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 inREAD MORE
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 fromREAD MORE
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 fewREAD MORE
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 ofREAD MORE