The Kashmir Press

Kashmir press has emerged as a powerful social institution that decides the behavior of this society

Inksight By Mehmood-ur-Rashid

Before enunciating what role press played, and still is playing, in Kashmir, as a social institution, it needs certain qualifications. What comprises Kashmiri society and what can be included as ‘press in Kashmir’. Without making it a labyrinthine digression, the simpler way is to apply the two as More

Mind your language

It's all about understanding the importance of languages

WORDS By Muhammed Mohsin Wani

Belonging gives meaning to our identity. Belonging to a school of thought, to a place, to a community to a family- where there are people that understand us, value our feelings and thoughts although they be unworthy of serious attention. Communities give meaning to these weak and oppressed ideas, More

The name game

Is there really anything in the name?

MINDSCAPE BY S SARWAR

What’s in a name! So I used to say, till that day when I found myself in the small office of the Tehsildar- concerned; conspicuous by his absence, where in front of a clerk’s table I heard a man pleading thus for correction in the name figuring in his Election Photo Identity Card ( EPIC): His More

Out of reach

A week without cell phone was wonderful, joyful

EXPERIENCE By Ahmad Mukhtar

In the present scenario when people often are busy on their cell phones connected with their family and friends updating them every time, it is very hard if you lose your cell phone and the things become much worse when it is in Kashmir.In Kashmir, it is more complicated on one side almost every More

  • Kashmir

Octogenarian woman seeks CM’s intervention to get her last wish fulfilled

Wants To Perform Umrah, Authorities Deny Passport

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Feb 7: Hajra Begum, 80, doesn’t want to die before performing Umrah. But there are bleak possibilities of her last wish being fulfilled as authorities have not issued her a passport. Her family More



  • Srinagar City

7-YR-OLD GIRL CHARRED TO DEATH in Basant Bagh fire

4 KIDS, WOMAN WOUNDED, 5 HOUSES GUTTED

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Feb 8: A seven year-old-girl was charred to death and four other children and woman of a family were wounded when the house they lived in caught fire at Basant Bagh near City centre Wednesday More




  • Jammu

National Conference set to get Dy Chairman's post

Legislative Council Polls

OBEROI EMERGES FRONT RUNNER

Sumit HakhooJammu, Feb 8: Lobbying has intensified in the ruling National Conference, which is likely to get Deputy Chairman’s post in the state Legislative Council, the elections of which have been fixed More



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