Listening to Nabza Bano
Nabza Bano lost her three sons and her home to the conflict
Majid Maqbool
Sixty-five-year-old Nabza Bano stands near a small cornfield where her three-storey house once stood in Sundbrari village, Kokernag in south Kashmir, about 85kms from Srinagar. Lost in a melancholic silence, she points out all that remains of her old home – a few burnt logs.She says two of her More
The child labourers of Drangbal
Chiseling stones by choice or forced by circumstances?
Imran Muzaffar
Sajad Ahmad Dar, a 14-year-old boy, sits all day long under an open corrugated tin-shed in Drangbal, Baramulla, chiseling jagged rocks, one after another. He continues to hammer the rocks till he polishes one. Wiping the sweat off his forehead, he takes a gulp of water and then starts doing it again More
- Kashmir
Court rejects Law Minister’s plea on recording statement
‘Mere Threat Perception Cannot Justify His Exemption From Appearing In Person’
2004 DEFAMATION CASE
D A RASHID
Srinagar, Dec 17: A court here Monday rejected application of the Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Muhammad Sagar seeking his exemption from appearing before it for recording statement. Sagar More
- Srinagar City
Transporters fleece passengers, authorities in slumber
FROM SONWAR TO LAL CHOWK, BUS TRAVEL COSTS RS 8 FOR 4 KMS
MUKEET AKMALI
Srinagar, Dec 17: With the Transport department failing to come up with a revised rate list for distance-wise passenger fares, the transporters in the Srinagar city have started to overcharge passengers More
- Jammu
Omar talking alliance out of insecurity: Mehbooba
ABHINAV VERMA
Jammu, Dec 17: Asserting that the political fortune of National Conference has reached to a stage where it is “hesitant to face the people on its own,” the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba More
- GKeducation&Careers
Giving hope to Kashmir orphans
A young social activist is committed to better the lives of orphans
ENGINEERING SOCIAL CHANGE
ARIF SHAFI WANI
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. But this door never opened for an unfortunate group of children in Kashmir who lost their childhood in past over two More


