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Kashmir’s Chicken Neck
Kashmir’s Rs 1,500 crore poultry industry, once largely self-reliant, is sliding into crisis as unregulated imports surge and local production nosedives. Policy gaps have exposed farmers to unfair...
View ArticleKashmir’s Street Vendors
Kashmir’s street vendors, 17,950 strong enough to receive government loans, are no longer just the poor. They are the educated unemployed, surviving Kashmir’s economic stress one cart at a time,...
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‘I Began by Going Door to Door, Explaining What Solar Energy Could Do’
Qaiser Jaan’s journey begins far from corporate corridors, rooted instead in the narrow lanes of Srinagar downtown. Armed with a degree in biochemistry and later an MBA, she entered the world of...
View ArticleKashmir Houseboats: Drowning in Plain Sight
As tourist numbers surge across Kashmir, the very houseboats that made Dal Lake world-famous are slowly disappearing. Once symbols of the Valley’s romance and hospitality, these ornate floating homes...
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Kashmir’s Hides of Decline
Kashmir’s centuries-old raw hide trade, once a fortune, has shrunk 90 per cent since 2014, leaving traders facing an uncertain future, reports Afreen Ashraf Heaps of sheep hides in a storage facility...
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Kashmir’s Maternal Herbs
As allopathic medicine embraces AI and advanced technologies to transform healthcare, Kashmir continues to preserve an age-old tradition of postpartum healing, where new mothers are given herbal baths...
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Kashmir’s Roadside Breakfast
For generations, Masaal Tchot has been one of Kashmir’s most cherished roadside breakfasts. Today, it is much more than a morning snack. Sold from humble carts outside shrines, schools and markets, it...
View ArticleGold Prices Rise Across India Amid Strong Global Demand
SRINAGAR: Gold prices rose for the seventh straight session on Wednesday, climbing Rs 2,600 to Rs 1,59,800 per 10 grams in the national capital as strong investor demand and global market gains pushed...
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Kashmir’s Willow Wails
Kashmir’s Rs 700-crore willow-bat industry, feeding nearly 400 units and 1.5 lakh livelihoods, is bleeding raw material to smugglers even as manufacturers themselves stay complicit in the leakage. A...
View ArticleGold Rates Decline Across India
SRINAGAR: Gold prices fell by Rs 120 to Rs 1,63,109 per 10 grams in futures trade on Tuesday, mainly due to weaker demand in the spot market, analysts said. On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), gold...
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