In Bits and Coins

The cryptocurrencies are not the legal tender in India but various companies are making big monies in Kashmir, reports Saima Bhat Within a week after...

Eating Dog Food

Punjabi poultry farmers have used politics to retain Kashmir as their main market to sell used layers and parents’ chicks’ that otherwise is dog...

Major Embarrassment

As Kashmir felt vindicated that the counter-insurgency grid has been using civilians as human shields and sought action, Major Leetul Gogoi was celebrated as...

Driven Over

Last week, Kashmir witnessed another harrowing clip of a killing recorded by some citizen journalist. Saima Bhat visited the family to understand the boy...

Ceasefire In Retrospect

As the political parties in the state are readying to approach the centre for a ceasefire to prevent mass recruitment of youth in militancy,...

New Landmark

It took almost three years from starting investigations to the delivery of the verdict. But as a group of 43 people goes to jail...

Rediscovering Noose

The gruesome incident in Kathua in which a minor was kidnapped and brutally gang-raped has pushed the government to issue an ordinance that makes...

Classroom In Crisis

In 47 days of schooling in Kashmir, classes were open for 24 days only. What it means for parents who spend hugely on education...

Khudwani Encounter

All the militants escaped but the gun battle left behind razed homes and painful memories. Saqib Mir spent a day with the residents in...

Model Self Help

A specially-abled man, fought odds to survive but struggled to create a difference for the people rendered imperfect by birth or the situation. Faheem...

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...

Massacring A Village

Twenty years after eight Kashmiri Pandits were killed, the Sangrampora village is in ruins because both Muslims and Pandits migrated to other places. Umar...

Half Time Over

As the tensions over the Kathua rape and murder are spreading far and wide and the government is planning a cabinet reshuffle with at...

The Dual Rule

As the residents from villages straddling the LoC moved for shelter in Uri, they had tons of tragedies and tales to talk about when...

(Ab)using Antibiotics

With hospitals finding no time to sterilise the operation theatres, the ICU in all the main hospitals is a source of infection, which sometimes...