Kashmir Life
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...
‘A plague on both their houses’
Career diplomat and one of the many South Asian experts in US Howard B Schaffer’s just released book ‘The limits of influence’: America’s role...
Olympic Prize
He wanted to ensure the comfort of his parents, every genuine facility to his family and a helping hand to his own people. This...
Choosy reservation
A constitutional measure to improve the status of underprivileged classes - reservation in jobs and education - is proving a lopsided measure. Many deserving areas have been left out while many in the list have long acquired facilities available to advanced areas. Hamidullah Dar reports.
Green poet
Zarief Ahmad Zarief is known more for his poetry and flamboyant Kashmiri critique than his social activism like his passion for saving Chinars. Majid...
Building a glacier
Known as the ice man of Ladakh, Chewang Norfel has created at least five artificial glaciers to replenish water scarcity created by global warming....
A rooted artist
Embracing a sidestepped mother tongue, theatre director Arshad Mustaq tells Majid Maqbool that he tries his bit to revive Kashmiri language and culture through...
Reid & Taylor strengthens Kashmir Bond
Global fabric giant Reid & Taylor is procuring more tweed from Kashmir and promises to showcase it in a big way. Haroon Mirani reports.
Strengthening...
A Trust Questioned
The major custodian of Muslim properties in Kashmir, Waqf or Auqaf, has remained beyond scrutiny for decades, though its management of donations and assets...
Successful entrepreneur, empowered woman
Mir Javeed profiles the success story of Nuzhat Maqbool, a young and successful entrepreneur, who is the only female distributor of Fast Moving Consumer...
J&K is NHPC’s Power House
Power starved J&K is a major power source for mainland India as NHPC derives half of its power and revenue from its facilities in...
Kashmir: The Birth of a Bank
Kamraz Rural Bank and Jammu Rural Bank merge to form J&K Grameen Bank, R S Gull reports.
After a three-year wait for the Union finance...
Empowering Kashmir
The 12 MW Athwatoo Hydro Power Project commissioned last week marks the beginning of private sector’s venture into J&K’s small power projects. Built by...
Fighting polythene
By banning polythene usage, the first step to fight the menace has been taken. But lack of alternatives and absence of eco-friendly disposal mechanism...
