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.
Decontrolled Mutton
Permitting demand-supply to decide pricing in Rs 15000 crore livestock sector is a good intervention. However, unregulated pricing in imperfect markets having regulated supply...
‘Artificial Intelligence is Another Revolution’
From a state-run secondary school in Srinagar to IBM’s Watson Lab and now the Director of Engineering (AI) at LinkedIn, Dr Faisal Farooq has...
Kashmir’s Narasimha Rao Days
The worst period of Kashmir militancy coincided with PV Narasimha Rao’s term as Prime Minister. How he handled the goriest situation ever, its diplomatic...
‘In Israel, I Discovered Something Which Was Not Known In Biology For A Long...
Plant physiologist, Dr Autar Mattoo struggled a lot before he landed in the US Department of Agriculture-run Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory at Beltsville, Maryland. In the...
‘The Biggest Challenge Is To Find Out How 98% of DNA Regulates The Rest...
A young geneticist, Dr Rais A Gania was surprised to see his takeaways from his PhD were part of the text well before he...
Kashmir’s Early Introduction to Islam
Centuries before the arrival of Shah-e-Hamadan and the rise of Sheikh Nooruddin Noorani in the fourteenth century, Kashmir knew about Islam and Muslims. Rajatarangini,...
Inventing for Have-Nots’
At NIT in Srinagar is a civil engineering professor who is passionate about machines. In the last few years, he has devised a basket...
‘We Are Trying to Understand the Pathogen Strategy’
After spending his entire research career at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, Dr M Ayub Qadri has joined IUST as Dean of...
‘We Must Look at Our Past with All Its Dissensions, Pain-learn and Understand the...
With PhD from the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture (1999) and a post-doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2022), Dr Hakeem Sameer Hamdni’s...
JK Spending Rs 118500 Cr In 2023-24, 39 per cent for Salary, Pension
SRINAGAR: Presenting her fourth consecutive budget estimates for federally ruled Jammu and Kashmir, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Union territory will spend Rs...
‘Some Haakh Varieties Have High Anticancer Potential against Prostate and Lung Cancer Cells’
A junior scientist at SKUAST-K, Dr Khalid Zaffar Masoodi is an award-winning biotechnologist who has been working on cancer biology. Founder of Kashmir’s first...
O’ Pir Panchal
After remaining invincible and impregnable for centuries, the mighty Pir Panchal is witnessing enormous developmental activity for a new expressway, a challenging railway line...
‘Failure In Detecting Early Is The Reason Behind High Mortality Rates In Cancer’.
After spending a lot of time trying to locate the particular molecules that play a role in diverse cancers, Dr Zahida Qamri changed her career path...
‘Our Gut Is Our Second Brain’
Kashmir neuroscientist, Dr Zahoor Shah, currently teaching at the University of Toledo, Ohio, is investigating the Gut-Brain axis in understanding various brain disorders, including...
‘We Are Nearly Successful In Creating Gene-edited, Cloned Embryos of High Yeilding Pashmina Goats’
Since 1997 when the first cloned mammal was born in Europe, there have been many abortive bids to use the technology in India. It...
