Srinagar, June 20 -- When Ladakh's administration banned single-use plastics this month and empowered officials to impose spot fines on littering, it sent a clear message: environmental protection beg... Read More
Srinagar, June 12 -- A democracy reveals its true strength at the grassroots. Citizens experience government most directly through village panchayats, municipal councils and local representatives who... Read More
Srinagar, June 5 -- In the densely populated Khanda locality, residents say they are living under constant fear as a 33,000 KV transmission line and two 11,000 KV power lines pass through the village'... Read More
Srinagar, June 2 -- The destruction of 3,500 apple plants in Chadoora deserves swift justice. Kashmir cannot build a stronger rural economy while criminal acts of this scale pass without accountabilit... Read More
Srinagar, May 31 -- Shock and anger have gripped Chadoora's Kultreh area after nearly 3,500 young apple plants were allegedly cut down during the night between May 29 and 30 under mysterious circumsta... Read More
Srinagar, May 22 -- Recent weeks have brought unsettling scenes from several parts of Kashmir. Chinar trees stand cut, pruned into hollow forms, or pressed tightly against fresh layers of concrete an... Read More
Srinagar, May 16 -- The most important development in Srinagar this month did not come from a tourist boulevard, a political rally, or a ribbon-cutting ceremony. It came from a garbage mountain at Ach... Read More
Srinagar, May 16 -- Despite government claims and Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) funds allocated for rural sanitation and waste management, heaps of garbage continue to pile up along the banks of the Suk... Read More
Srinagar, May 6 -- A government letter should feel like a bridge between the state and its people. Many letters in Jammu and Kashmir read like directives handed down from above. Tone matters in public... Read More
Srinagar, April 29 -- A Supreme Court judgment rarely reads like an indictment of an entire regulatory culture. The court's ruling in the Shaliganga mining case came close. Last August, the Supreme C... Read More