How Iran Is fighting Pandemic and Sanctions?

It is challenging to fight a scourge like Coronavirus when the managers have mass spread on one hand and a ban from accessing global...

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...

Does Islam Guide In Situations Like Coronavirus Pandemic?

As the Coronavirus has made its entry into the Muslim world, there have been a series of interventions at different levels to fight the...

Unmasked

For most of its history, Kashmir remained hidden behind multiple masks, literally and metaphorically. In wake of a looming Coronavirus threat, the people in...

‘There Is Question Mark On Government Readiness’

Dr Suhail Naik, President, Doctors Association Kashmir believes a Covid-19 outbreak in Kashmir can hobble an already fragile healthcare delivery system KL: Is our government...

How The Coronavirus Must Be Fought?

by Dr Suhail Naik Human coronaviruses (HCoVs) are an old family of RNA viruses. They are most frequently associated with the common cold and upper...

Kashmir’s Tehran Tension

As Kashmir’s historical Iran connection is being tested by the coronavirus spread, expert Kashmiri Iranians suggest against flying a few hundred students home because...

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...
Mother Initiative Shafakat was moved to start a school for special children in Shehr-e-Khas by the plight of her autistic child, reports Umar Mukhtar

Mother Initiative

Shafakat was moved to start a school for special children in Shehr-e-Khas by the plight of her autistic child, reports Umar Mukhtar Shafakat, 42, sits...

A Dream Painter

A Kashmiri family adopted an abandoned minor girl in Bangalore and brought her up for two decades. Now, restricted to a hospital bed for...
Cancer cells shown here with lymphocytes.

Caught by Cancer

There is no single stop where one can get the exact details of the state and status of cancer in Kashmir because the state...

Hospital Christmas

When Samreena Nazir joined the Christmas function of the small Christian community serving the John Bishop Memorial Hospital, it was a history tour to...

Saving Boukvat

Some doctors have joined hands to help the chronic kidney patients from the weaker sections and the effort is a success, reports Aaqib Hyder When...
Art Work by Malik Yasir

Mired Minds

The situation that emerged on August 5 has started taking a toll on the population’s mind-space. Sharing information reluctantly, psychiatrists believe the real load...
Patients outside the Block A’s OPD section. KL Image by Shah Hilal

Rodents And Obstetrics

As South Kashmir’s main maternity hospital operates from a rundown building, the mothers and the new born have to co-exist with rodents along with...