An Apple A Day
As fruit industry has seen a significant makeover over recent years. Javaid Naikoo reports on how the industry is staying close to home for...
Google Goes Gaga in Kashmir
When a Google team visited Kashmir last week, many young would-be entrepreneurs felt their e-dreams energized. Shams Irfan reports on what the Google-power visit...
Path to Majesty
Mughal Road has opened lanes of benefit to varied sectors of society. Javaid Naikoo reports on how this road lures some to love, and...
Knock on Wood
timber is quickly being replaced by foreign timber. As Abdul Mohamin reports, carpenters say there’s more than one reason why they prefer it. Lately,...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
A marble manufacturing unit has been lying unused for a quarter of a century, depriving locals of a livelihood. As Mudasir Majeed reports, the...
Sand Diggers
On a pleasant September morning, Mohammad Sidiq, a sand-digger in his early 30s, pushes his long wooden boat out onto the River Jhelum, which...
Big Repora Grapes
Besides Italy, Repora village in Kashmir is perhaps the only place in the world where fresh grapes are available. And, this Kashmiri grape is...
Pizza Frenzy
Fast food culture is growing fast in Kashmir with young people preferring pizzas, burgers and other junk food to traditional foods. Khurram Rasool tracks the...
A Chicken Farm Village
Failure and closure of a big chicken farm in Parigam, that employed many villagers, could have pushed the village into economic depression. But one...
Big Business Malls
The concept of shopping malls may have offered some people big business opportunities on the peripheries of Srinagar but some of them have not...
J&K Obliges Taxman
People in J&K pay more to income tax than to the state power department. While the power tariff collections in the state were around...
Business And Blessings
Some businesses go into a month-long hibernation during Ramadan but the fasting month also means brisk business in some food items generally not consumed...
In Love With Textiles
A widely traveled English woman’s love for fabrics and Kashmiri rugs brings her back to the valley despite dealing with consequences of a stroke...
Enabling Entrepreneurship
Unemployment, disincentivized entrepreneurship, corruption and the conflict in Kashmir are all very intricately linked. Ikhlaq Qadri brings us the highlights of an intense exercise...
Big Bee Business
Many unemployed youth are finding a promising future in beekeeping which is coming up as a prospective small-scale business avenue in unemployment ridden Kashmir,...
