October 22, 2025 1:35 pm
In J&K, one year after an elected government took charge, statehood is needed to bridge the glaring gaps in representation and accountability
September 29, 2025 10:12 am
“People who completed their education with great difficulty are not getting jobs … some are on contract, but that is virtual slavery … Councils are virtually defunct,” says Chhering Dorje Lakruk, a key negotiator with the government.
September 27, 2025 2:22 pm
While the interests of Buddhist-majority Leh and Muslim-majority Kargil have often not aligned with each other, Apex Body, Leh, and Kargil Democratic Alliance have united in the face of “common existential issues”.
September 25, 2025 12:49 pm
Amid the recent protests in Leh, a look at how Ladakh became a part of Jammu and Kashmir and its enduring significance to India.
September 01, 2025 3:43 pm
The conversation traced Chakravarty’s journey from her first reports in 2016, in the wake of Burhan Wani’s killing, to the silence she encountered when she began researching the book in 2022.
August 24, 2025 10:38 am
The ebb and flow of political and security issues ought not to deflect it from rendering justice according to law. The legal issue was crystallized before the Supreme Court. The Court refrained from deciding the issue based on a promise to the Court
August 06, 2025 4:26 am
A large number of police and paramilitary personnel were deployed at the PDP’s headquarters, where party president Mehbooba Mufti led the protest.
August 05, 2025 4:08 pm
The J&K Reorganisation Act was passed in Parliament on August 6, 2019. It gave the Centre, through the Lieutenant Governor, a heightened legislative role in J&K, and put the bureaucratic apparatus in the UT under the Union Home Minister.
August 05, 2025 9:51 am
Besides the slowdown in income growth, unemployment has been volatile post-2019 with temporary spikes much higher than earlier peaks
June 04, 2025 8:13 am
Since the abrogation of Article 370, demands have been raised for including Ladakh in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution. The protests gained nationwide visibility thanks to a hunger strike led by Sonam Wangchuk, highlighting concerns over jobs, protecting the tribal identity, and the ecology.
December 11, 2023 9:34 pm
CJI DY Chandrachud ruled that Article 370 was a temporary provision and the President of India was empowered to revoke it in the absence of the Constituent Assembly of the erstwhile state.


