Bloody Sunday
One of the bloodiest polling days in Kashmir’s recent history left 8 dead and over two hundred injured. Zubair Sofi manages to travel through...
Budshah’s Nallai Mar
For ages, rulers in Kashmir have constructed canals to improve life and production. But there is no ruler who could come even closer to...
Campaign Whispers
With massive tensions at ground zero, PDP and Congress candidates pitted for the South Kashmir Lok Sabha seat are busy in a lethargic, low-cost,...
Brides for Sale
There are hundreds of non-local brides in Kashmir. While some marry on their own and live happily, a huge number of them are lured,...
Delayed Degrees
A two year PG course takes more than three years to complete in Kashmir University, leaving students in a fix. Saima Bhat talks to...
New City Set-up
Messed by trash and waste for generations over the decades, capital Srinagar city have grown haphazardly with clear lack of developmental forecasting. As J&K...
Google Gets In
With J&K exhibiting one of the highest cell phone penetration rates in India, data dependence is luring searching giant Google into the state, very...
Yesma’amship?
After the recent reshuffle in the cabinet, albeit at a small level, chinks in PDPs armour were too visible. The story that an unelected...
Retarded Recruitments
With the unemployment being officially considered a major factor responsible for most of the ills in Kashmir, why are official recruiting systems exhibiting a...
Just An Encounter
For last more than two decades, it is quite normal in Kashmir to have an encounter, a gun battle between fugitives from law and...
Rediscovering the State
Insisting that the notion of representative democracy has changed and the fundamental shifts have taken place in the governance systems, Dr Haseeb Drabu was...
The tiger returns
In the 2010 summer, the coalition government presided over a new law that made using water for power generation an economic exercise. Apparently aimed...
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...
Sopore Massacre
In Kashmir’s troubled history January is drenched in blood, literally. Jibran Nazir revisits the gory memories of Sopore massacre that consumed fifty three civilians...
Stop Press
Ruling journalist-abundant party created new precedence by banning a newspaper in 2016 summer. But there were many other incidents that are unlikely to get...
