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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.

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,...

Cementing Feat

After earning incentives and prized posts in private sector, a young professional from South Kashmir decided to invest his time and efforts to set...

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...

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...

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....

Remodelling Kitchens

After passing through a testing phase of life, Tariq Masood Malik from Kishtwar managed to do something which eventually ended Jammu’s monopoly on Kishtwar...

Dream Apple

With government and business fleecing apple for votes and notes, nobody thought of any intervention that could take it even closer to the larger...

Rolling Junction

Engineering confused him, designs disillusioned him before business completed him. And today, a Bandipora boy is successfully running a fast food hangout in Srinagar....

Smiling At Success

Life was full of remorse for young Tashi of Leh who first became tourist guide and then a computer centre operator to flip fortunes....

Healthy Muthi

Schooled in Ganderbal periphery during the peak of strife, Jitender Kumar left his college midway as the family decided to migrate in 1998. He...

Highway Heavyweight

His loath for government job and bitterness for private sector landed him in entrepreneurship. With his business and marketing acumen, Batote’s Waseem Akram swung...

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...