INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
Kashmir valley in general and Srinagar city in particular has suffered on developmental front in the past one year. Since August 5, last year, all the developmental projects received a setback as the government gave only 24 hours to all yatries, tourists and outside laborers to leave Kashmir valley. It was followed by massive security […]
DOES IT MATTER?
Financial situation is so bad in Jammu and Kashmir especially in Kashmir valley that it is very difficult to see whether it matters or not that life is normal or under lockdown. It was recently summed up by a Kashmiri trader when he was asked about the prospectus of business picking up after the district […]
ECONOMIC PACKAGE
KCCI is waiting for the central economic package as there has been no business in Jammu and Kashmir in the past ten months. First it was the clampdown of the central government post August 5, last year and finally in the past three months it has been Covid-19 lockdown. These disruptive months have broken the […]
AILING TOURIST INDUSTRY
There has been virtually no tourism in Jammu and Kashmir in the past ten months and the industry is at the brink of closure with growing financial problems of the stakeholders. Government has not been able to intervene to save thousands of families connected with this trade. Even for the coronavirus lockdown period these families […]
FRESH LINK
There were lots of media reports earlier along with articles written by security experts that China was not happy about the abrogation of article 370, in Jammu and Kashmir especially making Ladakh a Union Territory without a legislature to be directly controlled by New Delhi. Most of such reports were not taken seriously even in […]
LONG WAIT
People of Jammu and Kashmir have been waiting from the past ten months for the lifting of restrictions on the high speed internet as the government first banned even the telephones including landlines in Kashmir valley and finally restored phones and internet after more than six months but with curbs on high speed internet. After […]
DAK DEFENDS
Doctors association of Kashmir after the recent controversy of faulty tests has come to the defense of the testing labs, in Kashmir. In a statement they have said that there is always for space for errors and mistakes do happen. In this connection DAK in a statement said that best efforts, no test can be […]
TRANSPORT INDUSTRY
Transport industry in Jammu and Kashmir has been under great stress since the clampdown imposed by the central government in Union Territory of JK after the abrogation of article 370, August 5 last year. Now the Covid-19 lockdown has proved the last nail virtually in the coffin of the transport industry especially in Kashmir valley. […]
HAILSTORM
In the past weeks, hailstorms have hit orchardists across Kashmir and there are media reports that heavy losses have been incurred by the farmers and without any compensation by the government they cannot come out of the debt trap. In this direction many political parties of Kashmir have appealed to the UT administration to fix […]
RESTRICTIONS RE-IMPOSED
Srinagar has seen a steep rise of COVID positive cases and all the plans of the government to unlock the severe lockdown imposed here could not be initiated. Government was thinking of starting life slowly in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir but the figures of COVID positive cases has frightened even the common people. […]
