In Depth
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5.3KThe post-truth politics of Vajpayee’s ‘Insaniyat, Kashmiriyat, Jamhooriyat’ slogan
When he first announced his three-word solution for the Kashmir dispute in April 2003, Atal Bihari Vajpayee seemingly sounded different from his...
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5.0KAs new dams in JK ‘violate’ Indus Water Treaty, is a ‘water war’ inevitable?
After India and Pakistan locked horns over the controversial Kishanganga Power Project at the World Bank, eight new storage dams coming up...
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4.4K15 days left and no funds: Saffron farmers say all will be destroyed if irrigation doesn’t start on time
Srinagar: Kashmir, one of the only two places in the world where Saffron grows will not be able to produce enough yield...
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8.8KYusuf Jameel: The smiling journalist whose uncompromising reportage made him a legend
Starting his journalism profession with a hard-hitting story against Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq’s Jamia Masjid affairs, Yusuf Jameel went on to become a...
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6.6KThe last Kashmiri guide of VS Naipaul: ‘The writer was brutally honest, generous’
When English singer-songwriters Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were spotted holidaying in Kashmir in the early sixties, Hotel Leeward in Dal Lake...
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5.7KNoora Begum, the mother standing tall and living by the ‘promise’
Noora Begum was yet to make sense of things as a young bride, when tragedies started striking her life, one after the...
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4.8K‘I hereby declare I don’t defecate in open’: SMC to conduct survey aimed at declaring Srinagar open defecation free
Srinagar: As confused parents found a note with their wards, that asked them to confirm that they did not defecate in the...
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5.0KFrom Resettlement Act to Article 35-A: The tale of two women campaigners
While one’s forefathers had purportedly migrated from Kashmir during the Afghan Rule in the late 1700s, another was driven out by the...
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2.3KPDP hits the streets, again: Campaign for Article 35-A or politics of relevance?
After maintaining criminal silence over Article 35-A while in power, PDP is now out to defend it on roads. Between power and...
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4.4KAs D-Day over 35-A approaches, floodgates might open in ‘indifferent’ Jammu, Ladakh
Tensions are rising in Jammu and Kashmir as verdict on Article 35-A is coming up on August 6. While any tinkering with...
