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Kashmir grows some of the finest apples, walnuts, and saffron on the planet, and it sends most of that bounty out the door raw. That single fact...
A senior official stood before a room of young founders in Srinagar last year and said something nobody expected to hear at an entrepreneurship event:...
By Farooq Ahmad Khan The schoolboy who questioned Jammu and Kashmir’s education minister during the recent heat wave became the latest target of...
Picture the ‘crime scene’: a boy walks out of his school gate under a sun that could fry an egg on the pavement, sweat soaking through his...
Kashmir’s tourism map has barely changed in decades. Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Sonamarg continue to dominate government campaigns, investment plans...
Kashmir has welcomed millions of visitors in recent years, reviving businesses, creating jobs and injecting fresh energy into the valley’s...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili There came a point in my career when medicine stopped looking familiar. Years spent as a surgeon taught me how to...
Industrial revival in Jammu and Kashmir has long been treated as a banking exercise. Loans turn bad, recovery proceedings begin, one-time settlement...
By Farooq Ahmad Khan Thirty-six years have passed since Kashmiri Pandits left the valley in one of the darkest chapters of modern Kashmir’s...
A 30-something yuppie from Kashmir, a computer geek and a digital nomad, makes money that his parents could not even imagine earning. In the domain...
When Ladakh’s administration banned single-use plastics this month and empowered officials to impose spot fines on littering, it sent a clear...
If the preceding Industrial Revolutions went hand in hand with the nation-state, the ongoing Fourth Industrial Revolution appears to bypass the state...
A visit to a government hospital in Kashmir often begins with hope and ends in exhaustion. The buildings look better than they did a decade ago. Fresh...
By Syed Nissar H. Gilani A few years ago, I translated Sir Francis Younghusband’s 1908 book Kashmir into Urdu. The project became a labour of...
By Durdanah Masoodi & Aabid Rasool Parents often see the warning signs before report cards do. A child who once loved learning begins to switch...
Traffic congestion has become one of the defining frustrations of daily life in Kashmir. Commuters spend precious hours trapped in long queues,...
By Farooq Ahmad Khan Explosive events in the Middle East have revealed, once again, how quickly the standing of nations can change. Countries...
India’s mutual fund industry has entered a remarkable phase of growth. Assets under management have climbed from ₹13.82 lakh crore in May 2016 to...
By Zainul Abi Din Raina India’s Census ranks among the largest administrative exercises in the world. Census 2027 is expected to deploy nearly 30...
Government schools built Kashmir’s early gains in literacy and upward movement for ordinary families. These institutions once reached remote...
By Miyan Mohammad Arif As an advocate, I watch young people stream through our corridors daily. They come clutching files for business registrations,...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi The sharpest political attacks often come from opponents, but the most revealing ones come when critics and allies begin...
India’s public spaces tell the story of its democracy. Streets become stages for wedding processions, political campaigns, religious festivals and...
A few days ago, I was walking from my university to my hostel when a group of girls came into view ahead of me. They were talking among themselves...
The most revealing aspect of the recently resurfaced interview of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah is not the explanation it contains. The revelation lies in...
We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! / Our dried voices, when / We whisper together...
A few nights ago, I found myself confronting a fear that many people know instinctively but rarely describe. My body stopped functioning the way it...
A democracy reveals its true strength at the grassroots. Citizens experience government most directly through village panchayats, municipal councils...
I have listened to radio news for most of my life. Every now and then, a brief news item sparks a larger question. One such report recently caught my...
By Dr. Fayaz Mohammad Let me ask you something. Name one startup from Kashmir that a person in Delhi uses. One app on someone’s phone in Mumbai...
Kashmir’s economy is at a pivotal moment, with per capita income projected to reach ₹1.68 lakh in 2025-26 and growing faster than many northern...
Every year, World Eye Donation Day dawns with a simple question that cuts to the heart of what it means to be human: What remains of us after we are...
Hydrogen has long occupied a special place in discussions about the future of clean energy. Scientists and industry leaders see it as a fuel capable...
The US-Israel war against the Republic of Iran is at an attritional stage. In this theatre of conflict, the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint is again...
A medical consensus published on May 12, 2026 in The Lancet replaced Polycystic Ovary Syndrome with a new term: Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian...
Beekeepers in Kashmir have always worked by touch and instinct. They lift hive lids at dawn, listen to the pitch of the colony, and watch the sky for...
The debate surrounding the Teacher Eligibility Test has become far larger than an examination. It now raises a fundamental question about fairness,...
War extends far beyond the moment weapons fall silent. Its consequences continue through displaced families, damaged cities, and disrupted lives...
Last week, I met a friend in Jammu. He brought along a white French acquaintance. The moment my friend introduced me as a Muslim, the Frenchman...
By Mir Nabeena & S. Iliyas Rizvi Kashmir is losing thousands of hectares of fertile farmland as paddy fields yield to concrete. Far more than...
The universality of Russian literature, its accurate diagnosis of the human condition, the psychotic dark side of human nature, and the jostling...
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