expand_moreexpand_lessexpand_moreexpand_less
|
 |
ContributorKashmir Observer |
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...
Swami Vivekananda once described education as the force that builds character, sharpens the mind and allows a person to stand on their own feet....
Artificial intelligence has stopped behaving like a future technology. It now functions as an economic force that rewrites business strategy in real...
Jammu and Kashmir’s startup surge has generated excitement inside government offices, university campuses, and business circles. More than a...
By Dr Tasaduk Hussain Itoo The recent death linked to hantavirus has pushed the little-known disease back into public attention, reviving concerns...
International Fibromyalgia Awareness Day arrives every year on 12 May with statistics, seminars and statements. But patients in Kashmir experience...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi Every spring, Kashmir enters the same cycle. Streets fill with drifting fress-famb from female Russian poplars, hospitals see...
By Mohammad Arfat Wani A disturbing design has settled into educational life in Kashmir and far beyond it. Hardly a week passes without reports of...
By Dr. Mushtaq Rather Kashmir once lived by a code called Adab. It guided family life, community relations, respect for teachers, and the behaviour...
A crisis grips Kashmir, unfolding inside homes and in long evenings of study, where teenagers absorb a dream before they understand it. One word...
A familiar scene plays out in classrooms, offices, and family gatherings in Kashmir. Someone sits silently, speaks when needed, and listens more than...
Kashmir’s political class speaks constantly about public welfare, democratic restoration, and people’s rights. Press conferences fill television...
By the time Jammu and Kashmir’s ruling party began attacking Iltija Mufti over her protests on Urdu, the real issue had already started fading from...
By Syed Yunis Bukhari Classrooms across Kashmir and India produce millions of students annually armed with marks, certificates, and rankings. ...
India’s reservation system began with a moral purpose that commanded broad respect. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar envisioned it as a constitutional instrument...
By Shabir Ahmad Ganaie At first light in Shopian, a young father steps out of his home before his children wake up. Morning spares him the hardest...
The drug crisis in Kashmir has moved far beyond police files and political speeches. It lives inside homes now. Parents speak about it in hushed...
Jammu and Kashmir stands before a defining test. The region has spent decades battling discord, disturbance and distress. Another threat now presses...
Modern weddings in Kashmir increasingly resemble public exhibitions where families compete through spending, decoration and spectacle. Banquet halls...
By Dr. Aijaz Ahmad Bhat Every autumn, thousands of families in Jammu and Kashmir perform the same painful ritual. Suitcases fill with woolens,...
By Muhammad Arbaaz Niazii Kashmir has always treated water as more than a resource. It lives inside poetry and prayer. Lakes breathe with the...
By Sheikh Khalid Jahangir Pahalgam has long been one of India’s most popular tourist spots. It is surrounded by the beautiful Himalayas, and it is...
Something is hollowed out in the homes of Kashmir. Parents know it before they name it. A son stops coming home for dinner, and a daughter borrows...
By Tajamul Islam Salroo Almost every entrepreneur today is either talking about CA storage or investing in it. But is this surge driven by real...
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...
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,...
login
who are we?
contact us
qosheapp
