‘This Eid, Do Not Knock At Each Others’ Doors, Use Phone To Wish, Instead’
Dr Abdul Qayum Hamid Changal, a Kashmir's General Physician working for the Ministry of Health, in Saudi Arabia, debunks myths and addresses misconceptions linked...
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...
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...
‘Pregnant Women Must Avoid Visiting Hospital For Routine Check-ups’
Dr Nighat Firdous, one of the senior-most gynaecologists in Kashmir, is the Head of the Department, Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the women-exclusive Lala Ded...
In No Go Area
Unshakable faith in God and compassion for the ailing inspires Jameel Ahmad Digoo, an ambulance driver of the health department, to ferry Covid-19 positive...
Devastating Coverage
It is unlikely that there will be a leadership challenge to the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi but his political capital will not escape unscathed...
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,...
The Virus Hunter
At the forefront of the detection and control of the viral outbreaks within and outside the USA in the last more than 20 years...
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...
Earth’s Invisible Owners
His encounters with invisible contagions apart, Kashmir origin American epidemiologist, Dr Ali S Khan’s book offers fascinating simplification of the complex scientific processes and the significance...
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...
Tourists Return?
After 18 months of hiatus, the tourist footfalls have started surging in Kashmir. Insiders in the hospitality sector believe that if Gulmarg crowds are...
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...
Pandemic And Pandits
The ongoing pandemic hit the migrant Kashmiri Pandit community in Jammu, UP and Delhi so harshly that many think Covid19 killed more than the...