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Aid its prevention

Much has been written on AIDS as a disease; its life threatening nature, its transmission and its spread.

India’s choices

Whole of Sinai Peninsula was occupied by Israel and all of Soviet made armor and hardware rendered useless. Egypt retaliated in 1971 but failed...

From the ‘Zero Bridge’

A Kashmiri-American director shot his film ‘Zero Bridge’ in Kashmir that tells the story of common people in Kashmir. Nafeesa Syeed interacts with the...

J&K has Rs 30,000 Cr with Banks

Banks operating across J&K have advanced Rs 2,537 Cr (Rs 1200 cr in Kashmir, Rs 1277 cr in Jammu and Rs 60 cr in...

Recession blues: unrest ahead

Global Recession has not spared Kashmir in spite of its isolation, but experts say the real impact is still in offing. Some two to...

Floating in turbulence

Mushtaq A Punjabi The world is under heat of recession that has affected almost all the big economies; slightly or considerably. Our valley is...

Sucking the disease out

An age-old method of cure by sucking impure blood, leech therapy has now entered medical textbooks. Hospitals in Kashmir too use this method for...

Saving Dal Lake

Over the years, people in general and Kashmir media in particular have debated the future of Dal lake thread bare. The regulating authority however...

Kashmir: HIV Enters Schools

The growing incidence of HIV infection in J&K has been an open secret for some time, but now the monster has extended its reach...

Remembering Iqbal: beyond the rhetoric

Zamir Ahmed
Iqbal Bhi Iqbal se Aagaah nahi hai,

Mapping the Edges

Time and again, ours may be considered activism of extreme frustrations. The feeling that our younger generations from yore have come forward to change a situation, but had no idea of what and how to do so, has seemingly become our destiny.
Tragedies in our  history are repeated, because we don’t learn from our mistakes. Empires grow, weaken and die for the same reasons. So, before going further on the repetition course, let’s take a timeout for reflection on our repeated mistakes.
Last week Kashmiri narratives and role of civil society was debated in some public functions. The only emotion that is specifically exhibited is anger. Most anger displays are not pure anger, but anger alloyed with other emotions, such as disgust. We seem to assume that anger is a simple and unitary emotion, and give only brief hints about managing it.

Mild campaign marks Islamabad

The mood of the electorate can well be gauged from their participation in election rallies, which until now has remained thin. There is every...

Shopian

Located in the south and south-west extremity of Kashmir valley, Shopian lies in close proximity of Pir Panjal mountain range. It is bound by...

Election’s moral battles

Parliament elections in J&K would have been a low key affair, but for two decisions by Election Commission of India – one pertaining to...

‘Judiciary needs scrutiny’

There is more to it than meets the eye. Ashok Agrwaal, a prominent Supreme Court lawyer who authored the SAFHR’s report on writ of...