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  • Yusmarg – Where Silence Blooms

    Yusmarg – Where Silence Blooms0

    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’sREAD MORE
  • Statehood Shadow

    Statehood Shadow0

    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
  • Protect Small Transporters

    Protect Small Transporters0

    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
  • Digital Divide

    Digital Divide0

    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
  • Banking on Confidence

    Banking on Confidence0

    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
  • Rajouri Rings Loud

    Rajouri Rings Loud0

    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 theREAD MORE