In Focus
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Displaced KPs: Lives in Shabby Camp Colonies, Ashes Without a River
Thirty-six years after their displacement, the community grapples with collective loss, a fistful of hollow promises and challenges that increase incrementally
It Started With a ‘Harmless Joint,’ but Heroin Addiction Spiraled their Lives Out of Control
Amidst an intensified crackdown on drug abuse, two Kashmiri friends under rehab and counselling speak about the tribulations of drug abuse and the rocky road th...
Frequent Floods Weaken Jhelum’s Embankments: No Dredging Threatens Lives, Livelihoods in Riverside Villages
Since 2014, in repeated floods, embankments in the Veshaw Nallah have suffered multiple breaches, exacerbating the vulnerability of these communities. “Our home...
Aggressive Sandmining in Rambiara Devouring Apple Farms, Farmers’ Livelihoods
Left with a few acres of land with damaged trees after the recent floods, apple farmers in Shopian are worried as their farms are eroding bit by bit from ‘illeg...
Endless Loop of Drug Addiction: Freed of Heroin, Prescribed Pills a Source of High
KT INVESTIGATION: Kashmir Times investigation finds a hidden addiction crisis inside Kashmir’s de-addiction centres, with medicines meant to heal becoming a new...
No fans, stinking bathrooms, serpentine OPD queues and overstressed doctors
The daily saga at Srinagar’s premier health institute, SMHS hospital, leaves many poor patients without proper healthcare or grappling with its stinking mess, d...
Kashmir’s Apple Growers Left in the Lurch as Government Ignores Demands
Fruit production shows a downward trend, farmers blame government inefficiency and policy failures for the crisis
Rajouri Deaths: Specific Neurotoxin Source Still an Unresolved Puzzle
As official silence continues and research remains inconclusive, impatience is seething in the still quarantined village where suspicions grow in abundance and ...
Rural Kashmir’s segregation sheds where everything lands in a messy dump
Poor planning, lack of scientific facilities and public participation in SBM-G scheme obstruct waste management in Rafiabad’s villages.
In a sleepy village where college degrees are rare, Rameez ignites hope with a PG
Steeped in poverty and backwardness, and just one primary school, education is a long, arduous battle of managing finances, grueling journeys in crowded buses f...
‘They Call Us Terrorists': Kashmiri Street Vendors in Delhi Live in Fear of Being Lynched
"As hate incidents go up, their trade dwindles, but livelihood challenges compel them to move out of Kashmir and grapple with the horrors of abuse and attacks i...
In Conversation: An Interview With Pravin Sawhney, Understanding J&K and India-Pakistan-China tangle
Strategic Insights: Pravin Sawhney on Jammu & Kashmir's Future Amidst Regional Tensions
How The Plough Cut Through The Lotus in Pir Panjal?
SRINAGAR: By selecting two ministers from the Pir Panjal belt of Jammu region in his compact cabinet, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has sought to achieve three g...
Rashid reinfuses ‘Kashmir issue’ in polls but analysts say fragmentation of votes will suit the BJP
SRINAGAR: Nearly two years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed to have resolved the Kashmir issue during a public meeting in the Anand district of Gujara...
Will Chenab Valley be a potential kingmaker in J&K’s political arithmetic?
Delimitation, shifting demographics and a faltering NC-Congress alliance turn Chenab Valley’s eight seats into a pivotal battleground that could decide who form...
New Political Fronts in Jammu & Kashmir Struggle to Make Impact
“Political formations allegedly created in Jammu and Kashmir at the behest of New Delhi in recent years and touted as king’s parties are melting away even befor...
News Analysis: Re-shaped electoral boundaries, legal changes will impact voting outcome
“J&K Reorganisation Act, amendments to it and the Delimitation Commission make the landscape favourable for BJP but much will also depend on other factors that ...
Iron-Fist to ‘False Complaints’: J&K Circular Tightens Screws on Complaints Against Officials and Media Scrutiny
A circular ostensibly aimed at protecting ‘honest officials from harassment’ recommends punitive action under 182 of IPC and section 195(1)(a) of CrPC against w...
Unheard Voices from the Line of Fire: Where lull brings feeble hopes but lives don’t change
Youth in Border Areas Demand Opportunities Amid Ongoing Tensions Between India and Pakistan