Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
Newsmakers
ISSUED: Mumbai police has issued an advisory to various police stations asking them to keep a watch on people from J&K especially drivers, as...
Pass or fail
Social networking site Facebook may have gained popularity in Kashmir by youth resorting to anti-state discourse, but this week it made news for a...
Entrepreneur and snowed in?
Omar WaniHere are 5 websites you can check out while working from home “Information is the fastest selling good for entrepreneurs today”- my partner...
Commuter’s nightmare
With uncomfortable, overloaded buses, commuting in Srinagar continues to be an ordeal. Ibrahim Wani reports on the travails of commuting in Srinagar.
It takes him...
Caught in petty politics
With January 26 approaching, the atmosphere of fear has started taking the valley into its fold. For the last twenty years the 26th of...
Sleeping over cloud bursts
Umair AhmadOver the last two decades the weather in Kashmir has been behaving, to put it bluntly, erratically as far as snow and rainfall...
Aftershocks and fallouts
Arshid MalikThe latest phase of resistance in Kashmir, which lasted around five odd months, deeply altered the contours of the Kashmiri society. These alterations,...
Life after death
Zamir AhmadHudhaifa Al Yamani was one the companions of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). He was also known as “the possessor of the Secret”, since the...
Absurd logic
Ahmad KashmiriIndeed, beyond current affairs, 2010 witnessed many unique and extraordinary things. We wouldn’t be discussing individual subjects like General English, Psychology etc that...
Topper’s tips
By securing a phenomenal 495 marks out of 500, Sana Fayaz topped the merit lists in the recently declared results of class 10th. Ibrahim...
State of health
A research commissioned by the health department found the biomedical waste management in Kashmir as primitive and highly hazardous for public health and environment....
Don’t sleep over it
Even after the tremendous expansion of medical services over the last few decades, healthcare in Kashmir still leaves a lot to be desired.Be it...
Fake durgs, corrupt medicos
Muhammad AhseemLack of a healthy drug policy in J&K has been taking a heavy toll. The latest victim is a seven-day-old baby, who died...
Living out of the box
Arshid MalikThe more we advance as a people in terms of scientific knowhow and high end technology the more distant the joy of life...
A concerned wizard
Zamir AhmadDr Sabahat Azeem is an extraordinary personality and interesting as well. Even without meeting him, you can have a fair idea of his...
