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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.

Linking Kashmir

In an overcrowded job market finding a right opportunity is daunting task. Not anymore. Meet a social entrepreneur who will help find right job...

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...

Entrepreneurship: The ‘Best Solution’ to Curb Unemployment

By Bilal Ahmad Dar 'Curbing the unemployment problem in Kashmir through entrepreneurial development' Unemployment both of the educated and the uneducated manpower has become one of...

Unpolished Hope

Before it could have taken off Kashmir’s marble hub Batergam was turned into a garrison. A decade later when troops left, industrialists were taken...

Incandescent Incubator

Concerns mounted as militants stormed the EDI’s Pampore complex initiating a 48-hour  long gun-battle that consumed five security men, a civilian and three militants....

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...

Rising Blankets

After centuries of use, Kashmirs’ traditional Tchader has paved way for the synthetic blanket, at huge costs to the wool-abundant state. Now, Mohammad Raafi...

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...

Vet Ventures

With two major patents and an ISO 9001:2008 certification to his name Dr Fayaz Ganaie’s Truevet has put Kashmir on global pharmaceuticals map. Saima...

Model Couple

A designer couple from Leh gave up their lucrative jobs in Indian fashion industry, returned home, revived their umbilical connection with the huge talent...

Advancing Apples

The Mughal route town of Shopian is a booming economic centre. Producer of the best apples from the region, its business got impetus after...

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...

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...

Fighting It Out

It took little courage and a government initiative to change their lives around. Shakir Mir meets beneficiaries of Women’s Development Corporation to see how...

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,...