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The Day After NEET Is the Real Test

Srinagar, July 17 -- By Adnan Ur Rehman Close to twenty lakh students sat the NEET examination this year. Eleven lakh qualified. Government medical colleges hold roughly sixty-three thousand MBBS sea... Read More


What Hirpora Taught Me About Saving Kashmir

Srinagar, July 17 -- By Dr. Mubashir Jeelani The road to Hirpora Wildlife Sanctuary challenged many assumptions I had long held about Kashmir's forests and forced me to confront a difficult question:... Read More


Kashmir Is Not a Dustbin With a View

Srinagar, July 17 -- By Dr. Rizwan Rumi Summer sends thousands of us toward the mountains, chasing the same image the tourism brochures sell us: the stillness of Gurez, the green folds of Warwan, the... Read More


The Man Making Waves for Kashmir's Lakes

Srinagar, July 17 -- By Syed Sammar Mehdi The July sun beat down on the ghat as a young man in a white kurta and black waistcoat set out to rally a community around a lake he refused to give up on. ... Read More


A Stranger From Taiwan Sent Me Chasing Kashmir's Seventh-Century Ghost

Srinagar, July 16 -- By Iqbal Ahmad The summer of 2001 brought me a visitor I never expected. A Taiwanese photojournalist reached Srinagar with a single assignment: retrace the path of Xuanzang, the... Read More


Anantnag Set the Pace in Kashmir's Drug Fight. What's Next?

Srinagar, July 16 -- By Dr. Fizah Hamid Six months into 2026, Anantnag Police opened 345 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and arrested 372 people accused of moving contr... Read More


The Last of Kashmir's Doctor-Legislators

Srinagar, July 15 -- By Prof. M. Aslam I still remember the sound of his voice on the rotary dial phone in 1988, saying yes before I had finished my question. I had just returned to Kashmir from CIR... Read More


The Teacher Who Still Lives in Kashmir's Memory

Srinagar, July 15 -- By Mohammad Ilyas Bhat I lately found myself driving toward a town that had once been the village of my childhood, chasing a face I had last seen as a schoolboy. My friend Fayaz... Read More


Kashmir Loses a Minister Who Paid for His Own Gondola Ride

Srinagar, July 15 -- By Farooq Ahmad Khan I met Dr. Sheikh Mustafa Kamal on September 4, 1997, my first day as Managing Director of the Jammu and Kashmir Cable Car Corporation. I drove to his home i... Read More


If Women Grow Kashmir's Lavender, Why Don't They Profit From It?

Srinagar, July 14 -- By Rakshanda Gul Bhaderwah's hillsides bloom purple now, and the postcards write themselves. Twenty farming families in the Raie hamlet of "Chota Kashmir" have swapped maize for... Read More