Why Lockdown Alone Is Not Enough?
by Mir Muhammad Nayyar Azam
In an attempt to break the chain, India anticipated the coronavirus crisis and announced a lockdown. India took the lead...
Virtual Costs
As Covid19 pushed the world towards the tiny phone screens, it has started severely impacting the new generation. Zakia Qurashi talks to experts to...
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...
Deconstructing SARS-CoV-2
A cure to the Covid-19 disease triggered by Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is too distant but there are a lot of things that we must know...
What Makes SARS-CoV-2 a Difficult to Tackle Bug?
by Dr Muzafar Jan
For the third time in as many decades, a zoonotic coronavirus (CoV) has crossed species to infect human populations. Until the...
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...
Failing The Education Test
by Riyaz Wani
The charges extracted from the students should be in direct proportion to the quality of the services rendered and to the extent...
Sleeping Shangus
An abrupt detection of a series of Covid-19 infections down-south led authorities to strictly impose restrictions. Umar Khurshid spent a day locating the problems...
Coronavirus: Is The World Order Changing?
by Syed Suhail Yaqoob
The world has seen many bad times. There have been wars, and plagues on an unprecedented scale. The Spanish flu in...
The Oxygen Grid
With more people requiring Oxygen therapy to fight back Covid19 and its virulent mutated variants, Khalid Bashir Gura goes on an Oxygen audit on...
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...
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,...
Locked Down, Jobless
As the counter pandemic lockdown prolongs, thousands of people in unorganised and transporter, retail and services sectors are literally jobless. Left to fend for...
Educator Par Excellence
A trained engineer and a passionate teacher holds his class in an open ground well before the sunrise and this model of teaching in...
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....
