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A recent order issued by the Secretary, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), directing gazetted officers to adopt home composting has drawn a...
Dr S Bashir Ahmad Veeri An effective administration derives its authority from the Constitution, its legitimacy from accountability, and its enduring...
Kashmiri has a proverb for the person who tips five kilograms of rice into a saucepan built for one. ‘Muntinie Leiji Paanzu’ describes someone...
By Dr. Virendra Kumar Thousands of sanitation workers keep our cities and communities running daily, often under hazardous conditions. I judge the...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E India’s 94th place in the Sustainable Development Report 2026 is its best since the goals were adopted, up from 99th a...
By Mudasir Ghani Khan When exams come close, most of us ask the children at home the same thing: how many marks will you get? I teach in Banihal,...
By Muhammad Arbaaz Niazi Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Noorani is remembered in Kashmir as a saint whose words have passed from one generation to the next. His...
At a packing-material shop in the Parade market, I asked for aluminium foil marked IS 15392, the Indian Standard mandated for bare foil that touches...
The most telling sentences in the science of 2026 begin with a concession. Artificial intelligence can analyse enormous quantities of information,...
By Mohammad Ilyas Bhat During the morning rush on Boulevard Road in Srinagar, a woman swung her car in front of another and forced it to stop. She...
Between August 29 and September 4, the ten biggest political channels on YouTube drew 94.9 million views, and Narendra Modi’s channel took 13.1...
Uttar Pradesh is the heartland of Indian politics, sending 80 members to Parliament, the most of any state, and 403 to its own assembly, down from 85...
My social-media feed rarely goes a day without a young person’s photograph and the same caption: died suddenly of a heart attack. A face full of...
Kashmir likes to call its mountains a green capital, and the phrase fits. Forests regulate water, wetlands absorb it and store it, and alpine...
A brain scan enters a courtroom like a map enters a disputed territory, useful and incomplete and easily mistaken for the ground itself. Courts...
Survey No. 10 in Levdora, a village in Tehsil Qazigund of Anantnag district, stands in the revenue record at 8 kanals and 11 marlas. Measured on the...
By Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili Official power ends in small subtractions. The office is vacated, the nameplate comes down, the files are closed and the...
A Kani shawl can take a craftsman months to finish, sometimes years, worked bobbin by bobbin on a loom that has changed little since the Mughal court...
By Dr S. Bashir Ahmad Veeri The Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly’s resolution urging the Union Government to amend Section 23 of the Right of...
The case for a Saturday and Sunday weekend is easy to make. Children need hours that belong to neither classroom nor homework, hours to play, read...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi A campus produces wastewater, leaf litter and an energy bill, and it shelters a biodiversity of its own. Students can treat...
By Dr S. Bashir Ahmad Veeri On September 21, 2026, growers, buyers and other stakeholders from across the Kashmir Valley gathered at a Buyer-Seller...
There is an understandable appeal to the idea of a five-day school week in Kashmir. At a time when children carry heavier academic expectations,...
KPMG was conducting an internal audit at Coforge when it flagged lapses in disclosure and governance around the company’s board evaluation. The...
The scene is known to anyone who has lived in a college hostel or stood at an office party. A substance goes from hand to hand, a friendly voice...
Recent sightings in Gurez and the Lidder Valley suggest that the Vuder, the Kashmiri otter, still survives in some of the valley’s waters. The...
India’s latest UPI framework creates an unusual economic experiment. The Finance Ministry says person-to-person payments remain free, as do...
I am writing as a young Kashmiri who has spent nearly twelve years listening to, standing with and speaking for Kashmiri students. I have met young...
By Sameer Ahmad Sheikh I left Kashmir years ago to work in Qatar, and the first thing that struck me about the employment world outside was how...
A speech in Jerusalem, a war in the Gulf, and a sermon in Srinagar do not, on their face, belong to the same story. Politics rarely publicises...
A student from Kupwara, Kulgam, Bandipora, Baramulla or Anantnag can win admission to a college in Srinagar and still face a second, less celebrated...
Think of a graduate in Srinagar, books open at midnight, preparing for the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service exam. She races her own birth...
By Yasir Altaf Zargar A generation of Kashmiri twenty-somethings has stopped waiting for a government stamp to define its future. Walk the fruit...
In a government primary school in rural Rajasthan, ask fifth-graders to subtract two three-digit numbers. The ASER 2022 report found that only 17.3...
Walter Roper Lawrence spent the better part of a decade walking Kashmir villages with a chain, a notebook and a mandate to make sense of who owned...
By Sri Varshith Kumar Reddy E The Reserve Bank of India opened its first blockchain-friendly regulatory sandbox in 2019. It welcomed smart contracts...
In the light of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one family), the glory of the elderly is their insight, their knowledge and their wisdom. In...
A college auditorium can fill up in an afternoon. A notice goes out, attendance is tied to a fest or seminar, and by two o’clock the hall is packed...
By Dr. Ashraf Zainabi A stream does not forget where it once ran. Long before a road was laid over it, and a shop opened on its old bank, the...
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Vande Mataram grew far beyond the novel in which it first appeared, becoming a powerful voice of the freedom...
By early morning, the floors of a Kashmiri home have usually been swept clean. The idea is taught early: “An-nazafatu minal-iman”, cleanliness is...
By Dr. Humaira Gilani By late summer, I can tell the season has turned without looking at a calendar. Children start filing into clinics with the...
There is a particular indignity in watching young doctors leave hospital wards to stand on the street asking to be paid fairly. That is what MBBS...
Deodar trees on the slopes above Srinagar have stood without an axe touching their trunks since December 1996, the month the Supreme Court’s...
Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi has taken a decision that may prove far more consequential for his own political future than for the National Conference. His...
When National Conference leaders walked to Aga Ruhullah Mehdi’s door in 2024 to ask him to contest the parliamentary election, they were not paying...
The BJP’s decision to replace Amit Malviya, who led its digital operations for more than a decade, with Deepak Mhaskey looks like an organisational...
The rumblings between National Conference MP from Srinagar Agha Syed Ruhullah and Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, which had been...
The rivers in Nepal rose without ceremony this season, and swallowed roads, villages and the ordinary calculations of people who had lived beside them...
The first news of a killing has a way of changing the air in a room. Someone reads the headline aloud, a name becomes a face, and questions follow...
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