Only in Kashmir

Only in Kashmir, does one find stray dogs around a hospital outnumbering the hospital staff and patients Patients Resent Lack of Facilities in City Hospitals Mansoor ul Hassan Srinagar: Patients admitted in various hospitals here had to face a tough time today due to...

The Deepening Divide in Kashmir

The gap between the rich and the poor is widening in Kashmir Inequalities Highest in Kashmir’ Srinagar: Inequalities between the poor and the rich are highest in Jammu and Kashmir even after two decades of economic liberalisation, broadly implying that poor people are...

J&K Has the Highest Illiteracy in Northern States

The State with highest per capita enrollment is also the one with low ilitracy – proof that money (easy money) does not buy success J&K Most Illiterate Among Northern States: Census Report Early Times Report Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir is least literate among...

Fleecing Natives

Fleecing Tourists was always a local mantra, but fleecing locals is new Valley Boutiques Fleecing Customers By Khurram Rasool (Kashmir Monitor) Srinagar: Despite charging much higher rates than the usual tailors, the boutiques of the summer capital of the state have...

Life is Unfair, Government Makes it Worse

Javed reports on the World Braille Day (4th January) and wonders if the “Right to Sight” will ever materialize in Kashmir, much less by 2020 (Mr. Javed Ahmad Tak, 37, was born in Bijbehara in the Anantnag district. He received his schooling from Government...