Masood Hussain
Associated with the Srinagar dateline since 1987, Masood Hussain has served a number of media organisations in the last more than three decades. He served Kashmir Times for around a decade and joined The Economic Times which he left in 2015 after 17 years. He is currently the Editor of Kashmir Life.
Kashmir’s New Landmarks
In an apparent overdrive to reclaim the landed assets, encroached upon over the years, the Jammu and Kashmir administration moved bulldozers and created a...
‘Rice Can Now Be Grown Without Stagnant Water In A Field’
A teacher, researcher and innovator, Dr Jameel A Khan’s expertise in developing drought-tolerant varieties has helped address climate change challenges. Currently serving as Programme...
Nuclear Conflict?
Mike Pompeo, former US Secretary of State has claimed that India and Pakistan were on the brink of a nuclear war in wake of...
QR Code, GI Labelling Push Kashmir Handicrafts Exports Touch Rs 729 Cr In Nine...
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: Kashmir’s handicraft basket will now have a Quick Response (QR) code alongside the GI labelling. This is part of the serious...
‘The Idea That A (urban) Planner Is A Genius With Grand Ideas Is Bogus’
Dr Samina Raja plans cities, towns, and regions to promote health and food equity. An award-winning professor and founder of a globally recognized Food...
Revealing Little
Amarjit Singh Dulat is one of the many Kashmir specialists. He has handled Kashmir in the capacity of a senior IB officer and later...
‘We Have Found Three Inhibitors That Reduce Pain During Cancer’
Dr Muzaffar A Macha has been a ‘golden boy’ throughout. At AIIMS and abroad and now home as head of IUST’s Watson-Crick Centre for...
‘Cancer Continues To Be the Biggest Challenge For Science’
Biochemist Dr Arsheed A Ganaie has worked on Tuberculosis, prostate cancer and pancreatic cancer during his research within and outside India. At Watson and Crick...
‘Saffron Is Anti-carcinogenic; Can Delay Alzheimer’s and is Used in Treating Depression’
A leading plant scientist, Dr Nasheman Ashraf, currently Principal Scientist at CSIR-IIM, was the first to create a data bank of 64000 Saffron genes...
‘60 Ladakh Spring Bacteria Produce Antibiotics against Different Diseases’
Awarded for his research in microbiology last week, CSIR-IIIM Principle Scientist, Dr Zahoor Ahmad Parray has been primarily working on the drugs involving Tuberculosis....
‘I Am Devising An Optogenetic Tool That Can Rewrite or Create False Memory’
Apart from demonstrating the evidence of how a diseased lung cell seeks help physically by developing tunnelling nano-tubes from a healthier one, Dr Tanveer...
The Lease Row
Over the years, the successive governments skipped extending the lease of innumerable land parcels as a result of which hundreds of properties in hospitality...
‘In the Next 10 Years, Genetic Engineering Will Revolutionise Medical Science’
Intervention cardiologist at the Temple University School of Medicine, Srinagar-born Prof Riyaz Bashir has devised a special series of life-saving, clot-removing catheters, some of...
In A Political Minefield
As the president of the grand old Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC), Dr Farooq Abdullah, 85, will encounter the unprecedented challenges of his...
‘In Skill and Speed, Humans’ Can Not Compete The Machine’
As the world has been taken over by AI and ML, science is now chasing the countless benefits that quantum computing will offer in...
