Posts By Bisma Bhat
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186CrimeChild welfare panel steps in after harassment allegation at Srinagar school
Former students share additional allegations online as MLA calls for a fair and time-bound investigation Srinagar: The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has...
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415Child Abuse
Months after the alleged assault, a viral post sparks police probe in Kashmir
A student’s account of harassment by a trusted teacher has reopened questions about how Kashmir’s schools handle complaints when the accused is...
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240HealthThe silent infection moving through Kashmir households
On World Hepatitis Day, doctors in Kashmir warn that hepatitis B and C often remain undetected for years, with many patients discovering...
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192Jammu & KashmirWhy Kashmir keeps flooding despite a decade of promises
Twelve years after the deadliest floods in Kashmir’s modern history, engineers, geologists and one determined environmentalist say the valley’s rivers are still...
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600BooksShelf by shelf: Inside Kashmir’s sweeping search for forbidden pages
A dispute over two slim volumes on regional history has set off what officials call the largest academic content review in the...
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138EducationKashmir University renews push to reclaim allegedly encroached land
Officials say repeated requests for demarcation and an FIR have failed to resolve the dispute over land adjoining Nigeen Lake Srinagar: The...
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202EnvironmentWhy Amarnath’s ice formation is disappearing faster than ever
A shrinking Himalayan ice figure revered by millions has become a flashpoint over climate change, crowd size and who controls the mountain...
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166Special ReportHow Kashmir’s lost buffer zones bring bears and leopards to doorsteps
As Gaschari disappears beneath hotels, orchards and housing colonies, rising encounters between people, bears and leopards reveal a changing landscape that wildlife...
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93Governance‘I received multiple stitches in each hand’: Mauled by bears, wildlife workers protest for wages after risking lives in rescues
Srinagar: On a sweltering August morning last year, Ishfaq, a 32-year-old casual worker, rushed to Gujjarpati village in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district...
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95BusinessKashmir mutton dealers urge families to postpone weddings amid livestock import suspension
Traders allege unauthorised charges in Punjab have disrupted livestock imports and threatened mutton supplies during the peak wedding season Srinagar: A mutton...
