Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- Jammu and Kashmir has reached a strange demographic milestone. Its fertility rate has fallen to 1.5 children per woman, well below the 2.1 needed to replace the existing populatio... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 13 -- Kashmir's universities are beginning to confront a problem they helped create: an education system that can produce graduates faster than the economy can absorb them. For years, ... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 12 -- Srinagar's old city has a problem that goes beyond ageing buildings. The city is beginning to treat historic neighbourhoods as attractions while the people who give them life rec... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 11 -- Kashmir is building at a remarkable pace. Roads are getting wider, tunnels are opening new routes, bridges are appearing in remote areas and government departments are announcing ... Read More
Liberia, Aug. 10 -- President Boakai has given his own Minister of Justice 48 hours to report on his own drug chief. That deadline is the easy part. The harder part - the part that will tell Liberians... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 10 -- Bandipora has done something Jammu and Kashmir's municipalities have avoided for years: it has told households to take responsibility for their own garbage. Deputy Commissioner I... Read More
Liberia, Aug. 7 -- A nightspot closed for a day, its owner facing charges, and a lot of unanswered questions about who else spent their evenings there. If the government treats Private Bar as a single... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 7 -- Countries all over the West figured this out years ago. They noticed talented graduates slipping away, and instead of just watching it happen, they built fellowship programs that ... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 6 -- Kashmir has just wrapped up a climate summit that finally broke the ice on the part often missing from public discussion. People have heard enough about melting glaciers, shrinkin... Read More
Srinagar, Aug. 5 -- A hospital ward without a doctor looks fine until a patient needs help. A classroom without a teacher still has desks and a blackboard, while a road without an engineer's inspectio... Read More