Kashmir Life
‘Western Disturbances Run Riot with Kashmir’
Predicting a serious crisis in the near future, VC IUST, Prof Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, an earth scientist, tells Humaira Nabi that a huge surge...
Schooling In 1947
Educational institutions have existed in Kashmir in all eras for the last many centuries. However, they were less accessible to certain people in some...
‘Each Cell has Its Own Autonomy, but It gets Disrupted If Other Processes Fail’
After spending many years searching for plausible explanations for the make and break within DNA, Dr Altaf Bhat, the Coordinator at the Centre for...
Briefing August 28 – September 3, 2022
BANDIPORE
It never has been a single crisis because tragedies come together. Ayesha Begum is one instance. An old lady, she should have been at...
Why The Government Should Reconsider Changing Kashmir’s Academic Calendar?
by Bashir Ahmad Dar
The March session will reduce the number of working days for teaching and learning from the existing 200 to 213 days...
Small Steps, Big Leap
A five-year-old boy surprised even his parents by insisting that he will go on a day-long high-altitude trek between Pir Ki Gali and Nandsar...
Why Obesity Is A Medical Problem And Not A Cosmetic Concern Alone?
by Dr Sameer Mohammad
A significant component of weight control is to avoid sleep deprivation because lack of sleep disturbs our body and upsets the...
Kashmir’s Milk Belt
Abundant with nutrient-rich fodder and not far away from Srinagar, the major Kashmir market, a cluster of villages in Pulwama have emerged as key...
Singhara Harvest Strats In Wular Lake
SRINAGAR: Kashmir's famed water chestnut that Wular lake produces on its margins has started. Also called Water caltrop, it is basically the seed of...
How The Growing Plastic Pollution Is Impacting The Environment?
by Ruhail Maqbool Sheikh
Since its invention, we have produced about 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic - around 335 million tons in 2016 alone....
Why A Trek to Mawarnag Lake Is Fascinating?
by Syed Aamir Sharief Qadri
I am not a superstitious person who believes in magic and miracles. We were very disappointed to see him in...
Briefing August 21-27, 2022
JAMMU
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at eight locations spread across five districts in Jammu and one in the Kashmir division in connection...
Moorcroft’s Kashmir Days
East India Company’s veterinarian and stud manager, William Moorcroft is the most referred author about early nineteenth century Kashmir. While living in Srinagar between...
Subhan Hajam: Kashmir Barber Who Decimated Prostitution
When Kashmir's despots pushed women into prostitution to improve their tax kitty, a barber sacrificed almost everything in his crusade against the flesh trade....
Trout Take Off In Kashmir
Introducing trout was one of the many contributions that Raj made during Kashmir’s darkest era in the nineteenth century. Offering details of how the...
