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‘Clean Clothes on a Rainy Night’ and a Patch of Earth that Awaits Rashid Mughal’s Body
Family of man allegedly killed in ‘fake encounter’ can’t get answers to the many questions, nor his body to be brought home and buried
Rails, Roads, a Ravaged Earth and the Hunger Left Behind
Nundreshi’s ‘Kus Kari Gongol’ (Who will sow) hangs over a Valley where harvest is being replaced by concrete in a new era of dispossession
JAAC Demands Sweeping Electoral, Constitutional Reforms In PaJK
JKJAAC threatens Long March on June 9 if grievances remain unaddressed before May 31 deadline
Court Declares Enforced Disappearance Victim Dead After 28 Years, But Accountability Remains Elusive
A Srinagar court has granted a family legal closure but the officer named in a police inquiry for the killing has never faced justice
J&K's Vanishing Lakes: CAG Says No One is in Charge
315 lakes have disappeared, a draft conservation law has gathered dust for 22 years, and the government has allocated conservation funds for only six of its 697...
J&K Economy Grows, But the Exchequer Leans Harder on Delhi: CAG Audit Flags Deepening Fiscal Dependence
A new audit report by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India finds that despite an 11 per cent expansion in Jammu and Kashmir's economy, its own tax reven...
A Rule Changed Overnight Derailed Thousands of Careers
As the NMC prepares a fresh regulation on foreign medical graduates, students from the 2021–22 batch say they were never warned and are still waiting for relief
9,209 Water Bodies in J&K Have Never Been Repaired; 23% Are Already Gone
A census that should have reshaped water policy lies unread, its warnings unheeded; two years on, the destruction it documented continues in silence
J&K's Wildlife Crisis: When the Numbers Stop Telling the Whole Story
From children snatched by leopards to farmers losing entire harvests overnight, the human cost of rising human–animal conflict stretches far beyond what officia...
Green Party Adopts Landmark Policy on British Kashmiri Rights
Green Party becomes the first in UK to formally adopt comprehensive policy recognising British Kashmiri identity and calling for a rights-based, internationally...
From the Valley to the Desert: A Gift of Life
Kashmiri diaspora in UAE lines up to donate blood amid West Asia war
J&K on Shaky Ground: What Science Says About a Region Now Classified at Maximum Risk
Jammu and Kashmir has just been placed in the country's highest seismic risk category. A major recent study explains why that classification, far from being an ...
PaJK Protest Movement Issues Election Ultimatum, Threatens June Long March
JKJAAC sets May 31 deadline for government compliance, warns of region-wide lockdown and indefinite sit-in if demands unmet before July elections
Hormuz Choke Threatens South Asia’s Food Security
Experts warn US–Israel war on Iran is driving fertilizer shocks, rising costs, and remittance risks for India and Pakistan
The Cylinder and the Chulha: From the Distant Gulf War to Kashmir’s Kitchens
Caught between a global energy crisis and a broken local supply chain, Kashmir's households are paying more, waiting longer; and some are going back to firewood
A Story in the Rocks: Scientists Decode 160 Million Years of Ladakh's Birth from Volcanoes
A new Indian-Japanese study reads the chemical diary locked inside ancient rocks from Ladakh, and what it reveals about how the world's greatest mountain range ...
'Get Us Out Now': Kashmiri Students Trapped as Bombs Fall Across Iran
After bracing bombs every fifteen, students who cross the borders have no money to travel back home as evacuation efforts remain slow and partial
When Sheikh said Article 370 was not Sacrosanct, Can be Abrogated
An archival reminder and the long arc of a constitutional debate
The Questions No One is Asking About the Attack on Farooq Abdullah
An attempted assassination, a delayed arrest, a strange ‘interview’, and a silence that demands answers
'Most Indians Donate to Religious Bodies and Beggers'
A report by Ashoka University estimates India’s everyday giving economy at ₹540 billion, but most donations remain informal and outside organised charities