Kashmir Life
Kashmir: Water War
Irrigation and Law ministries in the state are divided over the way out on Punjab’s breach of a 30-year-old water-sharing agreement. A Kashmir Life report.
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Saving childhood
Yateem Foundation houses more than 60 children in their orphanage but prefers to help orphans and destitute in their home environment. Shazia Khan reports.
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Healthy Trend
A state of the art 100 bedded private hospital coming up in Srinagar is expected to bring some relief to the ailing over burdened...
Whose Safety Act
Enacted in 1978 to nail political detractors Public Safety Act has been consistently strengthened and abused by successive governments. While its advisory board, a...
Clean Sweep
It remains central to every innovation or enterprise. It not only rules in the domains of science and technology but drives the business world...
Baby Boom…
Every month two test tube babies are conceived in Kashmir after infertile couples undergo in-vitro fertility (IVF) treatment at Rotunda Hygeia, state’s first and...
Afraid of a woman!
The state government’s insistence on keeping woman separatist Asiya Andrabi jailed out of Kashmir surprises even the apex court of India. Hamidullah Dar reports.
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Ladakh’s Seabuckthorn Berries
Researchers in Ladakh are experimenting with organised cultivation of Seabuckthorn, the wild bush famed for products like Seabuckthorn tea, Leh Berry Juice and herbal...
Home for orphans
Yateem Khana literally means ‘home for orphans’. Located in Srinagar, this institute is devoted to the care of hundreds of orphans besides supporting many...
Be Fair
In J&K, regional discrimination is an old issue. Political forces in Jammu have used it for creating and consolidating their influences.
The gulf between regions...
Disability is no inability
Left paraplegic by multiple bullet injuries, Arshad Pandith chose to come out of despair and live his life. Today he drives his car, his...
Rape of an investigation
The only bit of evidence on Shopian "rapes and murders" has been lost as CFSL report says that the vaginal swabs of victims have...
Fudging all the way
It is not the first time that fudging of samples for DNA profiling has surfaced in a case in Kashmir. DNA fudging made news...
Cell Phones: Going To Be 4 Million This Month
The cell phone penetration is about to cross four million which, based on the 2001 census, would be forty per cent of the state...
Preserving the Past
At an age when people retire, Atiqa Bano set up a museum to preserve and display rare artefacts and manuscripts of Kashmir. Majid Maqbool...
