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...
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...
Veg Wonders
Urbanization forced city vegetable growers look for cheap land and labour in the periphery. Bugam in Budgam had both. But as outsiders started reaping...
