Climate and bad engineering are crippling Kashmir’s road connectivity

Once again, the Srinagar–Jammu National Highway and the Mughal Road lie crippled under the twin weight of extreme weather and fragile engineering. For Kashmir...

J&K must mainstream DRR in development. If not, it risks major disruptions.

The spate of cloudbursts, flash floods, landslides and damage to the Srinagar–Jammu highway in recent weeks has once again laid bare an uncomfortable truth:...

Kishtwar, Kathua tragedies: J&K must treat its fragile mountains as a climate emergency

The tragic loss of lives and livelihoods in the recent cloudburst and flash flood incidents in Padder (Kishtwar) and Kathua is yet another painful...

Srinagar book festival rekindles Kashmir’s spirit of dialogue and discovery

In a time when societies around the world grapple with polarisation and narrowing spaces for dialogue, the just-concluded Chinar Book Festival in Srinagar has...

Supreme Court’s alarm must make Jammu & Kashmir reflect 

The Supreme Court's stark warning that Himachal Pradesh could “vanish from the map of the country” if ecological degradation continues unchecked is an extremely...

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