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Entrepreneurship

Off late, Jammu and Kashmir has emerged as the major player in helping young men and women to have their own ventures and start-ups. This section features the most successful players who have evolved into role models in a state that has a comparatively higher unemployment rate.

Business Of Tear Smoke

In the recent years of unrest, young Kashmiris were often found on the frontlines, pelting stones in protest. But as Mukeet Akmali reports, three...

Dominating From Hills

A young man, who fought poverty to study management, finally chased his dream and created an exclusive manufacturing facility in a non-industrial space near...

Poultry In Pain

Almost half of the poultry farms in Lassipora are shut as others have reduced their rearing capacity. The sector requires quick attention as this...

Undoing EDI

Second attack in eight months has pushed the EDI into space-scarce that may force it operate from the tents for the time being. In...

Soft and easy

A new entrepreneurship programme for unemployed youth providing soft loans instead of subsidy is being launched to circumvent the cumbersome processes involved in starting...

Reinventing Baking

She started with baking cakes for friends and relatives to satisfy her creative yearnings. A home science graduate, Farah Tanki now aims to add...

Multi Talented

At 22 he has trained professionals across India and worked with some of the best global companies. Irfan Rashid talks to Yasir Zahoor Rather,...

Remodelling Kitchens

After passing through a testing phase of life, Tariq Masood Malik from Kishtwar managed to do something which eventually ended Jammu’s monopoly on Kishtwar...

Lending, But Not Banks

As banks are in the race of deposits and advances, there are two government institutions scripting new successes with negligible default, reports Riyaz Ul...

America Calls

From a call center employee to the owner of call centers with some of them offshore, Zameer Altaf is living his dream.  Saima Rashid...

A Renewed Interest

The negative connotations associated with sheep farming as the calling of backward class of society is fast changing as highly qualified youth see it...

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...

Warming Up Kashmir Homes

An engineer is working hard to warm up Kashmir homes by incorporating a customised central heating system. Rise in living standards is helping make...

The Transformer

He always dreamed of having his own independent business. Today, Nisar Baba’s manufacturing unit has developed into an award-winning company with uncompromising quality. Shams...

A Steady Partnership

Two childhood friends quit their respective jobs to try their luck in advertising. Faisal Shabir Bhat profiles their journey so far In late 2012 two...