Shams Irfan
A journalist with seven years of working experience in Kashmir.
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Omar WaniThis is not a BejanDaruwala piece to predict how the new-year will turn out for you if you are an architect, chartered accountant,...
Mini Kashmir
Centuries ago they migrated to escape bonded labour or persecution, their language is Kashmiri’s only other dialect and their hearts beat for their brethren...
A prayer heard
Ikhlaq QadriTo perform Hajj once in lifetime is the dream of every Muslim. However, some perform it more than once. In rare cases some...
Newsmakers
KILLED: In 5,053 road accidents 889 people were killed and 7,178 injured in the state in 11 months up to November 2010. However, during...
The new academia
Omar WaniThree important aspects mark the end of this week: the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the first snow fall...
Mushtaq Ahmad
When the state government suggested RBI to appoint Mushtaq Ahmad as the chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the bank that it owns,it fetched...
M Y Khan
since he retired in 2005 summer after putting in over eight years as chairman of the J&K Bank, Mohammad Yusuf Khan maintained a low...
The topper
Twenty seven year old Dr Shah Faesal created history by becoming the first Kashmiri to secure first position in the Civil Service Exams 2009....
G M Saroori
G M SarooriAt the drop of the hat, the erstwhile R&B minister G M Saroori would find himself outside Rahul Gandhi’s gate. But he...
Dr Haseeb A Drabu
summer when the government asked Dr Hasseb A Drabu to put in his papers as Chairman and Managing Director of the J&K Bank, they...
Lost in chaos
The biggest disappointment of the year was PDP. The largest opposition party was absent for most of the times from the state legislature, letting...
Strengthening community
For Kashmiri Pandits, migration has remained a mixed bag. They managed a survival, got best of the education, sympathy, relief and a new world...
Cardiac Hospital
It was sheer luck that Dr Fayaz Shawl somehow managed to fly to UK. After creating his unmatched profile in last 37 years, he...
Firefighting
After weeks of blaming the separatists, the Lashkar-e-Toiba, opposition PDP and Pakistan of fomenting the unrest in Kashmir, New Delhi tried to reach out...
Boosting entrepreneurship
in December 2009, Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY) has been NC government’s major policy initiative. Apart from reorganizing employment exchanges into...
