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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 moment a wedding proposal enters a Kashmiri household, a familiar question quickly takes center stage: What does the prospective groom do for a...
A Kashmiri morning begins with a ritual that feels timeless. Before schools fill with students and markets open for business, people gather around a...
By Malik Zahoor Mehdi A disturbing pattern has begun to haunt Jammu and Kashmir. Reports of missing minor children, especially girls between the...
On the morning of May 1, 2026, a notice went up at gas agencies across the valley. The price of a 19-kg commercial LPG cylinder had been revised...
Kashmir knows how to erupt in anger when faith faces insult. Streets fill with outrage when sacred symbols come under attack. Speeches thunder through...
By Dr. Bilal Ahmad Ganaie The Day of Arafah holds deep meaning for Muslims. Families in Kashmir spend the day in prayer, fasting and preparation for...
A mother in Kashmir recently lost her child in the waters of Shopian’s Dubjan area during a picnic. Within moments, mobile phones rose into the...
A young man collapses during a cricket match in Srinagar. A doctor in his early thirties suffers a fatal cardiac arrest after a long shift. A...
By Tajamul Islam Salroo A young woman boards an auto in Srinagar after college. A group of men standing near a roadside tea stall pass obscene...
By Zainul Abi din Raina The rapid decline of the Thajiwas Glacier in Sonamarg has pushed the valley into a defining moment, and the latest scientific...
Kashmir entered spring this year with snowstorms, heavy rain and damaged orchards. Farmers who usually read the valley’s seasons with precision...
The phrase “appropriate time” has become the most exhausted expression in the political vocabulary surrounding Jammu and Kashmir. Ask about...
Amod Ashok Nagpure walked into his new office as Senior Superintendent of Police in Anantnag and made a decision that sounds almost too simple to be...
Kashmir’s apple economy cannot keep running on compensation forms and post-disaster surveys. Hailstorms strike orchards, officials conduct...
By Narendra Modi & Giorgia Meloni The relationship between India and Italy has now reached a decisive stage. In recent years, our ties have...
By Lt Gen. R. S. Reen (Retd.) Ten days on the road changed the way I look at Jammu and Kashmir. I travelled through Mumbai, several state capitals,...
History keeps delivering the same lesson with brutal clarity: wars begin with declarations of strength and end with exhausted governments searching...
By Prof Hamid Naseem Rafiabadi Tehran’s top troupe arrived in New Delhi with a political performance carefully staged for a changing world order....
By Shahid Hakla Poonchi The Jammu and Kashmir administration’s decision to halt Rapido’s bike taxi operations has sparked a debate that reaches...
The latest political storm in Kashmir began outside Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s residence. BJP workers marched in protest as the debate around a...
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