Till the militancy led the newsroom of the Radio Kashmir Srinagar to shift to Delhi during the 1990s, there was one basic to all the newspaper newsrooms in Srinagar – a radio set. The reason: at around 4:30 pm, the Radio would broadcast a special news bulletin that the anchor would read slowly as if giving a dictation. These were called item khabreh and this was meant for the Kashmir newsrooms where one person would be specially tasked to pen it down. As the wire services were a luxury and available to quite a few, this news bulletin was a key input for the Srinagar newspapers.
With the technology taking over at a ferocious pace in the last 20 years, the newsrooms would laugh over the “good old days” as telegraphic communication was taken over by the telex and then textel, fax and finally to the modem. The e-mail actually changed the media scene and in almost a decade the IT unleashed countless tools that changed the way societies collected, processed and disseminated news.
One of the key topics, during the routine newsroom meetings in recent years, would surround over the fast-approaching death of the print media and the rise of the digital media! This was primarily because the smartphone and the internet changed the styles and systems of consumption of news. There were, in fact, more people consuming news online than in print.
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Before The Kabul Retreat
Described as the ‘Graveyard of Empires’, Afghanistan was always termed to be at peace when it was at war. But the land-locked desert country that was always in turmoil and one of the worst targets of the Great Game suffered immensely throughout, especially in the last 40 years, Masood Hussain writes
FINGERS CROSSED
Almost everybody in academia and politics that Khalid Bashir Gura spoke to, the response over Kabul happens was simple – wait and watch
Parliamentary Committee In Srinagar
The visiting 28-member Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs have had detailed interactions with top civil administration and discussed developmental scenario and people’s welfare measures in Jammu and Kashmir. It is on a 4-day visit. Congress leader and MP Anand Sharma is heading the committee.
MUSIC IN MUD HOUSE
Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in the last few years
THE KABUL SPILLOVER?
Security experts are divided over the possible impact of the Kabul situation on Kashmir. But the dramatic Taliban triumph has altered the region’s geopolitics, for the time being, writes Riyaz Wani
Durga Bhawan At Katra
To enhancing facilities for the convenience of the Vaishno Devi pilgrims, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha laid the foundation for the Durga Bhawan, a high utility pilgrim-centric facility worth Rs 24.4 crore. The facility will accommodate 4000 pilgrims.
Women Empowerment
In the first, 480 talented girls from Jammu and Kashmir were included in the degree and diploma courses of the Pragati Scholarship. Jammu and Kashmir has also got nine scholarships under the Saksham Scheme for Persons with Disabilities.
‘SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE THAT AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT IS THE OUTCOME OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN KASHMIR STAND-OFF'
Foreign policy expert and editor of HardNews magazine, Sanjay Kapoor believes that Taliban 2.0 has more legitimacy unlike in the past as it had signed a deal with the US and negotiated with other countries of the region, but the final verdict can be passed only after it manages ticklish issues involving half of its population, the women
Boredom Is Creative?
Getting bored is not as boring as it gets, writes Azra Hussain
LG In Bangus
Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha inaugurated the Bungus Awaam Mela amidst grand arrangements for village games, exhilarating local performances, and other activities to celebrate the 75th year of Independence.
