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The snowy peaks of the Himalayas, long revered as symbols of pristine purity and life-giving air, are falling victim to a dangerous, invisible...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi Private school fees in Jammu and Kashmir have remained a source of stress for parents and confusion for authorities for...
By Dr. Satyawan Saurabh The world once again appears to be at a crossroads where the voice of humanity is drowned out by displays of power, threats,...
My mother wakes before dawn. She prays, then she cooks. She began this routine in her parents’ home, continued it in her in-laws’ house, and...
The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly passed the Private Universities Bill on April 4, 2026, with the usual fanfare about progress and...
Before a single word was exchanged in Islamabad, Iran had already spoken. It spoke in fabric. In colour. In absence. The photographs tell the story...
One October morning last year, a yellow L&T excavator rolled into Kralwari village in central Kashmir’s Budgam district and started tearing into...
By Adv Azhar ud din Sofi Forty days have passed since the strike landed at dawn, and the Muslim world still feels the aftershock. On February 28,...
In the coming days, India will be immersed in a festive season, with celebrations taking place across the length and breadth of the nation. The...
Srinagar streets display visible prosperity at every turn. Tile-covered mansions line localities, their gates gleaming, cars parked outside like...
India’s food economy is expanding fast, creating opportunities at home and abroad. At the same time, enforcement data points to the need to upgrade...
India’s direct tax system turned a page on April 1, 2026. After sixty-four years of patchwork amendments and accumulated legal sediment, the Income...
By Muskan Shafi Malik At a time when global tensions ripple across the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow maritime corridor through which nearly a fifth of...
Jammu and Kashmir’s future feels unpredictable, influenced by forces that extend well beyond its borders. The region’s terrain, history, and...
Kashmir stands at the edge of something irreversible. The snows that fed its rivers and filled its glaciers for millennia now arrive late, thin, and...
I first saw the garbage in 2016. I had driven into Poonch, a border town in Jammu and Kashmir, expecting the usual sights: checkpoints, orchards,...
Epidemics do not always arrive with fever and cough. Some travel through behaviour, culture, and the devices in our pockets. A new pattern has taken...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi Anyone who has observed the condition of Kashmir lakes over the past two or three decades will notice that their decline has...
The ongoing conflict in West Asia, sparked by joint United States-Israeli military strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, now stretches well into its...
The heated discussion, marked by emotional outbursts from several lawmakers over personal security matters in the Legislative Assembly yesterday,...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi Humanity is a daily habit grounded in clear thinking, care for others, and fairness in action. Balance takes shape when these...
By Dr. Showket Ahmad Mandloo Centuries of Kashmiri identity flowed through the Jhelum. The river sustained agrarian life, defined settlement...
Srinagar’s Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences once stood as a sanctuary where patients came to heal. Anchar Lake shimmered along its...
By Dr Muhammad Sameer Shafi Siddiqui Donald Trump spent weeks promising to obliterate Iran. He posted threats about bombing energy sites into...
Kashmir runs on strange arithmetic these days. Families with shrinking incomes and vanishing jobs give away gold rings, copper cooking pots, and...
What is US President Donald Trump’s “game plan” after the announcement of a five-day interregnum in his war of choice against Iran? Nothing...
By Girdhari Lal Raina This winter marks the seventh straight year of snow scarcity in the valley. Overall precipitation has dropped 65 percent...
The recent assassination bid was the third such attack on Dr Farooq Abdullah in last 30 years which I remember very clearly for their details. The...
What did U.S. President Donald Trump get wrong after deciding to attack Iran? And what did he get right? What made him attack Iran? And what are the...
A lady professor recently stood before cameras and introduced Orion, a robotic dog, as her university’s breakthrough. The device moved on four legs,...
I remember the exact moment the numbers landed on my desk. Fifty-three Muslim candidates had cleared the UPSC Civil Services Examination 2025, out of...
Something is seriously off with Kashmir’s spring. This past February, Srinagar clocked 21 degrees Celsius. That is ten degrees above normal. It...
On February 27, I attended an Iftar party at a friend’s house, where discussion naturally turned to the escalating tensions in the region. But...
By Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor If we believe that the current aggression towards Iran will change the Persians, we must be deluded. In fact, it will not...
By Muhammad Arbaaz Niazi Missiles strike thousands of miles away and breaking alerts flash across phones within seconds. Life in Kashmir absorbs the...
Headlines race through the world in seconds, while meaning moves through memory, faith, and human ties. March 1, 2026 brought such a moment. Kashmir...
Betrayal is the word that comes to mind. In the early hours of February 28, the United States and Israel launched a ferocious strike on Iran, killing...
By Dr. Manoj Kumar Mishra The US led by President Donald Trump with active backing from Israel developed an operational strategy based on robust...
The global order is undergoing a profound shift, and power equations are changing faster than institutions can adjust. Tensions among the United...
Imam Khamenei’s martyrdom has renewed focus on healing the divide between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Both communities stand on the same five pillars,...
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