14 Years After, The ‘Dead’ Son Returns Home!
Riyaz Ul Khaliq
SRINAGAR
Festive looks wore Srinagar’s Batamaloo in 2002. It was Eid-Ul-Azha and Adil Rashid was preparing for mid-day prayers.
“It was fourth Eid,” said...
Nehru Weds Pashmina at Picturesque Dal Lake
Ubeer Naqushbandi
SRINAGAR
As Band, Baja and Bharaat reached SKICC Wednesday to celebrate a ‘unique’ marriage, the feeling was overwhelming for many. Moments after, as the...
That Young Boy…
By Tasavur Mushtaq
Sleep eludes me from last many nights. Even after hectic days, the evenings are long. Nights are blank. I changed place but...
#NIT: Techno Brawl and Media’s Baja
Bilal Handoo
Behind the closed gates of NIT Srinagar, a sense is building in student community that the current unrest is being flared up by...
Baglihar Breaks Record in Energy Generation
Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR
J&K’s state owned power project at Baglihar has created a new record in energy generation. Against the yearly design energy of 2536.07 million...
36 Years Later, Jama’at to Remember the Mayhem of April 4
Riyaz Ul Khaliq
SRINAGAR
Three and a half decades later, pan Kashmir Islamist organization, Jama’at-e-Islami (JeI) J&K is holding a ‘seminar’ on Monday “to remember the...
Govt Formation: Omar Abdullah Reacts
After Peoples Democratic Party lawmakers elected Mehbooba Mufti as their legislative party leader, former CM and National Conference working president, Omar Abdullah, analysed two...
Zawoora: Why Is This Small Kashmir Hamlet Restless
Saima Rashid
SRINAGAR
Back in 1950, when army’s depot supply took base in Zawoora—a small postcard hamlet in Srinagar outskirts—the villagers had to vacate thousands of...
Captive to ‘Sweet Will’
By Tasavur Mushtaq
Kashmir has a history of being subject to the ‘sweet will’ of its political leaders, its people and the ‘pleasure’ of...
International Day of Forests
By Aamir Amin Nowshahri
The International Day of Forests is observed every year on March 21 to raise awareness about the importance of forests to...
A Pulwama Village’s ‘Stone Age’ Story
Arsheed Ahmad
PULWAMA
With Local bodies election just weeks away and debates about significance of Panchayati Raj (Governance at gross root level) in development of rural...
Has Power Weakened PDP?
KL NEWS NETWORK
JAMMU
People’s Democratic Party (PDP), confronted with an existential crisis of sorts, after the demise of its patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, is missing...
Kulgam Killing: Who was Dawood Sheikh?
Aakash Hassan
KULGAM
Barely 15 hours after forces killed Hizb’s top militant, Dawood Sheikh alias Furkan, in a brief gunfight at Kulgam’s Buchroo village, thousands turned...
‘Dil Ka Maamla’: Your Marriage Dictates Health of Your Heart
SRINAGAR: Your brain may be the main gate-keeper for the release of dopamine, adrenaline and norepinephrine – the three key feel-good secretions that spike up...
Is ‘Nepotism’ Rampant In SKUAST-K? Here Are Two Instances
Zafar Aafaq
SRINAGAR
It seems something is rotten in Valley’s premier agriculture institute, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Kashmir (SKUAST-K). Lately two instances of...
