Domestic Tourists Make-up for Lost Time

The numbers make it clear – peace dividend is real if Kashmiris stop being abused by political operatives with single agenda to create mayhem and anarchy 13.50 Lakh Tourists Visited Kashmir in 2012: Parvez Gulmarg: The Winter Sports kick-started formally at...

Disappearing Heritage

Kashmiri woodwork, once a thriving industry, has seen its better days Traditional art of Woodwork Loses its Sheen in Valley Mukhtar Ahmed (Kashmir Images) Srinagar: Once vogue in the valley, the art of woodworking has suffered on many fronts for the last more than two...

Room for Improvement

Srinagar is among the dirtiest cities among the world – rivalling those in sub-sahara region of Africa – because of its incapability to handle municipal waste. Here is an idea Managing Garbage Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) can learn from Hyderabad...

Paying a Heavy Price

Kashmiris are paying a high price for ecological destruction, while bureacracy created to protect environment has its focus elsewhere Largest Fresh Water Lake Shrinking Iftikhar Ashraf/ Shafat Farooq (Kashmir Monitor) Bandipora: Wullar Lake also known as Asia’s...