Invisible hand
With its activism failing to get India and Pakistan anywhere near a solution, the US, through back channels, is pushing the two countries for...
Officers trail
After Shah Faesal topped the IAS exam last year, Kupwara seems to have taken to civil services with a vengeance. The backward district saw...
Grassroot governance
The government has announced to hold Panchayat elections in the state. In the absence of Panchayats for 33 years, the state has been losing...
Defence wants more
A hefty hike in defence budget this year, will send the forces shopping for latest weaponry and give it the financial room for modernization...
Rangarajan III
Rangarajan committee has submitted its report on employment generation in J&K. Will the recommendations see implementation or will it meet the same fate as...
Denied rights
Lack of medical facilities and unhygienic conditions inside state’s jails is putting the lives of detainees, especially those with known history of ailments, in...
The latest victim
Authorities have slapped PSA on an 18-year-old, citing a photograph of a masked boy beating a policeman as evidence. The family says, the boy...
Denuding Kashmir
Timber smuggling fuelled by a construction boom is causing widespread destruction to the forests in Kashmir in the absence of a coherent forest policy...
Decades of indifference
More than 100 families purchased residential plots from J&K housing board in Islamabad town in south Kashmir, however, the plots were occupied by army...
Mending Ways … and Means
To do away with the Rs 2300 crore overdraft the state government has entered into an agreement with RBI, appointing it as sole agent...
Immune and offensive
Enjoying the immunity granted to its men under Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the army has consistently sidelined the courts in J&K, yet in...
Commuter’s nightmare
With uncomfortable, overloaded buses, commuting in Srinagar continues to be an ordeal. Ibrahim Wani reports on the travails of commuting in Srinagar.
It takes him...
Mini Kashmir
Centuries ago they migrated to escape bonded labour or persecution, their language is Kashmiri’s only other dialect and their hearts beat for their brethren...
Distortion of History
Archival evidence suggests that Indo-China border dispute have no roots in history and old maps were burnt in the Ministry of External Affairs to...
Summers of Unrest Challenging India
Not to take up arms again represents a major shift in tactics, and one to which political leaders both in Kashmir and in New...
