Kashmir Life

Returning the Debt

Within less than seven decades after the British Christian Missionaries introduced the modern allopathic system of medicine to Kashmir, a Srinagar-based doctor, Dr Ghulam...

An Animated Kashmir

Thousands of youth, adults and children are consuming tons of animations and the consumption is only going up. Muskan Fatima reports the trend and...

Briefing May 7-13, 2023

SANASAR It was tragic that in the middle of the night when a hotel went up in flames, the inmates were deep into slumber and...

Golden Leaves

Mirza Waheed’s 2014 novel tells the story of love and hope in times of war, writes Muskan Fatima Mirza Waheed’s novel The Book of Gold...

AI-Enabled Searches

Artificial intelligence is now hugely in use in search engines. Google and Microsoft are outwitting each other in the use of AI to enhance...

Kashmir’s English Press

Successive rulers before and after 1947 have remained reluctant in encouraging English journalism in Jammu and Kashmir. Fighting odds, restrictions and outright denial of...

Briefing April 30-May 6, 2023

POONCH Jammu and Kashmir Police have detained six persons after questioning nearly 200 people in Poonch following April 22, attack on an army vehicle in...

Earthquakes: What Should Kashmir Do?

We must retrofit and audit the existing infrastructure to ensure that they are able to withstand seismic forces, and we must change our construction...

Can Scientists Predict A Particular Earthquake?

University of Washington professor of seismology and geohazards Harold Tobin who also heads the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, explains the differences between predicting and forecasting earthquakes In...

NIA Court Issues Proclamation Order Against JeM Commander

SRINAGAR:National Investigation Agency Court Pulwama on Tuesday issued Proclamation order under section 82 CRPC in respect of a designated militant and an active militant...

Maeshi Kreaj: Kashmir’s Butter Bread

Buffalo herdsmen convert milk into sundried cheese that is stored, cooked and sold as a speciality, explains MJ Aslam Unlike Kashmir plains, the hills of...

Briefing April 23-29, 2023

POONCH In anticipation of preparations for the G20 meeting in Kashmir, suspected militants targeted an army vehicle killing five of the six soldiers. The surviving...

Khawaja Saududdin Shawl (1873-1955)

In Kashmir tehreek against the despotic Dogra rule, one of the major characters was businessman, Khawaja Sauddin Shawl, whose contribution is least known and...
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Briefing April 16-22, 2023

NOWHATTA Amid the din that Kashmir is normal, authorities locked the Jamia Masjid Srinagar for Jummat-ul-Vida, the last Friday congregation for Ramazan, the Muslim month...

Tengpora Slum

Driven by poverty and the hunt for livelihoods, a group of Nagrota families is living near Batamaloo in a tented slum to make a...