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Sweets and Speeches in Kashmir's Urban Hills

Srinagar, Aug. 15 -- By Syed Sammar Mehdi By midday, the hills above Harwan had begun to sound different. People gathered along the town's green slopes, officials moved between them, sweets passed f... Read More


Kashmir's Natural Safety Net Is Disappearing

Srinagar, Aug. 15 -- By Aksa Muzamil Kashmir floods again this year, and the script rarely changes. Rivers rise past their banks, roads vanish under brown water, families climb to rooftops, and resc... Read More


Whatever Was Snatched From Us Should Be Returned: CM

Srinagar, Aug. 15 -- Srinagar- Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday hoisted the National Flag at the main 80th Independence Day function at Bakshi Stadium here and renewed his government's commitm... Read More


J&K's Unfinished Fight Over a 9% Vehicle Tax

Srinagar, Aug. 15 -- By Hamid Rather A driver who moves a car from Delhi, Chandigarh, or Haryana into Jammu and Kashmir should be able to complete the documents without a fight. Instead, that simple... Read More


Shrinkflation in Kashmir: Why Your 10-Rupee Girda Is Getting Smaller

Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- The girda no longer seems enough to get Rukhsana Bhat's family through breakfast. Around the table in her downtown Srinagar home, she has started hearing the same request: a litt... Read More


No Work-from-Home Order for PM Package Employees: Div Com

Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- Srinagar- Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Anshul Garg on Friday said that no order has been issued asking PM package employees to work from home, urging people to rely only on aut... Read More


VDC Member Opens Fire in Udhampur; One Killed, One Hurt

Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- Srinagar- A man was killed and another sustained serious injuries after a Village Defence Committee (VDC) member allegedly opened fire at them in the Moungri area of Udhampur dist... Read More


Kashmir's 1.5 Problem

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


Kashmir Needs to Think Like an Ecosystem

Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- By Mauzam Bakshi Kashmir's mountains, lakes and forests look like separate postcards, but they actually function as one living system. Wetlands hold back floodwater, forests sta... Read More


Kashmir's Recruitment System Is Failing the Young

Srinagar, Aug. 14 -- By Sahil Parray This summer in Delhi, a movement born from an insult became a force strong enough to pull two Union ministers to a negotiating table. The Cockroach Janta Party t... Read More