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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.

Enabling Better Schooling

Poplars in Kashmir and the people in Pulwama have been acknowledged as key contributors to reducing India’s dependence on imports in managing the pencil...

Eggless Address

A year after graduating, she married in a housewife-seeking baker family. As the pressure mounted to create resources to fund better education for her...

Crafting Cashmere

A typical young and restless from Old Srinagar was yearning to hit big, but life was no cakewalk for him. He took his odds...

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...

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...

Virtual Game

With more and more kids getting access to fast internet and smartphones, the Covid19 initiated restrictions have created a new generation of youth who...

A bag full of business

The ban on polythene carry bags has given fillip to sales of alternatives like paper bags, most of which are prepared locally. Majid Maqbool...

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...

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...

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 Call For Commitment

They’ve set a standard for quality, and continued work uninterrupted during the height of last year’s unrest in Kashmir. Shams Irfan explores one of...

Developing software

Irfan Mushtaq completed his engineering degree in computer sciences in 2005. Today, he is CEO of iKraft, a software company based in Kashmir. Ibrahim...

A Colourful Treat

Kashmiri weddings are often a hectic affair. But not anymore. Bin Yamin Gulzar, a pilot turned wedding planner is not only adding colours to...

Not Cowed Down

Resisting the family soldiering career, Sanjay Choudhary opted a diary unit. In four years, he has doubled his herd, pushed his production to nearly...

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...