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Heavy rains struck Rajouri and Poonch on July 19, 2026, and the Dharhali River surged over its banks. The torrent swallowed the New Bus Stand area...
Kashmir’s economy rests on a ledger that few people read. Beneath the GDP figures lies a portfolio of glaciers, watersheds, orchards, alpine...
Crowds rarely gather by accident. They respond to incentives, emotion and information, often all at once. Srinagar witnessed that lesson when...
Voters in Baramulla did something bold in 2024. They elected a man sitting in judicial custody to speak for them in Parliament, betting that his...
A PhD is supposed to be the world’s hardest promise to keep. A scholar spends years chasing a question nobody has answered, then defends the...
Talk to enough founders in Kashmir and you will notice something interesting. Nobody is really angry at the system. They are grateful for it, in...
By Miyan Mohammad Arif Kashmir markets itself as paradise, and some 2.35 crore tourists believed the pitch in 2024. That number, the highest the...
By Farooq Ahmad Khan Politics rarely stands still. Public arguments evolve, priorities shift and campaigns that once dominated newsmill gradually...
One hundred and sixty-eight thousand children in Jammu and Kashmir, between the ages of ten and seventeen, are caught up in drug use. That figure...
By Dr. Mushtaq Rather I signed up as an enumerator for the House Listing Operation expecting spreadsheets instead of confessions. The job asked me...
Benjamin Netanyahu recently said Israel should eventually stop relying on American military aid. The statement projected confidence and a desire for...
A false story keeps spreading about students like me. Self-proclaimed campus activists insist that the Economically Weaker Sections category comes...
A group of public administration students walked into schools across Pulwama district on June 13 expecting to measure a habit. What they documented...
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...
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