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Kashmir Science

Identifying and profiling the scientists from Jammu and Kashmir and detailing the struggles they put in to make doing science their career, this section highlights their contributions to the world knowledge pool across diverse spheres of science. It also includes reportage about innovation and incubation and profiles of various innovators.

A Quantum Model

Kashmir’s young quantum physicist, Rukhsan ul Haq tells Khalid Bashir Gura his long story from a dusky central Kashmir village to the IBM Quantum,...

Gene Editing Professor

Scared of blood, biochemistry scholar Tanveer Ahmad decided to get into the sub-microscopic maze of genetic engineering and hunt for cures to critical diseases...

The Proud Shepherd

A boy who was being encouraged to follow his father and graze herds in the Pir Panchal jungles decided to study sciences and was...

Kashmir Scientists’ Team Develops Crucial Tool That Helps Understand Brain Disorders

SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri researcher at the Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has led a team of scholars in developing an optogenetic tool that can help...

Kashmir Virologist In Breakthrough American Research On Rift Valley Fever Virus

by Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: In the latest breakthrough, researchers at Washington University in the United States have discovered how the deadly Rift Valley Fever...

Kashmir Woman Honoured For Landmark Innovation

by Tahir Bhat SRINAGAR: The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind bestowed Nari Shakti Puraskar on Kashmir woman innovator, Nasira Akhter on Tuesday, on...

Shelling The Nut

People in the private and public sectors are working overtime to discover the endless opportunities that Kashmir’s famed walnut offers. If the nut is...

Kashmir Scholar Bags Rare US Fellowship, Will Work With Pharma Giant Moderna

by Yawar Hussain SRINAGAR: Dr Javid Iqbal, a resident of Quil village of Bandipora has bagged the prestigious Northeastern University fellowship in the United States...

Kashmiri Harvard Scientist’s Genetically Engineered Cell-Based Brain Tumour Therapy Featured Among 12 Technologies That...

SRINAGAR: In the just concluded World Medical Innovation Forum, the 12 medical emerging gene and cell therapy (GCT) that were featured included one piloted by...

Mind Games: Meet Kashmir Neuroscientist Who Bagged US$1.8 Million Fellowship

SRINAGAR: Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, has received the prestigious CAREER award from the National...

The Struggling Scientist

An inspirational story of a boy from a very humble origin who fought odds and to finally study in a prestigious global university, reports Saifullah...

Frontline Innovator

As Covid-19 spread and the government locked Kashmir down, Farooz Ahmad devoted his time to making face shields for the doctors and other frontline...

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...

‘People who benefit from the status quo try to kill innovations’

After his PhD from the JNU, Sheikh Fayaz Ahmad joined the School of Management of the Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou (China) as an Innovations...
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‘Ice Stupas Were Copied In Switzerland, Skardu, Peru and Sikkim’

People who watched Amir Khan’s Three Idiots might not have forgotten the character named Phunsukh Wangdu. He is a living legend of Ladakh who...