How Is The Life In Self Quarantine?
by Saqib Majeed
As everyone around the world is in home-quarantine, so am I in my homeland Kashmir. Staying at home all the time is...
What Are The Covid-19 Lessons For India and Pakistan?
by Dr Altaf Ahmad Dar
One of the most emerging volatile zones for Covid-19 today apart from China, Italy, the USA, and Iran is India...
A Viral Vocabulary
The pandemic caused by the invisible Coronavirus has started dictating a new value system as part of its etiquettes regime. In order to understand...
Why Poor Lung Health Is A Key Kashmir Weakness In This Pandemic?
Among various other factors, that greatly increase the chances of getting infected to Covid-19, Poor Lung Health among Kashmir’s elderly population can significantly increase...
Why We Must Fight the Coronavirus Stigma More Than The Disease?
by Javaid Iqbal
I recently came across a newspaper article where a family man was asked by his local milkman not to visit him. The reason...
4G for Knowledge
In a world besieged by the virus, people are working from their homes, using the high-speed Internet. In Kashmir, more than 1.5 million students...
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...
The Quarantined Life
One of the priority operations of the government was to ensure the people flying from diverse destinations home, stay isolated for a fortnight. More...
Coronavirus: Can Nano Coatings and Sprays Help?
by Dr M A Shah
Infections have accompanied humans for millennia. In this twenty-first century, despite being in the era of antibiotics, which began...
Coronavirus: Why Should We Avoid Believing Rumours?
by Ikhlaq Qadri
It happened in the dead of night, dark and daunting. Rumours flew across the Kashmir that Thursday, March 26, could be the...
Swine Flu Days
Doctors in Kashmir think their experience of tackling swine flu a decade back will aid them in fighting Coronavirus, reports Khalid Bashir Gura
To combat...
Coronavirus Scare: Are Eggs, Mutton Safe?
by Zubair Ahmad War
The current Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc throughout the globe. Almost five lakh people have been affected by the viral disease....
Coronavirus: Are We Ready?
Poor infrastructure, lack of critical equipment for doctors, and poor coordination between government and experts indicates Kashmir is not as ready as the officials claim,...
Coronavirus: Can Ostracism Help Control The Virus?
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: As the first victim of the Coronavirus was laid to rest in Sopore Thursday afternoon, a key issue has cropped up...
Surviving Epidemics
Most of the epidemics that Kashmir history has witnessed were imported and they thrived on unhygienic environs, indifferent rulers and a superstitious clergy, reports...
