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Monday, March 25, 2024
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Tourism

Plundering Pahalgam

Despite high court banning fresh construction in Pahalgam influential people manage to build huge structures in eco-sensitive areas. Shams Irfan reports the daylight plunder...

Yatra: A Tradition Compromised

Yearly Amarnath Yatra was small, quick affair that the government would facilitate with the help of clergy. It was S K Sinha, the shrine...

Enchanting Meadow

Situated 47 km away from Srinagar in Budgam district, Yusmarg is known for its grassy pastures, dense forests full of pine trees and splendid snow capped mountains. Within commutable...

Funding Faith

Money collected from different sources including tax on liquor sales is used to fund state’s ambitious plan of renovation and repair of religious places...

Good faith, bad policy  

Though the state high court has kept in view the sensitive environment of Jammu and Kashmir while ordering to seal hundreds of hotels across...

A Perfect Getaway

With winters extending up to May, Indian budget tourists find Kashmir a perfect getaway from scorching heat of the plains. But the skyrocketing airfare...

Can Spring be far behind!

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming, Pablo Neruda once said. Spring has indeed arrived in the valley with flowers in full...

In Pictures: Placid Scenes

As people were complaining about water-logged roads, power cuts and network jams owing to fresh snowfall in the valley, Bilal Bahadur visits around and...

In Pictures: Valley in White

In the first week of March, the shining sun had set heads into anticipation that spring is round the corner. But as the fresh...

“Street shows across globe help in assuring tour operators that Kashmir is safe to...

Tourism department is hopeful that street shows in foreign countries will help bring back high spending foreign tourists back to Kashmir.  Director tourism, Talat...

Drowning ‘Dreams’

With government ban in force on the making of new houseboats, a gradual decline in manual workforce associated with the craft has been noticed....

White Fall

Bilal Bahadur captures the fresh snowfall in Kashmir.

White Blanket

On the last day of 2013, Kashmir woke up to a pleasant surprise. The seasons's first heavy snowfall draped everything white. Bilal Bahadur captures some white...

Aatish-E-Chinar: A Photo Feature

One of the famous couplets of the poet of East, Allama Iqbal reads: Jis Khaak Ke Zameer Main Ho Aatish-E-Chinar, Mumkin Nahin Ke Sard Ho...

Snow@Gulmarg: A Photo Feature

The famed meadow of Kashmir Valley, Gulmarg, received season's first snowfall this week. As the meadow slowly slid under white carpet, people present there...