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February 19, 2020

And now Shah Faesal

After Omar Abdullah and Mahbooba Mufti, it is now Shah Faesal. The former civil servant has been booked under infamous Pubic Safety Act which allows detention without trial from six months to…
February 13, 2020

AAP ki Dilli

Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has dealt a stunning defeat to the BJP in Delhi assembly elections. This is the third consecutive win for the AAP since it made its debut…
April 15, 2019

Promises for power continue

As parliamentary elections are underway, election promises by the candidates and their campaigners are all time high. They are promising everything under the sun. National Conference leadership, the state’s key pro India…

Adhan: The Muslim call to prayer

One of the most characteristic — and stirringly evocative — symbols of Islam is the adhan ((literally meaning “announcement,”, also called in Turkish: ezan), the Arabic call to prayer, dramatically intoned in…
February 1, 2019

The “Third Front”

As the assembly elections in the state are speculated to be held simultaneously with parliamentary elections in April/May, a new political formation is likely to take place in Kashmir. Several political individuals…
January 31, 2019

A recipe for self-destruction

In absence of a coherent and strong commitment with peace, the restive Indo-Pak sub-continent continues to be slipping dangerously towards a disastrous path. Last week, the Pakistani Army Strategic Forces Command…
January 30, 2019

Priyanka Gandhi’s formal plunge in politics

Politics in India is a family business. Right from 1947, high profile and aristocrat families have been dominating politics in the country. The Nehru-Gandhian family has been the vanguard in this regard.…
January 29, 2019

Taliban-America peace deal

The inevitable has happened. The mighty America is on way out in Afghanistan. After 17 years of military occupation during which the United States spent trillions of dollars to subjugate Afghans, America…
January 28, 2019

Governor is talking

Jammu and Kashmir Governor, Satya Pal Malik, cry of pain over ‘every killing in Kashmir even that of militants” is something that is being heard for the first time from the corridors…
January 26, 2019

Plight of Indian Muslims

Islam is the second largest religion in India, with 14.2% of the country’s population or roughly 172 million people identifying as adherents of Islam. Over the centuries, Muslims have played a notable…
January 25, 2019

The shame they stand for

After the shameful Lal Ded hospital episode in which a pregnant woman of a far off Kupwara village was denied and she finally delivered the baby on road, a face book user…
January 24, 2019

Rise in air fare

It is usually the price in petroleum that determines the cost of air tickets. But in Kashmir the rise and fall of air tickets is subject to weather conditions. Airline companies are…
January 23, 2019

January 21, the day when it all started

January 21 is the unforgettable day in today’s Kashmir. It was on this day in 1990 that around 50 unarmed civilians were savagely killed and more than 100 others wounded in indiscriminate…
January 22, 2019
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