Blockade Devastation
Switching off the internet and mobile communication has not hit the software development and BPO alone but has rendered thousands jobless in other sectors...
Filling A Void
Regional parties raise expectations and then fail to deliver. The stitching of the BJPDP alliance in 2014 and bloody aftermath in 2016, are key...
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...
Making Kashmir Home
Trafficking women into Kashmir for marriages is an old story. What is new is that not every one of the women lives an unhappy...
The Ladakh Lady
Last week, President Ramnath Kovind handed over Padma Bushan to Dr Tsering Landol. The honour came to her after APJ Avul Kalam gave her...
Welcome To My Home
With hotels and guest houses jam-packed, hundreds of people are making easy money by renting their residential houses to tourists, Nissar Khan reports.
The residential...
D-Day: March 23, 1987
Muslim United Front had worked more on road-shows using the raw emotion of people and not on the process of elections. This contributed to...
Undoing EDI
Second attack in eight months has pushed the EDI into space-scarce that may force it operate from the tents for the time being. In...
Bloodied Talks
In last two and half decades almost every highprofile meeting between India and Pakistan is preceded by a daring militant attack. Shah Abbas revisits...
Drugging A CBM
At a time when PDP is reportedly seeking assurances from Narendra Modi led BJP government to strengthen the cross-LoC trade and travel, the drug...
Pandemonium
Days ahead of the August 5 anniversary, Kashmir’s marginalised mainstream seems in a dilemma. They are unable to strike a balance between Delhi’s requirements...
Ladakh’s Saffron Drought
In 2019, BJP won Ladakh for helping the region break away from Jammu and Kashmir and emerge as a UT. Five years later, the...
War Of Deception
In the murky spy wars, Kashmir witnesses a major switch over by police moles into militant ranks since the police took over counter-insurgency in...
Kashmir’s Maharani Controversy
Jammu and Kashmir’s erstwhile assembly, once termed to be most empowered, played host to a Bollywood crew shooting Maharani, a political thriller surrounding Lalu...
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...