Something is seriously wrong, unless society admits, such crimes will continue
ACID ATTACK ON WOMEN…
An acid attack on a girl in Srinagar, last week, has shaken everyone in the Valley. The heinous crime is yet another example of the pathetic situation that Kashmir’s womenfolk are facing here. Unfortunately, an unprecedented rise in the crimes against women —such as physical, emotional, or psychological violence, sexual abuse, blackmailing, harassment. online abuse, […]
Domestic Violence – A challenge that needs to be taken head-on
On January 18, people in south Kashmir’s Shelipora Achabal took to streets to protest an alleged ‘murder’ of a 30-year-old woman by her in-laws over the dowry issue. The in-laws of the deceased woman strongly deny the charges. Presently, the matter is under police investigation and no conclusion can be drawn at this point in […]
Controlled import, proper taxation could ensure an even field
Kashmir’s apple industry —which harvests worth Rs 10,000 crore crops annually, provides livelihood to roughly 2 million people, and adds more than eight percent to the GDP of Union Territory (UT) — is under a great threat due to the flooding of untaxed Iranian apple into the Indian market. Given the US sanctions on Iran, […]
‘Future of Urdu media lies in going digital’
More about Urdu Press in J&K …
As the Urdu newspapers in Jammu and Kashmir, for quite a long time, are grappling with the existential crisis caused by certain reasons (many of them discussed by the experts ‘Monday Read’ on January 3, 2021 in Kashmir Images), the stakeholders believe the digital media holds a bright future for Urdu Journalism in this region. […]
URDU NEWSPAPERS: Challenges, lacunae, fears, hopes
Lala Mulk Raj Saraf, known as Baba-i-Sahafat (father of Journalism in J&K), launched first Urdu newspaper – weekly Ranbir (named after autocratic ruler Maharaja Ranbir Singh) from Jammu in 1924 and in the next two years, Urdu journalism (also called Urdu press) will complete a century of its existence in Jammu & Kashmir. Although long […]
J&K’s Budget 2022-23: Facts, Hopes, Apprehensions
As the budget preparation for the year 2022-23 is going on in Jammu and Kashmir, the stakeholders expect the upcoming budget to pave a way for some initiatives that eventually could help to stabilize the economy of the Union Territory (UT) which has been grappling with a constant growth in the unemployment rate and peaking […]
Sharp decline in fertility rate rings alarm bells in J&K
If the trend continues, UT may have more dependent population than the working one in the future thus weakening the social fabric
While an alarming rate of infertility cases had already been noticed in Kashmir over the years; the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data for 2019-21 has now confirmed a continuous and sharp fall in J&K’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR), an average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime. In […]
Is the culture of book reading dying or flourishing in Kashmir?
Modern technologies have impacted the functional activities of all walks of life, forcing some drastic lifestyle changes in humans everywhere in the world. The ongoing global pandemic has reinforced many of these changes. Kashmir is not an exception. For instance, internet-driven devices and digital media have impacted the book reading culture in Kashmir. People now […]
Sale of COVID-orphans brings spotlight on “orphanage business” in Kashmir
All is not well with them; in fact it never was…; now there’s evidence to say so
Blame it on the conflict in J&K, there has been a mushroom growth of orphanages across the Valley. Some of them, indeed, have played very important role in terms of providing shelter and safety to the vulnerable children, mostly those who have lost their single or both parents to the violence. Some of these orphanages […]
As Valley braces up to more chill, supply of electricity remains a question
The issue of erratic power supply is a chronic one which demands a long term mechanism to deal with besides the consumers too have to ensure judicious use of energy.
Like in every winter, Kashmir is grappling with the acute electricity crisis these days. Even though Chillai-Kalan, the 40-day long period of extreme cold, is yet to come, the Kashmir Power Development Corporation Limited (KPDCL) has already announced a curtailment schedule across the Valley —in Srinagar, for example, 1.5 hours power cut in a day […]
