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Friday, May 17, 2024
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Interview

This is a simple Q and A on issues that matter with the experts and practitioners who hold the answers. Interviews are across the various facets of life including politicians, artists, businessmen, academics and social activists.

“In 90’s young Kashmiris were angry but scared and now they are angry and...

Former BBC journalist Andrew Whitehead covered Kashmir conflict extensively during troubled 90’s. On his recent visit to Srinagar, Saima Rashid talks to him about...

‘We Need To Prepare Ourselves For The Worst’

Prominent urologist, Dr M Salim Wani was stung by the contagion forcing him to get into nightmarish isolation. Caught between ostracisation and cytokine crisis, he overcame...

‘India Nearly Eliminated Malaria in the 1950s, but The Success Was Mismanaged’

Srinagar-born biochemist, Dr Altaf Lal wore many hats in his career. A researcher, and a public health expert, he has been into health diplomacy,...

‘You are sort of an outcaste if you dare to leave a government job...

Aijaz Rashid, 30, a researcher from Arwah in Budgam who is working on a cancer drug which is 8 times more effective than the...

Kinetic Khan

After being the longest-serving chief executive of J&K Bank and making it state’s first and the only listed company, Muhammad Yousuf Khan, the man...

‘DAK Should Ask People To Use Electricity Judiciously’

Chief Engineer PDD, Aijaz A Dar tells Umar Mukhtar KASHMIR LIFE (KL): Winters have set in and the power curtailments have also returned. Is this how the winters...

‘You Name It, We Have It’

Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary who heads the Mission Youth and Tribal Affairs Department tells Tahir Bhat about the ‘ever evolving’ and the demand-driven mission that is aimed...

‘We Have Found Three Inhibitors That Reduce Pain During Cancer’

Dr Muzaffar A Macha has been a ‘golden boy’ throughout. At AIIMS and abroad and now home as head of IUST’s Watson-Crick Centre for...

‘CM is invested more in Delhi’

“The country (India) has not acceded with the people of Kashmir but with a particular party or family. They (New Delhi) are not ready...

‘SC Verdict Has Far Reaching Consequences In Future’

Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, the Managing Editor of Kashmir Times went to the Supreme Court against the communication blockade that Jammu and Kashmir is passing...

Dubai Details

The liberal industrial policy has led to the acceptance of around Rs 50K crore investment proposals in less than a year, of which Rs...

‘Our Molecule As A Potential Drug Showed Promising Results In Preventing Prostate Cancer’

Srinagar-born scientist, Dr Hanief Shahjee, provides insights into his research journey in chemistry, encompassing his PhD in bio-sciences and Post Doc in molecular biology...

“I believe we require an idiot among these wise statesmen”

NC’s Rajya Sabha member, Ghulam Nabi Rattanpuri, who has been at loggerheads with his party for over a year now, pours his heart out...

“I am trying to convince students to start their own units, like opening a...

A 1999 batch KAS officer, Shabnum Shah Kamli, heads state’s Department of Technical Education (DTE).She tells Syed Asma, despite huge potential to change lives,...

‘We do not know which strain of the mutating virus is active right now’

Dr A G Ahanger, Director SKIMS Srinagar tell Masood Hussain in a freewheeling interview KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the state and status of the battle against the Covid-19 in...