‘Lockdowns Will Not Block Covid-19 Transmission Completely’
Acclaimed scientist, Prof Mohammad Sultan Khuroo’s significant contribution include the discovery of Hepatitis-E virus in 1978 from Kashmir when 1700 of an estimated 52000 cases of icteric hepatitis, cases died. In an interview to Syed Samreen, Khuroo terms Coronavirus a python, asserting only…
Is Everything All Right In Kashmir’s Grand Old Party?
by Tasavur Mushtaq SRINAGAR: With the gradual shrink in the political space, Kashmir post-August 5 witnessed a considerable ‘squeezing out’…
An Eid ‘Celebrated’ Silently In Seclusion Was A Recent First
by Tasavur Mushtaq SRINAGAR: On Sunday Kashmir celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr amid scare and seclusion. Reports reaching from length and breadth of Kashmir…
Why The Emergence of The UAPA Is An Interesting Civil Liberty Story?
by Danish Riyaz The system of governance has evolved over centuries as per the given requirements. The world has witnessed…
Why Do We Need To Think About Cyber Security More During The Pandemic?
by Yasir Altaf Zargar With the outbreak of Covid-19 causing an unprecedented global halt, billions of people across the globe…
The Covid Collateral
While the entire focus is on preventing Covid-19 related fatalities, people are silently dying from treatable medical conditions and also…
Sleeping Shangus
An abrupt detection of a series of Covid-19 infections down-south led authorities to strictly impose restrictions. Umar Khurshid spent a…
Dr Javaid Malik, the head of the Chest Medicine at SKIMS Medical College Hospital Bemina tell Khalid Bashir Gura KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What…
Blood and Virus
After the mourners violated the social distancing norms in Sopore, security grid has silently started official burial of the slain…
Under Corona Crosshairs
As families are rediscovering their shared spaces during the ongoing lockdown, a section of the society is witnessing a dramatic…
Residency To Reservations
After being legally protected for 108 years, Kashmiris find themselves out in the open as reservation rules replace Residency rights. Haseeb…
Digital Discrimination
Despite the growing public clamour and the petitions in the Supreme Court, Government has refused to restore the high-speed internet…
Kashmir’s Mask Manager
At the peak of despair when people were desperately seeking face-masks as the minimal basic defence against the crippling virus,…
A Leading Lady
As the worst affected area grapples with the pandemic, a lone woman is out on the streets helping the poor…
Nowhere To Go
Women depending on almsgiving by households to feed their families can’t visit them due to Covid-19 crisis. They desperately need…
A Cancer Destitute
Destitution that comes as a result of disease to individuals otherwise performing well is very difficult to comprehend. Tasavur Mushtaq…
Culture Warriors
Farzana Nissar treks deep-south to report the lonely fight of a peripheral theatre cluster to preserve Bhand Pather The road…
Briefing May 24 – May 30, 2020
ANANTNAG With schools shut, the suspension of non-performing teachers also came to a halt but last week Dr Asgar Hassan…
Khelo India In The Time Of Corona
Umar Mukhtar In times of Coronovirus when England Cricket Board (ECB) has decided that its players would not shake hands…
Kabul and Kashmir
As Trump administration finally shook hands with the Taliban in Doha and promised to withdraw within 14 months after 18…
Pulitzer, Finally
Kashmir media has been a harried lot throughout. As the pressures mounted in recent days with cases under harsh laws…
Lift The Lockdown
by Reyaz Wani Kashmir has been under an uninterrupted lockdown since the withdrawal of Article 370 in August 2019. Though…
Researchers have not been able to locate a single major factor for the disappearance of the Indus Valley Civilization other…
Kashmir’s Peter Dinklage
Tariq Mir has earned fame and a role in a Salman Khan starrer for being a look-alike of the Hollywood…
Dying Art Of Papiermachie
Dwindling economic utility of the art is forcing artisans in Kashmir villages to give up on it, reports Samreena Nazir…
Bombs In Pandemic
The recurrence of the border shelling between the rival armies from Kupwara to Poonch at the peak of a pandemic…
Benchmarking Phase
As the hearing of a number of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 resumed, the Supreme Court reserved the…
Stressed Assets Doubled
As the regulator’s restructuring plan envisaged multiple riders, post-August 5, data indicates that Kashmir has doubled its impaired assets in…
Surviving Epidemics
Most of the epidemics that Kashmir history has witnessed were imported and they thrived on unhygienic environs, indifferent rulers and…
The Low Footfall
After the government evacuated tourists at the peak of a successful tourist season in August, Umar Mukhtar sees no change…
Released Not Freed
Even after moving out of the special jails and from the home detentions, Kashmir politicians will be haunted by the…
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Growing Money
Nursery business has become a major source of livelihood in several Kulgam villages, reports Samreena Nazir On a frozen morning…
Sand Storm
At the peak of internet blockade, UT administration e-auctioned around 100 sand blocks along the Jhelum river and some of…