Terrorists opened fire at a renowned meadow near Kashmir’s Pahalgam town on Tuesday afternoon, killing 26 people, mostly tourists, in what is the deadliest attack in the Valley since the Pulwama strike in 2019.
The context is telling. India and Saudi Arabia, once loosely tethered by oil flows and labour migration, are now fast evolving into strategic partners. Their bilateral ties—once transactional—are now underpinned by shared economic and security goals and common diplomatic alignments
We often see news alerts on drug busts, shake our heads, and move on. But this is not just a law-and-order problem. It’s a deep-rooted social and psychological crisis. And we need to talk about it, not tomorrow, not next month- now.
The cost of airlifting a critically ill patient on a stretcher to the mainland stands at approximately ₹4 lakh—an amount Bhaskar says most islanders simply cannot afford