Kashmir Life
Government Initiatives August 29 – September 5, 2021
A 700-Bedded Hostel
To improve the facilities for the students at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha had laid the...
Music In Mud House
Deep into north Kashmir, Faheem Mir meet a small community that sings and lives on folk music but is facing a tense situation in...
Why The Taliban Rise Is An Extra-Ordinary Development In South Asia?
by Syed Suhail Yaqoob
The withdrawal of Russia from Afghanistan in the 1990s created serious security implications in Kashmir.
The world is in shock and...
How Covid19 Has Brought In Interesting Changes In Teaching And Learning?
by Tariq Bashir
A study conducted by Jaipur- based JK Lone Children Hospital has found that the lockdown restrictions had an adverse impact on the...
Working Mothers
The most challenging aspect of the life of working women is to raise their children. This natural process is seriously impacted by the local...
Is The Future of Afghanistan Linked To Its Mineral Deposits?
by Asad Mirza
Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has once again put a big question mark on its future, but it has also offered a glimmer...
Briefing August 21-27, 2021
Obituary
Mian Bashir Ahmad
(1921-2021)
Of all the roads outside Srinagar, the busiest is the road to Kangan’s Wangat area. Even though it is a week now...
Why Hamid Anwar’s Demise Is Not An Ordinary Loss For Me?
by Zahid G Mohammad
The beauty of our fifteen-day tour was that Hamid Sahib did not try to impose his decision on us for a...
1885 Earthquake
Kashmir owes a lot to the British doctor duo, the Neve Brothers, the missionaries who were running the Mission Hospital. Here is the first-hand...
Boredom Is Creative?
Getting bored is not as boring as it gets, writes Azra Hussain
Even though it is a very uncomfortable feeling, boredom does not affect us...
Government Initiatives August 15-21, 2021
For Transparency
In a move to improve transparency and accountability in the governance system, Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha launched the PROOF (an acronym for Photographic...
Why Civil Society May Have To Help Students On The Other Side of Digital...
by Abid Ahmad Shah
Due to excess trafficking of data on this virtual platform, sometimes, it gets technical glitches, wherein it becomes impossible to open...
Urdu In Dogra Rule
By the fall of the nineteenth century, Urdu had effectively replaced Persian as the language of the court and emerged as the new lingua...
Hands That Pour Emotion Into Muharram Banners Work Seasonally
by Saifullah Bashir
SRINAGAR: Muharram is the first month of the Muslim Hijri calendar. This year, it coincided with August 9. With the day one...
What Are New Information Technology Laws and Policy in Jammu and Kashmir?
by Ajaz Afzal Lone
Generally, people don’t register complaints either due to lack of knowledge or due to fear of disclosing their identity, hence, the...
