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Dr Raja Muzaffar BhatGreater Kashmir |
One October morning last year, a yellow L&T excavator rolled into Kralwari village in central Kashmir’s Budgam district and started tearing into...
Wednesday, March 18th 2026 was another important day for people of Beerwah, and me especially. An Expert Committee constituted by India’s top Green...
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,...
Srinagar’s Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences once stood as a sanctuary where patients came to heal. Anchar Lake shimmered along its...
Imam Khamenei’s martyrdom has renewed focus on healing the divide between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Both communities stand on the same five pillars,...
In 2015 the Government of India launched the Smart Cities Mission that aims to promote sustainable, inclusive, and technologically advanced urban...
I can still picture what I saw on December 26, 2025, while walking through Babhar, Keegam, Check Niltrisal, Check Nazneenpora and Kunsoo, villages...
I was thousands of kilometres away in Kutch, Gujarat, when my phone began ringing with emergency calls from Kashmir recently. Villagers from Kralgam...
I have seen what determined leadership can do to a city. Last year, Lucknow moved from rank 41 to rank three in India’s cleanest cities list, and...
I am writing this from Anand, Gujarat, far from Kashmir, but my mind keeps returning to the landscapes I know. The karewas of Pulwama, Budgam, and...
I have walked along the Rambiara River at Trenz in Shopian more times than I can remember. The river has always been a part of people’s lives...
I grew up hearing that Budgam never strayed far from the National Conference. The seat carried the memory of old leaders, family ties and a sense of...
The Jammu and Kashmir government’s long-awaited decision to constitute a Child Rights Commission should have been a landmark in social governance....
In March 2024, India’s Supreme Court delivered what many environmentalists hailed as a landmark judgment. A bench led by Justice Abhay S. Oka and...
The Election Commission of India has announced bypolls for Budgam and Nagrota assembly seats. The voting will take place on November 11, and the...
Peerzada Rayees has spent years tending to his trout farm in Beerwah, relying entirely on the waters of the Sukhnag River. On the night of May...
In March this year, I sat in front of my screen feeling a rare sense of relief. The J&K Assembly was in session and Deputy Chief Minister Surinder...
Every time I visit Srinagar markets, I see the same scene unfold. Butchers handle Rajasthani sheep with practiced ease. Trucks carrying these...
Just a few hours of rain can turn calm streams like Doodh Ganga and Shali Ganga into raging torrents. These tributaries feed the Jhelum, the...
After every disaster in Kashmir, government offices discover a convenient alibi. When floods devastated the valley in 2014, officials in towns...
For two decades, I have used the Right to Information Act (RTI) to track environmental damage in Jammu and Kashmir. I have filed hundreds of...
I was there when they opened the cold storage unit in Zakura. It was a typical July day, the one that wears you down with heat, smell, and...
On June 20, 2025, Pulwama finally got the news it had waited years for: the garbage dump at Dangerpora was shut down. For families living next to...
In March this year, the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) assured India’s top environmental court that it was finally ready to clean up the Achan...
I wasn’t planning to stop at Nengroo Basti that day. It was 2022, and my team and I were in Darwan village, Budgam, to document delays in a rural...
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