Kashmir Life

Why Kashmir’s Tehzeeb Mahal Has Been A Jinx Throughout?

by Khalid Bashir Ahmad In January 2013, when the then Secretary Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages invited the then Minister for...

‘Avoiding Smart Phone Is Key To Success’, Student Who Scored 500/500 Says

by Saifullah Bashir SRINAGAR: Zainab Quadri, a student of Salfia Mulsim Institute has scored 500 out of 500 in the twelfth class results in the...

Society Must Acknowledge Importance of Home Science, Three Toppers Insist

by Saifullah Bashir SRINAGAR: On international women’s day, girls have secured all the top positions in all four streams in the crucial twelfth class, sending...

Taxing Paradise

Toronto Star rowing correspondent Gordon Sinclair entered Kashmir through the Lahore-Jammu route in 1935 summer. While his narration indicates he mistook the boatmen as...

A Lady Karvaan

Mehru N Nisa meets the young female scribe who crowdsources book to establish libraries for the underprivileged For the inmates at Daarul Muhsinaat, an orphanage...

Understanding Ceasefire

Not a single shot was fired anywhere on the LoC after the two armies implemented the ceasefire on February 26 night. The surprise development,...
The Khyber Himalayan Resort & Spa, Gulmarg AT DUSK.

Who Gave Gulmarg Its Name And Why?

by M J Aslam It was not before 1939 and 1942 when some British pioneers of the Himalayan Range of Mountains, introduced the first time...

Government Initiatives February 28 – March 6, 2021

Prioritising Agriculture The agriculture sector is expected to get more share of the Jammu and Kashmir’s budget in future as authorities develop a unique Sustainable...

Ceasefire: How Major Newspapers Commented On The Indo-Pak Breakthrough?

SRINAGAR: The Thursday announcement of the rival armies in India and Pakistan ceasing fire on the Line of Control (LoC) was not an ordinary...

Briefing February 28 – March 6, 2021

GULMARG Unlike previous years when the tourism industry in Kashmir suffered a severe dent, the tourist footfalls, mostly domestic came as a relief to the...

Biscoe’s Kashmir 1935

Missionary educationist, Cecil Earle Tyndale Biscoe (1863–1949) was a key player in pushing Kashmir to modern education and a better understanding of the world...

Plant Collectors In Kashmir

While studying Botany, students hardly spare a thought about the processes and the people who gave their lives to identify and name the plants...

Why Imran Khan Skipped Taking Up Forced Cremation of Sri Lankan Muslims?

SRINAGAR: Visiting at a time when Sri Lanka is facing the music for cremating the Muslim victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, Pakistan Prime Minister...

Baghat Attack: Is A Dress Code In Offing?

by Saifullah Bashir SRINAGAR: Within days after a militant moved his gun, hidden under his Pheran, and killed two cops in uptown Srinagar, a Bajrang...

Why Nobody Is Concerned About The Surging Diaper Pollution?

by Mukhtar Ahmad Farooqi As responsible citizens, we should either use alternatives until affordable environment-friendly nappies are readily available or avoid throwing the used nappies...