INDIA
OPINION | India’s apple growers fear trade deals may cost them dear
India’s interim trade deal with the US followed the FTA with New Zealand. Barriers on apple imports have been lowered in the deals leading to apprehension here that growers are going to be squeezed
INDIA
How new US tariffs will hit Kashmir’s famed Pashmina shawls
Weavers, traders and exporters of Kashmiri Pashmina shawls weigh in on how the new US tariffs impact the already beleaguered industry, and whether this is a leg-up for Pashmina shawls from Pakistan which are being tariffed at a much lower rate in the US.
POLITICS
Why people of J&K feel Indus Waters Treaty shortchanged them
J&K has always been cut up about IWT as the UT has not been to exploit the full potential of its natural resource. In addition, it is believed that the limited use of the UT’s water resources has helped India’s lower riparian states at its own expense. There’s now hope that the situation will change with the Treaty being held in abeyance
BUSINESS
In Kashmir, ACs are selling like hot cakes
BUSINESS
Kashmir fruit traders fear another year of losses, this time from Amarnath Yatra curbs
BUSINESS
A year after ceasefire: How the truce between India and Pakistan is changing life along LoC
HEALTH-AND-FITNESS
Kashmir's roads to nowhere: When snow brings an avalanche of troubles
BUSINESS
Iranian apples in Afghan 'clothing' make Kashmiri growers see red
BUSINESS
Nida Ramzan Lone bakes the ‘essence of Kashmir’ into her cookies
BUSINESS
Zarka Tanzeel is living her dream, of being a job provider
BUSINESS
Kashmir’s brave women: They are building businesses from scratch, wanting to be employers and not ‘the employed’
POLITICS
With delimitation, BJP wants to pit Jammu against Kashmir, and Kashmir against Jammu: Gupkar alliance’s Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami
POLITICS
Dotted with security bunkers and frisking points, Kashmir has ‘returned to the nineties’
INDIA
Kashmir Killings: Exodus of non-local workers may hurt local economy
POLITICS
Hundreds of guest workers leave Kashmir in fear, slam government
POLITICS
Civilians are soft targets, extremely hard to defend: Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Hooda on Kashmir killings
POLITICS
For J&K’s public-transport operators, the pandemic has proved the last straw
TRENDS
Death of a policeman: A Kashmiri tragedy
TRENDS
Lt Gen. (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain: ‘We should enhance our contacts with the Islamic world, especially the Middle East’
POLITICS
‘We are sitting ducks’: Anger, fear in Kashmir after ‘targeted killing’ of BJP leaders
POLITICS
Taliban won’t get involved in Kashmir: AS Dulat
