Khalid Bashir Gura
A Mass Communication and Journalism postgraduate from the University of Kashmir, Khalid is a writer by choice and a journalist by chance.
Broken Contract
Hundreds of contractual lecturers working for years at various higher secondary schools and colleges were abruptly disengaged after August 2019. Now, in their late...
Why Has Kashmir Romanticised The Rumour For So Long?
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Rumours and Kashmir have had a long tryst with each other with the former recently causing panic in the valley...
‘We Are Trying To Technologically Equip Our Schools’
Director of School Education Kashmir, Tassaduq Hussain Mir is a busy man these days. He has to ensure that the government schools adopt and...
‘By Late June Or Early July, We May Again Reach The Pre-April Status’
Dr Syed Mudasir Qadri, an Associate Professor of Internal and Pulmonary Medicine at the SKIMS, Srinagar has been in the thick of the fight...
Deployed To Manage Covid19, Intern Docs Seek Respectable Stipend
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: The medical interns at the Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar are demanding they be treated at par with other healthcare...
Denied Accommodation, Covid19 Doctors Say Their Families Rendered Vulnerable
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Unlike last year, the resident doctors managed the frontline against Covid19 in GMC, Srinagar, have been deprived of an isolation...
Cow Vigilantes Strike Again, Bakerwal Family Rescued By Army
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: A cow vigilante gang attacked a nomadic herder family last night leaving many of them injured. The family was on...
Times Change: Marriage Halls Converted Into Covid19 Wellness Centres
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: The Covid19 pandemic has altered the meanings of every aspect of life. It has dictated necessities that were unimaginable...
The Oxygen Grid
With more people requiring Oxygen therapy to fight back Covid19 and its virulent mutated variants, Khalid Bashir Gura goes on an Oxygen audit on...
The Counter-Covid19 Movement
As the Covid-19 unleashes its carpet-bomb-morbidity in Kashmir, hundreds of individuals and groups have redoubled their efforts to restrict the possibly colossal costs. They...
150 Kashmir Employees, Seek Repatriation To Jammu and Kashmir UT
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: More than 150 employees hailing from Jammu and Kashmir serving in the Union Territory of Ladakh in various Government departments...
Covid-19 Can Affect Heart’s Electrical System: Study
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Covid-19 can interfere with the complex electrical system that keeps the heart beating at regular intervals, a study of the...
Stuck In Lockdown, Kashmiri Students Seek Travel Assistance For Going To Bangladesh
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: Amid the second wave of raging Covid-19 pandemic across India, the future of 100-odd Kashmiri medical students pursuing degrees in...
Covid-19: Kashmir Civil Society Members Voice Concern On Lockdown Strategy
by Khalid Bashir Gura
SRINAGAR: As Kashmir valley braces for a third lockdown from Thursday evening owing to the rising Covid-19 cases, the civil society...
Jungle Outreach
After the drastic drives of “evicting” the forest “encroachers”, when an expert team visited the communities living in the forest periphery, the residents opened...
