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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.

Android Orchards

With a lot of machines already involved in the apple growing in pre-harvest and post-harvest, it is the turn of taking information technology to...

Expensively Exclusive

Education is an evolving activity, so is the art of teaching and creation of educational infrastructure, tools and methods. R S Gull visits an...

Olympic Prize

He wanted to ensure the comfort of his parents, every genuine facility to his family and a helping hand to his own people. This...

Fish In Fashion

A news photographer created a social media page for selling pre-cooked Kashmir fish. He had forgotten the idea when orders landed in his in-box....

Sporting Carpets

Gazi Shakeel had his future turf laid when his love for sports made him to try his luck in sports infrastructure in Kashmir. Saima...

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...

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...

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...

Keeping Himayat afloat

A one-third success rate and a plethora of problems is the outcome of the ambitious Himayat in its first phase. But the union Rural...
Sharukh Khan with Khawar Jamsheed

Breaking Tradition

Khawar Jamsheed is the only line-producer from the valley who has tirelessly worked with Bollywood directors to bring them back to the scenic landscapes...

Scholarly Different

It was a friend’s visit to Kashmir that changed Mushtaq Ahmad Rather’s life forever and landed him in Tihar Jail for seven years. Once...

Electrifying Ambitions

After three decades of struggle with the system Naseer is happy to put Kashmir on transformer manufacturing map. Shakir Mir narrates his journey Naseer Ahmad,...

A Dream Realized

Having started her business with a loan of Rs 2 lakh, Jamsheeda is today the proud owner of the popular Pakeeza boutique on the...

Honey Sweet Success

An international NGO has helped train a group of bee farmers honey production. Syed Asma reports on the Bees for Business program of Mercy...

A vanishing aroma

Abdul Aziz Kozgar inherited the craft of making rosewater manually, but is unlikely to pass it on to the next generation. Shazia Yousuf talks...