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.
‘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...
‘Genetics May Help Humans Live A Long Life’
From a south Kashmir school to Canada’s Laval University, Dr Abdul Wajid has dedicated his research career to a better understanding of genes. To...
Kashmir In Israeli Tanaav
As IFFI-jury head, acclaimed Israeli filmmaker, Nadav Lapid, termed Bollywood’s 2022’s highest grosser, The Kashmir Files “crude, manipulative, violent and propaganda”, a Himalayan controversy...
New Agriculture Policy
With the primary sector shrinking in size and space, encouraging migrations at the grassroots level, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has come up with...
JK Bank Share-price Rises to 52-Week High
SRINAGAR: JK Bank share touched its 52-week-high price at Rs 45.45 on National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The scrip eventually...
Squeezed Expenditures?
After 2018, Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing a fall in income to the government which is resulting in comparatively low expenditures in asset creation,...
‘Depression Is the Mother of All Diseases’
After working at John Hopkins for 12 years, Dr Shaida Andrabi moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he is currently...
‘During my PhD, I Identified Four Gene’s Vital for Blood Brain Barrier Formation in...
Neuroscientist, Dr Mubarak Hussain Syed is personally amazed by brain development and its evolution in diverse life forms. Leading a laboratory at the University...
