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Caught Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: The Silent War Between Women That Grinds Men to Dust

October 18, 2026October 18, 2026 Editor

Caught Between Devil & Deep Sea: Why Women Fight Women & Men Suffer in Silence By: Javid Amin | 18 October 2026 The Kitchen That Became a Battlefield It is a Sunday afternoon. In the kitchen, a mother-in-law is clearing the plates with a little more noise than usual. In the bedroom, a daughter-in-law is staring at her phone, hurt by a remark made at lunch. In the living room, a man is pretending to watch television. He heard everything. He will say nothing. Because whatever he says will be…

Caller Names to Appear on Mobile Screens From November 1 as DoT Makes CNAP Mandatory

October 15, 2026 Editor

Unknown Callers to Show Their Names From November 1 Under New DoT Rule

New caller identification system will use telecom operators’ subscriber records to display names alongside numbers, with international calls labelled separately By: Javid Amin | 15 October 2026 New Delhi: Mobile phone users across India will begin seeing callers’ names alongside their phone numbers from November 1, following a directive issued by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to introduce Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) across the country’s 4G and higher-generation wireless networks. The order, dated October 13, directs all telecom service providers authorised to offer access services to introduce the facility across…

From Seven Dishes to 25: How Wedding Showmanship Is Reshaping Kashmir’s Social Fabric

October 1, 2026 Editor

When Wazwan Became a Status Symbol: The Hidden Cost of Kashmir's Big-Fat Weddings

From Wazwan to Wedding Debt: How Showmanship Is Reshaping Kashmir’s Social Fabric By: Javid Amin | 30 September 2026 Wazwan was once a celebration of Kashmiri hospitality. But when seven dishes became 20, 25 or more, and weddings became competitions in meat, gold and display, the question changed: are we preserving culture, or pricing ordinary families out of marriage? Srinagar: There was a time when a Kashmiri wedding could be remembered for the warmth of the people rather than the weight of the meat. A wedding feast was generous, but…

Inflation in Kashmir: Why Everyday Life Is Getting Harder for Common Families

September 24, 2026 Editor

Inflation in Kashmir: The Silent Squeeze on Food, Jobs and Family Budgets

Inflation: The Silent Virus Making Everyday Life a Struggle for Common Kashmiris By: News Desk | 23 September 2026 Rising food prices, transport costs, education expenses and uneven incomes are quietly squeezing household budgets across the Kashmir Valley Srinagar: At first glance, the monthly household budget may not look dramatically different. The same grocery shop. The same school. The same bus route. The same electricity meter. The same salary arriving at the end of the month. Yet somewhere between the first week and the last, the money disappears faster. A…

Mahr to Mortgage: How Kashmiri Weddings Turned Into Family Debt

September 22, 2026 Editor

The EMI That Outlives the Wedding: Inside Kashmir’s Silent Debt Trap for Poor Fathers By: Javid Amin | 22 September 2026 A father mortgages his one piece of land. The wedding lasts three days. The loan follows him for the rest of his life — and sometimes gets handed down to his children. A look at how Kashmir’s wedding economy turned a father’s blessing into a decades-long liability, and the government scheme quietly trying to break the cycle. Kashmir Valley — There is a particular kind of arithmetic that plays…

Who Cast the Evil Eye on my Kashmir? Inside a Valley Wrestling With Family Crisis, Unemployment and Social Change

September 21, 2026September 21, 2026 Editor

Who Cast the Evil Eye on Kashmir? Inside a Valley Wrestling With Family Crisis, Unemployment and Social Change

Kashmir Social Fabric Under Pressure: Who Cast the Evil Eye on the Valley? By: Javid Amin | 20 September 2026 From extravagant weddings and family-court battles to unemployment, trafficking and mental-health concerns, Kashmir is confronting a difficult question: what is happening to the social fabric of the Valley? There is a question increasingly being whispered across Kashmir, sometimes in drawing rooms, sometimes over tea, sometimes after a family dispute and sometimes after another troubling story appears on a mobile phone. What happened to us? The question is not really about…

J&K Reservation Row: Iltija Mufti Targets NC Over Jobs, Merit and Pending Report

September 20, 2026 Editor

J&K Reservation Row: Iltija Mufti Targets NC Government Over Jobs and Pending Quota Report By: Javid Amin | 19 September 2026 Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s long-running debate over reservation has returned to the centre of political attention, this time with Peoples Democratic Party leader Iltija Mufti accusing the National Conference-led government of failing to address the concerns of open-merit aspirants. At a protest in Srinagar on Saturday, Mufti demanded that the Jammu and Kashmir government make public the report of the Cabinet Sub-Committee constituted to examine and rationalise the reservation…

Kashmir Mosques Take Up Addiction, Suicide and Environment in New Social Reform Drive

September 17, 2026 Editor

Kashmir Mosques Expand Role Beyond Religion as Ulema Take Up Addiction, Suicide and Environment By: Javid Amin | 16 September 2026 Srinagar: In Kashmir, the Friday sermon is being asked to do more than speak about faith. A new initiative by the Mutahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) seeks to put issues such as drug addiction, suicide and self-harm, youth distress, family problems, social-media misuse and environmental degradation directly into the community conversation. The decision was taken at a one-day Ulema Meet and Seerat Conference in Srinagar on September 15, chaired by Mirwaiz…

Kashmir EV Winter Test: Can Electric Vehicles Survive Snow, Cold & Himalayan Roads?

September 15, 2026 Editor

Kashmir’s EV Winter Test: Can Electric Cars Survive Snow, Sub-Zero Nights and Himalayan Roads? By: News Desk | 14 September 2026 Srinagar: An electric car may look perfectly comfortable on a summer drive through Srinagar. The calculation changes when temperatures fall below freezing, roads become slippery, mountain climbs increase energy consumption and the nearest fast charger may be many kilometres away. That is the less visible challenge facing India’s electric vehicle transition in the Himalayan region. The national EV story is increasingly one of falling battery costs, expanding model choices…

The Crore-Rupee Question: Are Kashmiri Weddings Still About Marriage?

September 9, 2026September 9, 2026 Editor

The Izzat Economy: What Kashmir's Most Expensive Weddings Are Really Paying For

Why Kashmiri Weddings Cost So Much By: Javid Amin | 08 September 2026 A gold set here, an extra hundred guests there, a wazwan spread built to be talked about for years — in the Kashmir Valley, weddings have quietly become a currency of their own. The question worth asking isn’t how much families are spending. It’s what, exactly, they think they’re buying. Every wedding season in Kashmir produces the same whispered arithmetic. Someone’s cousin heard that a family in Batamaloo spent close to a crore. Someone’s neighbour compares gold…