Virtual Trade
With the Covid-19 pandemic dictating a new regime, most of the activities of life are getting into virtual mode. Owing to the communication blockade,...
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...
OBE Is The Alternative
by Nazir Ahmad Gilkar and Iqra Majeed Shah
Kashmir personifies a systemic, normalised clampdown. The shutdowns are usually a 100 to 200 days affair in a year. These...
‘Lockdowns Will Not Block Covid-19 Transmission Completely’
Acclaimed scientist, Prof Mohammad Sultan Khuroo’s significant contribution include the discovery of Hepatitis-E virus in 1978 from Kashmir when 1700 of an estimated 52000...
Smart Strategy Required?
The second wave of Covid-19 and its impact on the Kashmir economy can be managed by peoples’ participation and smart strategy writes Syed Suhail...
Covid Priority
It is vital to have Covid19 appropriate behaviour. But it is more important to retain Covid19 as the key priority in the governance policymaking....
Covid Champions
Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...
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...
Being Covid-19 Positive
Avoided by family and isolated at hospitals, the patients go through a gruelling ordeal on their path to recovery, reveals Saima Bhat
On March 16,...
Viral Fear
Kashmiris returning from Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus in China that has killed more than 2100 people, are quarantined in Delhi. As the health...
‘The Situation Is Grim’
The SKIMS Medical College Principal, Dr Riyaz Untoo is managing a major Covid-19 facility. He tells Syed Samreen that the cases are going to increase exponentially...
Follow SOPs
Gathering triggered by panic shopping prior to brief lockdowns is a cause of concern, writes Zahoor Malik
Lockdowns are not something new for the people...
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...
Virus of Stigma
Blaming the Covid-19 patients for their disease is weakening the efforts to control it, reports Saima Bhat
After walking out of a hotel along Boulevard...
Why Bayt al-Mal Is The Most Relevant Community Institution During Pandemic?
by Umair Rashid
The Bayt al-Mal (literally means ‘the House for money’) is used as an equivalent for the Treasury House where public funds are...
