Trekking For 2G
Not far away from the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector, students climb to a hilltop to catch the low-speed mobile signal to...
‘This Winter, Have Good Food, Stay Warm And Avoid Cold’
SKIMS Pulmonary and Internal Medicine Consultant Dr Syed Mudasir Qadri tells HirraAzmat
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What are the most common pulmonary diseases and disorders found in Kashmir?
DR Syed...
Covid-19: 1430 Deaths After
Seven months into the Coronavirus pandemic, Jammu and Kashmir is struggling to cope with the rising number of infections and deaths. With winter approaching,...
‘What Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger’
A Specialty Registrar Doctor in Psychiatry in the hospitals of Oxford Deanery, Dr Shah Tarfarosh is an Oxford University post-graduate with an impressive track...
Back to Cycling
Protracted lockdowns have increased sedentary lifestyle forcing the new generation to embrace cycling to manage part of the obesity load. It is helping the...
Schools On Distress Sale
So far, Kashmir’s public discourse surrounded the loss of school days and the sluggish 2G in the education’s online circus. Silently but surely, the...
Unreal Class, Real Tensions
Teachers recount the travails of delivering online lectures at 2G speed, reports Umar Mukhtar
At 8 am, Rafia, a school teacher, keeps her cell phone connected...
Unmasked, Literally
Refusal to follow safety protocols by the people and lax enforcement of the law by the administration is behind the surge in the number...
‘Examinations Will Be Conducted Off-Line’
Jammu and Kashmir’s Education Commissioner Dr Asgar H Samoon tells Kashmir Life, insisting that the department’s experimentation with remote teaching using a sluggish internet speed was...
Do You Know, Covid-19 Infection Has 8 Symptoms On The Skin Alone?
by Michael Freeman
We’ve seen reports of skin symptoms ranging from “Covid toes” to hair loss, and different types of rashes. Some skin symptoms appear...
Gasping For Breath
In the absence of treatment, the basic requirement for managing the Covid-19 cases is oxygen. As the existing infrastructure in the health sector is...
Longest Recess
Except for a fortnight-long reopening of educational institutions in March, the lingering yearlong security siege now melded with Covid-19 lockdown has effectively turned Kashmir...
A Cancer Fighter
As the Coronavirus overwhelms the healthcare facilities in Kashmir, depriving seriously ailing non-Covid patients of a place for treatment, the Cancer Society of Kashmir...
The Plasma Plan
In the absence of any treatment, the doctors in Kashmir are now using Convalescent Plasma Therapy to treat a certain section of Covid-19 patients...
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...
