Aircel: Out of reach
As Aircel, the second largest cell phone service provider controlling 30 percent market in the state closed its shop, following its bankruptcy, it has...
The Low Footfall
After the government evacuated tourists at the peak of a successful tourist season in August, Umar Mukhtar sees no change on ground yet after...
Amshipora Redux?
Days after the sleuths completed investigations in the July 2020 fake encounter involving the killing of three Rajouri labourers, the killing of a teenage...
A Pet Market
In tense Kashmir’s new melancholy, pet raring has emerged as a new therapy and it has started triggering a niche business in an otherwise...
A Sweeping Shift
In anticipation of the tabling of the proposed public universities bill in the Lok Sabha, Yawar Hussain interacted with the academicians to understand how...
The Apple Crush
Kashmir is India’s main apple cart but it is yet to adopt the best market practices that are in vogue in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh. Masood...
Small car, big hitches
The Tata’s small car is luring people at the lowest ebb of middle class, but concerns are growing whether infrastructure and environment in Kashmir...
Unhappily Employed
In last few years, many Kashmiris have been recruited in central paramilitary forces. Some of these recruits share their tales of frustration and disillusionment...
Idealist’s Pragmatism
Though linked directly with budgeting J&K’s economy for various years, Finance Minister Dr Haseeb Drabu’s third consecutive budget in less than two years is...
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...
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...
Sitharaman Budget 3.0
In the third consecutive budget that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented in the Lok Sabha, the numbers are seemingly surging but details lack clarity,...
Uninterrupted Migrations
Srinagar is expanding fast as hoards of rich, professionals and fortune hunters from Kashmir periphery are making Srinagar their home. Raashid Andrabi explains the...
Jammu Kashmir Energy Generation 2022-23
With chilling nights getting darker in water-abundant Srinagar, due to the inadequate supply of energy and massive load shedding, the politicians have raked up...
Meaty Needs
As the faithful Muslims throng markets in Srinagar to purchase sacrificial animals on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha, it is the beauty and elegance of...
