Hurriyat’s new chief was allegedly master of the “summer unrest” in Valley in 2010

Mufti Mohammad Sayeed of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had taken oath as Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir for the second time on March 1, 2015. He was then...

A red-letter day for women of J&K: Domiciles at last for family

The government of Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday removed the last hurdle for issuance of domicile certificates to spouses of women married outside...

What’s wrong with Congress that it can’t even recognise the tallest Dogra leader?

Nidhi Sharma flew in from Mumbai to be here on Saturday, the day of her father Girdhari Lal Dogra’s 106th birth anniversary. For the uninitiated, the late Dogra was...

Abdullahs are running with hares and hunting with hounds in J & K

On June 24, Prime Minister Narendra Modi convened a meeting of all parties of Jammu and Kashmir in Delhi where he talked of delimitation, elections and then grant of...

Modi is unlikely to have missed one solitary voice which stood apart in the meeting: J & K

It will be some days, rather weeks, before reports about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s All Party Meeting (APM) of June 24 stop appearing in newspapers, and be a...

Why Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti are singing different tunes? What it forebodes for J & K?

Two main constituents of People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), the National Conference (NC) headed by Farooq Abdullah, and People’s Democratic...

Three-Nought-Three Moment for Omar: To stay or quit politics

National Conference (NC) dynast Omar Abdullah is not sure whether he wants to continue in politics any longer. This dilemma, to be, or not to be, is something that...