Successful entrepreneur, empowered woman
Mir Javeed profiles the success story of Nuzhat Maqbool, a young and successful entrepreneur, who is the only female distributor of Fast Moving Consumer...
Investment In Change
Investors are always on lookout for possibilities in a market. But in flood-devastated Kashmir that saw lot of investment across the sectors, three entrepreneurs...
A biscuit for health
As entrepreneurship in Kashmir takes roots, a businessmen is in the process of manufacturing biscuits from water chestnuts. Haroon Mirani reports.
A Srinagar based company...
Inhospitable, No More
Gone are the days when Dak Bungalow was the only address for travellers in Kargil. Over the years, hospitality sector is booming and the...
Fight to Chew
He managed to complete his studies by ferrying school children in an autorickshaw after college. Then to start a mobile restaurant he literally camped...
A Butterfly’s Journey
Had teenager Hina Nazir Sheikh known the costs of chasing her dream of opening a beauty parlour in trouble torn Kashmir, she might have...
Rearing a Living
He left a lucrative job outside Kashmir to start a dairy farm in his village. Adding one cow every three months, he has diversified...
Businessman with a heart
His customers often leave their contact numbers and identity proofs to get expensive medicines on credit. But in most such cases, he knows, he...
Village Educator
Orphaned at a time when he needed the support of his father, Showkat Allaie fought odds to complete his education. Finally, he decided to...
Corn on the go
A simple idea that came outside a movie theater in Qatar helped two engineer friends introduce sweet corn carts in Kashmir. Umar Mukhtar tells...
A lease of life
An integrated cold chain storage facility inaugurated last week has taken Kashmir’s cumulative CAS capacity to 13800-mts with the avowed objective of giving a...
Railing RIDE
After working as truck conductor and labourer early in his life, Niyaz Ali eventually becomes Kargil’s first entrepreneur to avail much-talked about EDI scheme....
Ideas Matter
It took a 10-member jury to travel 23 days across Jammu and Kashmir and listen to the ideas that young boys and girls had...
Seed Capital Fund Scheme
Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Policy for Youth (SKEWPY) was announced as ruling coalition’s flagship plan to manage unemployment by encouraging youth to become entrepreneurs....
Mobile Feat
When his heart no longer found connection with studies, Tariq Aziz from Banihal fringe left home to pick up mobile repairing skills, which later...
