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...
Hired To Humiliate
The abundant colleges and teacher-scarce education department has lead the department to use and abuse almost 1900 teachers as contractual lecturer for more than...
Guru Plank
In a remarkable turn-around the unionist parties of Kashmir seem to be brimming with sympathies for Parliament attack convict, Mohammad Afzal Guru, a year...
Raid Round
In the midst of a fierce debate on Article 35A, NIA investigations into hawala funding emerged a much larger development in Kashmir, reports Tasavur...
The Road Scare
Unless the road-keepers and the traffic managers will not sit with the stakeholders and identify the issues to be tackled, driving in the hills...
Cain and Abel in Uniform
Like in other high stress zones, fratricide and suicide has plagued the central forces deployed in Kashmir too. The government has initiated many measures...
Omicron Fears
In anticipation of a possible surge triggered by Covid19’s Omicron variant, Minhaj Masoodi evaluates the state and status of the infection management in Kashmir...
Uneven Alliance
In the broader Gupkar Alliance, half of the candidates fielded by PAGD are from the NC alone. Was this the outcome of PDP’s failure...
Political Winter
With the Lt Governor GC Murmu administration hunting for alternative accommodation to Kashmir’s detained political class, the winter chill is expected to freeze the...
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...
Rekindling Persian Past
Persian literature contains an immense treasure of Kashmiri culture and history almost totally obliterated from the present realm. But, as Majid Maqbool reports, there...
Floating On Hope
It took courage and creativity to transform plastic bottles, empty water-tanks, wood planks, mattresses etc, to float thousands of marooned people to safety. Safwat...
Slipping Control
Stake-holding in Kashmir is diluting fast as everybody is facing its own bit of challenge: the militants, the separatists and the government. So where...
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...
Theed Saviours
For helpless new-mothers who were rescued from G B Panth hospital and abandoned at Zeethyaar Mandir, trusting anybody was a gamble till they found...
