A Kazak In Kashmir
She was studying in Kazakhstan where she fell in love with a Kashmiri medical student. Finally, they landed in Kashmir where the Kazak bride...
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...
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...
Plastic Millionaires
The ever-increasing consumption is massively throwing heaps of plastic, iron and paper packaging almost everywhere in urban and peripheral Kashmir. It is a huge...
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...
Smart Technique
A young man who studied industrial techniques in the state-run polytechnic college skipped a job hunt and instead set up a vocational training centre....
Desert Apples
They are only four people who operated from a small office outside Leh’s airport. With an active support system within the organisation and the...
Lahori Designs
As her husband failed to get a job after they returned home with two daughters, the Pakistani wife of a Baramulla resident, revived her...
The Silken Knot
Vested interest, negative policy interventions, market shifts and nature intervened in the unmaking of the world’s biggest silk factory in Kashmir. As cocoon production...
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...
“I am trying to convince students to start their own units, like opening a...
A 1999 batch KAS officer, Shabnum Shah Kamli, heads state’s Department of Technical Education (DTE).She tells Syed Asma, despite huge potential to change lives,...
Wazwaan @ Doorstep
Now Kashmiri Wazwaan is just a click away. After they quit their less paying jobs, two brothers decided to tickle people’s taste buds by...
Weaving Wonders
Two friends are determined to revive the once famous art of crochet or Koereshi, by using social media. Heena Muzzafar met the duo to...
The Climber
He proved his critics wrong by setting up a million dollar worth mentoring start-up. Tabish Rafiq Mir maps its journey across half-a-dozen cities
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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...
