a huge question mark over the governance structure of...
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’,...
