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...
Sunjwan Strike
As the rattling guns broke the early morning slumber inside the sprawling Sunjwan garrison in Jammu on February 10, the action and reaction lasted...
Madam X
Whenever a sleaze racked is unearthed in a society cloaked in high morals, the first target is the victim itself. As the investigation in...
Inadmissible Infants
As Kashmir witnesses increased abandoning of newborn babies, the recent incidence of parents leaving ‘Baby Unknown’ at the mercy of dogs outside a Srinagar...
Devious Dispossession
At a time when the BJP-PDP government is loudly talking about the new road encircling Srinagar as a major add to manage infra-deficit, nobody...
Panchayat Gamble?
Amid trade hope that 2018 summer will break the slump triggered by 2014 floods and the 2016 unrest, the ruling BJPDP coalition has announced...
Dismissed Pelters
Hiding stick to pave way for the carrot, the government recently announced an amnesty for the first time stone pelters. But there are various...
Hang Till Death
Twelve years after a six-year-old baby girl was kidnapped, raped, killed and thrown into a trench, the court awarded capital punishment to the convict....
The KAS Case
Kashmir’s participation in the state civil services has remained phenomenally low, historically. This year of the 51 candidates, who cracked the examination, only 13...
Apple Effect
As the Kashmir periphery is witnessing a literal mass conversion of rice fields into apple orchards, the changes manifesting itself by serious ecological tensions...
Dubai Dreams
Job consultancies that have mushroomed in Kashmir are preying on the lower middle class and making quick millions. In absence of a regulation system,...
Autumn Windfall
With more than half of the 150 thousand fresh admissions, every autumn, opting for private sector schools, the costs of educating the new generation...
Revisit Surrendered
As mother’s emotional plea and father’s cardiac attack brought footballer turned ‘militant’ back home, all of a sudden seeking and accepting surrender became the...
Shell Shocked
It has been a decade since the ordinance depots a Khundru went up in flames sending explosive projectiles to every place, in orchards, fields,...
