Childbirths In Pandemic
At a time when Kashmir’s Coronavirus caseload is soaring past 5000, the exponential rise in the number of infected pregnant women has raised fears...
China And The UT
After Delhi undid the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and reorganised the state into two federally governed Union Territories in 2019, Beijing had...
Locked Down, Jobless
As the counter pandemic lockdown prolongs, thousands of people in unorganised and transporter, retail and services sectors are literally jobless. Left to fend for...
No Cherry Blossom
With part of the apple already lost, it is now cherry and strawberry paying the pandemic costs. The two most delicate fruits with lowest...
Cursed Apple
With partial lockdown still in place, and around 20 thousand metric tonnes of apple still in CA stores across Kashmir, farmers and traders are...
A Hundred Years Later
The Spanish Flu that brought the world on its knees by killing almost five crore people exactly a century earlier has visited Kashmir also. Though...
Worried Warriors
Doctors, paramedics and biotechnology scholars, currently on the frontline in the battle against Covad-19are delivering efficiently. They, however, regret that the system, their management...
Covid Champions
Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...
A Silent Ramzan
As the Covid-19 pandemic has dictated its new rules, there would not be any congregational prayers, grand Iftaar’s and the lockdown will have an...
Being Covid-19 Positive
Avoided by family and isolated at hospitals, the patients go through a gruelling ordeal on their path to recovery, reveals Saima Bhat
On March 16,...
Hatched In Quarantine?
After the first of the 43 Umrah pilgrims tested positive, panicky health officials drove 11 of them to a 2-room PHC for fortnight-long quarantine....
Back Home
Jammu and Kashmir lost four individuals to the Coronavirus and three young men to the dread of the ongoing lockdown. As people squeezed to...
Surviving on Margins
Exclusive focus on tracing, testing and treating the Covid-19 cases is threatening the lives of patients suffering from other serious ailments reports Samreena Nazir
It...
Virus of Stigma
Blaming the Covid-19 patients for their disease is weakening the efforts to control it, reports Saima Bhat
After walking out of a hotel along Boulevard...
Besieged By Coronavirus
As the world scrambles to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, fear and anxiety have gripped Kashmir too. Saima Bhat reports about how people have started coping...
