JK Policy Institute

Advocating for sustainability
Climate Change: Deepening the vulnerability of Kashmir Himalayas
1024 683 Zahoor Ahmad Dar

Ever since the human evolutionary process got rolling, the climate has exerted influence on the evolutionary pattern and human lives and has also been affected by it in return. Alteration…

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 Harnessing the potential of Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar
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Vasa Cubrilovic, who was part of the gang that assassinated Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, which is believed to have triggered World War I, once said that the “countries…

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Music of Kashmir: Past perfect, future uncertain
660 495 Shivangi Singh

Kashmir, known as “Heaven on Earth,” has a diverse cultural legacy. Recent trends in Kashmiri poetry have evolved in tandem with contemporary folk music, keeping pace with the changing environment.…

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Sri Lanka’s food security crisis continues as over 28 pc of its population is “food insecure”
1000 708 Yashi Singh

The end of the Cold War era had created an elbow room for nations to change their approach whilst dealing with threats of traditional and non-traditional nature. Food, climate and…

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Climate Change and Natural Disasters in South Asia 
1 1 Adeela Hameed

Natural disasters are on the rise worldwide. There are more and more intense natural disasters – determined to cause at least 100 deaths or to affect the basic survival needs…

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Iran Nuclear Deal: Background and its impact on the Middle East    
500 375 Yashi Singh

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the “Iran nuclear deal” or the “Iran deal” is a comprehensive document with 159 pages and five annexures. The Accord…

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 Plastic: A threat to environmental sustainability and human well-being
1024 768 Zahoor Ahmad Dar

Technically sophisticated, cheap, and lightweight, plastic is one of the world’s most-used materials. Roland Barthes, a French intellectual in his 1957 book Mythologies quotes about plastics: “So, more than a…

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Geostrategic Importance of Xinjiang Region
1024 768 Anamitra Banerjee

Xinjiang in Mandarin translates to a new frontier or borderland. Also known as Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Xinjiang lies within the proximity of a cold desert region. It happens…

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF UNCHECKED TOURISM
1024 608 Adeela Hameed

Tourism represents around 6% of world trade and almost 13% of the total global consumer spending. Unlike most other industries, tourism is essentially based on a good environment, and people…

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World Environment Day
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Understanding the rise in fire incidents in Jammu and Kashmir
1024 1024 Arka Chakraborty

In the first three months of the current year, there were no less than 146 fire incidents in the summer capital Srinagar, causing damage to property worth 2.5 billion rupees…

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Death anniversaries of Mirwaiz Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone: Why public commemorations in Kashmir are just focused on who are dead, not their killers?
600 400 Javaid Trali

Lest we forget… it was on May 21, 1990, when Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq — the then Mirwaiz of Kashmir, and father of incumbent Mirwaiz (Umar Farooq) —was assassinated at…

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