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BJP WINNING GROUNDS!

BJP’s boasts a three lakh strong cadre in Kashmir and now it is keen to translate its ‘popularity’ into an electoral victory,

Khelo India In The Time Of Corona

In times of Coronovirus when England Cricket Board (ECB) has decided that its players would not shake hands with the Sri Lankan players in the upcoming tournament, the administration in Kashmir is set to hold the First Khelo India Winter Games at Gulmarg.

KABUL AND KASHMIR

As Trump administration finally shook hands with the Taliban in Doha and promised to withdraw within 14 months after 18 years, does the ‘Pakeezah’ moment mean anything to Kashmir? Senior journalist Iftikhar Gilani explains the new milestone in the age-old Great Games

WHITHER JOB?

Kashmir is grappling with rising joblessness, but there are fewer government jobs and recruiting agencies in a limbo

IT KASHMIR'S INTERNET EXODUS

Internet shutdown led to a huge migration, real and virtual. Thousands of people associated businesses preparing competitive examinations relocated out of Kashmir The lifting of blockade has failed to lure them back

UNMASKED

For most of its history, Kashmir remained hidden behind multiple masks, literally and metaphorically. In wake of a looming Coronavirus threat, the people in the Vale are desperate to get a real mask, reports Khalid Bashir Gura in a detailed analysis of Kashmir preparedness to fight a virus that has impacted more than 80 countries and killed nearly 3500 people so far

CHOCKING LIVES

A few decades back who would have imagined that even small villages dotting the picturesque valley of Lolab in north Kashmir, would be flush with garbage and polythene turning the overall sight in an eyesore.

‘A BIG PROBLEM'

Scare that had frightened the minority Sikh community in Kashmir in anticipation of the US president’s India visit exploded in Delhi where communal riots killed 39 people and 200 are injured. But Kashmir somehow managed to get back to front-pages during the visit, for more than one reason, reports Kashmir Life

KASHMIR'S TEHRAN TENSION

As Kashmir’s historical Iran connection is being tested by the cornovirus spread, expert Kashmiri Iranians suggest against flying a few hundred students home because Tehran is capable enough to manage the mess, reports Raashid Maqbool

‘I WANT TO CRACK CIVIL SERVICES NOW'

Barieq Manzoor, a Downtown girl topped IGNOU’s BCom examination. It was beyond her expectations. In an interview with Saif Ullah Bashir, she says her success was the outcome of her ‘smart work’

KASHMIR DEVELOPMENTS AND US POLICY

In anticipation of Donald Trump’s Delhi visit, Congressional Research Service (CRS), a private entity working for the US Congress on key issues, circulated a report Kashmir: Background, Recent Developments, and US Policy in January. Authored by K Alan Kronstadt, the report details the Kashmir happenings after August 5 and envisages longer passages about the US response to these developments starting with Trump’s July mediation offer. The report concludes by flagging the questions that Congressmen are interested in.

THE DOOR OF COMPASSION

Amarjeet Singh Dulat, the former RAW boss, and author of Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years has close friends in Kashmir politics. Dr Farooq Abdullah is one of them. He had made a request to see the imprisoned Kashmir politician and was granted the rare access last week. The Hindustan Times reported that the “quiet, top-secret meeting” to “suss out Abdullah’s mood” in “accepting the new reality of Jammu & Kashmir after the nullification of Article 370, was something that Dulat has not denied. Dulat wrote this brief piece in The Asian Age after the meeting.

CURIOUS CASE OF SHAH FAESAL

After emerging as the poster boy in 2010 by topping the coveted IAS and breaking the psychological barrier to a new avenue of public service, Dr Shah Faesal is living a prisoner’s life in a special jail dictated by the Public Safety Act. Saima Bhat pieces together the young man’s story of intersectoral struggle and success from Sogam to the MLA Hostel

Kashmir's Peter Dinklage Entertainment

Tariq Mir has earned fame and a role in a Salman Khan starrer for being a look-alike of the Hollywood legend, reports Umar Khurshid

‘I pray to God to give me the stature of Bakshi Sahib'

Businessman politician, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari who has emerged as a key figure in Kashmir’s post-Article 370 politics tells Kashmir Life editors, Masood Hussain and Riyaz Wani why he admires Kashmir’s erstwhile Prime Minister Bakhshi Ghulam Mohammad and why he is launching his own party

UT TENSIONS

The binning of Jammu and Kashmir’s hollowed special status and bifurcation of the state into two federally administered Union Territories was primarily aimed at managing Kashmir.

MURDER MOST FOUL

More than 18 months after a 9-year-old boy was abducted and brutally murdered in Gulgam, the police have yet to identify the killers, reports Shakir Ashraf

DYING ART OF PAPIERMACHIE

Dwindling economic utility of the art is forcing artisans in Kashmir villages to give up on it, reports Samreena Nazir

BREAKING THE ICE

For the third time in history, Jammu and Kashmir team reached a knockout stage. Will they pass this psychological barrier, asks Umar Mukhtar

BEHIND FIREWALLS

Initially, it was a battle for coming out of the wrong side of the digital divide. Now with 2G in play, it is the crisis of piercing the firewall. The virtual battle is now involving the law enforces with the VPN developers, reports Khalid Bashir Gura

SAND STORM

At the peak of internet blockade, UT administration e-auctioned around 100 sand blocks along Jhelum river and some of its tributaries. Most of these blocks were bagged by non-locals leaving thousands of families surviving on sand digging for generations without livelihood. It has also started hitting the real estate sector hard, reports Saima Bhat

MODEL MILLIONAIRE

By the end of twentieth century when a low ranking employee was desperately thinking about the future of his seven sons, he made a modest investment in creating a flower nursery. Operating from a south Kashmir village, they now grow countless varieties of flowers, vegetables and fruits and hire 25 gardeners round the year to implement major projects within and outside Kashmir, reports Samreena Nazir

FROZEN LAUGHTER'S

A group of young men were the only source to on-line entertainment in Kashmir. After the internet ban, these well-earning boys are taking medicines to manage their idleness, reports Umar Khurshid

Left In The Lurch

In the Jammu and Kashmir’s downgrade to a Union Territory, most of the autonomous Commissions were closed down. These included the Commission for Women. Saima Bhat met some of the women who are desperately keen to know what happens to their cases that the closed Commission was hearing

WITNESSING THE 1990 CRISIS

Moosa Raza took over as Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Secretary at a time when Kashmir was changing fast. His memoir reveals newer things about the key Kashmir developments, especially the appointment of Jagmohan as governor and the resignation of Dr Farooq Abdullah’s government, reports Masood Hussain

JOCKEYING FOR POWER

When the Home Minister Amit Shah made a historic declaration in the parliament on August 5, many here thought he had not just changed Jammu and Kashmir’s constitutional status but had also pressed the pause button on the region’s chronically layered politics.

CAUGHT BY CANCER

There is no single stop where one can get the exact details of the state and status of cancer in Kashmir because the state lacks single-line registry system. But the data scattered across hospitals suggest that the numbers are up and the malignancy is diverse, reports Saima Bhat

HYPED INITIATIVES?

Between an over-hyped political outreach and a curtain raiser for investment in Jammu and Kashmir, there was a ‘dirty picture’ and a radical revelation in between

DAVINDER DETAILS

Less than a fortnight after his arrest with top militants, new revelations suggest more than what Kashmir knows

BENCHMARKING PHASE

As the hearing of a number of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 resumed, the Supreme Court reserved the order about transferring the case to a larger constitution bench