38-Year-Old Collapses While Playing Volleyball, Dies Of Cardiac Arrest
SRINAGAR: A 38-year-old man died of a cardiac arrest while playing a volleyball match at Naidkhai village of Sonawari in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district...
Orchard Massacres
The Forest Department issued notices to all the ‘encroachers’ everywhere. But a patch on Budgam-Pulwama border was the only place across Jammu and Kashmir...
Flowering business
Many people are taking up floriculture as business and some are doing well, though a lot needs to be done to improve the trade...
Legacy Lasts
For decades Babademb’s walnut factory has helped many destitute and needy women to survive the onslaught of circumstances and society. Syed Asma takes a...
Royal Nuts
For five weeks every fall, Sweet Chestnuts sell roasted on the Srinagar city streets at a cost not matched by any other fruit. Humaira...
A FOR APPLE
With Rs 2500 crore plus turnover, the Apple cart is the main mover and shaker of Kashmir’s countryside economy. Marketing the produce was a...
Spewing Black
Quick cash was the key factor for hundreds of farmers in Budgam to lease their lands to brick kiln owners. Decades later, they have...
High Density, High Hopes
For the first time in many years, Kashmir is expected to consume a record number of high-density plants this fall. The driving force is...
Aspiring Asparagus
A highly nutritious vegetable that grows in Kashmir and has huge demand in the West. Owing to government apathy, asparagus is on the verge...
Female bat better
The lack of a female buddy in cricket can land a batsman in trouble! Well, you can’t score centuries. At least, not at the...
Driving Nuts
Water chestnuts harvested from Wullar lake have helped Kashmir survive the worst days in the last 250 years. Considered the best food for diabetics,...
APPLE TOWN’S CRISIS
Kashmir’s biggest fruit Mandi in Sopore where traders from across the Indian subcontinent converge to purchase apples produced in orchards of north Kashmir is...
The New Volunteers
Watching the farmers facing a crisis in paddy harvesting, groups of well educated youth started helping them volunatrilty and the trend has the potential...
The Apple Crush
Kashmir is India’s main apple cart but it is yet to adopt the best market practices that are in vogue in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh. Masood...
Roshni Rackets Darken Energy Futures
Conceived by Abdul Rahim Rather to light up the state and its resources, the Roshni Scheme had a darkened delivery by Ghulam Nabi Azad....
