Online MBBS
The pandemic has forced the students enrolled with offshore medical schools to study virtually from home. This is putting a question mark over their...
Jail Worries
With the septuagenarian separatist dying of Covid-19 in a Jammu jail, hundreds of families are worried across Kashmir. Now the political class has requested...
Yatra. Really?
Amarnath pilgrimage could undo the painstaking efforts to control the virus in Kashmir, writes Riyaz Wani
With the annual Amarnath yatra drawing near, the Jammu...
Probing The Toll
With Kashmir having massive morbidity and Jammu leading in the mortality, a puzzled government is trying its best to locate the reasons responsible, reports...
Hatched In Quarantine?
After the first of the 43 Umrah pilgrims tested positive, panicky health officials drove 11 of them to a 2-room PHC for fortnight-long quarantine....
‘Food Can Build Your Capacity To Resist Covid19’
Beenish Zohra, a practising dietician and a clinical nutritionist, tells Farzana Nisar that good food plays an important role in building the immune system...
Shielding Doctors
As the virus jammed Wuhan in China and triggered a global appetite for personal protection equipment (PPE), a young innovator in Srinagar decided to...
Eating Right
DR SEEMIN RUBAB
In the present market driven economy our eating habits have changed drastically. Instead of natural healthy diet a shift towards processed unhealthy...
Fig: Fruit of the Paradise
By: Zeenat Farooq
Common Fig or Ficus Carica is a flowering plant of Moraceae (mulberry family). A native of Middle East and Western Asia, Fig...
Abuse of Antibiotics?
A Biotechnology Scholar, Zeenat Farooq, cautions about the use of Antibiotics and writes that mass awareness is need of the hour for both the...
Phone Blindness?
Busy parents may find some solace by giving their kids to play with their phones but doctors say the smart-phone abuse by kids is...
Why Online Classes Should Become Part Of Curriculum?
by Dr Reyaz Ahmad Ganaie
World today is facing the biggest challenge, the Covid-19 pandemic. It has affected one and all. With no cure in...
A Model Wasted
Deep down south, the government invested heavily in creating a model health centre. As it is waiting for inauguration, part of the precious equipment...
Why Virtual Classroom Is Not Efficient For Elementary Classes?
by Mukhtar Ahmad Farooqi
With the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown to break the chain of transmission across the globe, millions of...
Besieged By Coronavirus
As the world scrambles to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, fear and anxiety have gripped Kashmir too. Saima Bhat reports about how people have started coping...
