Kashmir’s Fertility Fall
From 3.1 children per woman in 1991 to 1.4 in 2021, Kashmir is confronted with an above-average fall in the fertility rate. Fazil Buchh...
The Awantipora Molecule
Merely moving ahead of the embryonic stage, the IUST’s Watson-Crick Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCCMM) is expected to be a major address for research...
The Azad Factor
Half a century later, after Ghulam Nabi Azad parted ways with Congress, it triggered a sort of crisis in Jammu and Kashmir, his home...
Doing Science In Kashmir
The lack of infrastructure was the key brain drain factor as researchers would choose better global institutions for doing science. Under an impressive plan...
Deconstructing A Protest
It looks so simple to register a protest. When the protest drags on for a month, sustaining it becomes a festering resource and emotional...
Taming Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) has seven global strains and some of them are defying the most modern therapies that science has evolved. Still one of the...
Separating the Entangled
As Kashmir turned abnormal, the parents of a 15-year-old literally bundled and flew him to London for studies. Separated from home and his parents,...
Fading Snowlines
With Western Disturbances moving all the greenhouse gases from the Atlantic to the Pir Panchal peaks, Kashmir is gradually emerging as a collateral victim...
That Sinking Feeling
Even after 13 lakh tourist arrivals and a lot of interventions announced by the government, the economy on the eve of Eid is indicating...
Inside Kashmir’s Seminary Network
Kashmir’s formal education system owes its evolution to medieval Khanqah education and Maktab teaching. Kashmir still has an impressive seminary network and Dr Nisar...
Enabling Better Schooling
Poplars in Kashmir and the people in Pulwama have been acknowledged as key contributors to reducing India’s dependence on imports in managing the pencil...
Sopore of My Childhood
While offering the first-hand account of his birth and upbringing in Sopore, the ninth-century town, scientist and clinician, Dr M Sultan Khuroo details the...
Semthan Secrets
Located between the highway and Jhelum is Bijbehara’s Semthan. Home to a cluster of archaeological ruins, it is Kashmir’s only spot where humans’ have...
A Quantum Model
Kashmir’s young quantum physicist, Rukhsan ul Haq tells Khalid Bashir Gura his long story from a dusky central Kashmir village to the IBM Quantum,...
The New Learning Curve
The implementation of the new education policy (NEP2020) has inordinately delayed the admissions at the undergraduate level as the authorities have joined the national...