Police say the alleged attempt to assassinate three-time chief minister Farooq Abdullah was 20 years in the making By Danish Mohiuddin At around 10:10 on the night of March 11, the wedding at Royal Park banquet hall in Greater Kailash, Jammu, was beginning to thin into that familiar late-evening rhythm of political gatherings in North […]
Vast emerald meadows surround Yusmarg as sunlight spills across the rolling landscape of one of Kashmir’s most serene mountain retreats. Located around 50 kilometres from Srinagar in the Budgam district, Yusmarg is a high-altitude meadow known for its dense conifer forests, tranquil grasslands, alpine streams, and panoramic views of the Pir Panjal range. Unlike Kashmir’s […]
By Mushtaq Ahmad Dar The developments around Chief Minister Omar Abdullah this week reveal more than routine political messaging. They expose the fragile balancing act at the heart of contemporary Jammu and Kashmir: a government trying to project authority while operating without full constitutional power, and a political class still negotiating what governance means in […]
The growing confrontation between the government and Kashmir’s transporters over the expansion of Smart City bus services reflects a deeper policy concern that the administration can no longer afford to ignore: the gradual erosion of small, locally sustained livelihoods in the name of modernisation. The threat by transport unions to launch an indefinite strike from […]
As AI reshapes education, work, and communication across the world, Kashmir risks being left behind unless it learns to adapt quickly. By Moien Darial On a winter evening in Srinagar earlier this year, a university student sat inside a café near Rajbagh asking ChatGPT to summarise a political science chapter before an exam. A few […]
J&K Bank’s record Rs 2363 Cr annual profit signals a new financial buoyancy in Kashmir By Tabish Khan For decades, Jammu and Kashmir Bank occupied a peculiar position in India’s banking landscape – neither fully comparable to national private lenders nor entirely similar to state-backed regional institutions. It was, in many ways, an extension of […]
By Syed Sameer Ahmad Nazki The punch that changed everything arrived late in the bout. Not wild. Not desperate. Not theatrical. Just precise. A short right hand thrown with the kind of calm that young boxers are not supposed to possess under continental pressure. The Kazakh boxer staggered half a step backward, enough for the […]
By Bisma Rafiq There are moments in Indian politics when election results feel less like arithmetic and more like weather systems shifting over an entire civilisation. This assembly verdicts across West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry were one such moment. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s historic breakthrough in West Bengal. The Congress party’s emphatic […]
The approval allows Paras Health in Srinagar to carry out kidney transplant procedures locally, reducing the need for patients to travel outside the federally administered territory for treatment.
During the visit, Haseeb reviewed infrastructure and sanitation facilities at the commercial complex and held discussions with members of the local traders’ association.
