A Model Library
MA young under-grad sets up a library out of his own pocket money to manage the book deficit for students in the north Kashmir...
‘Right Now, We Do Not Have An Effective TB Vaccine’
Tuberculosis is one of the most investigated diseases on earth but the bacteria-driven malady continues to be one of the major killers. Kashmir microbiologist,...
‘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,...
‘I Am Trying to Unravel How Psychobiotics Communicate with the Brain and Alleviate Mental...
With three post-doctorates in three countries, microbiologist Dr Basit Yousuf has been working on bacteria for almost a decade now. Currently working at the...
The Life Romance
A set of photographs showing the Srinagar romance of a couple – an American pilot and a British hostess, has been in circulation for...
A Sweeping Shift
In anticipation of the tabling of the proposed public universities bill in the Lok Sabha, Yawar Hussain interacted with the academicians to understand how...
Remodelling Universities
A draft bill is making sweeping changes in the system of managing the universities in Jammu and Kashmir, reports Yawar Hussain
The newly formulated Jammu and...
‘There Is No Direct Evidence of Making Humans Immortal’
Young Kashmir scientist, Dr Abdul Wajid Bhat is credited for finding the protein Kinase CK2 that regulates chromatin-modulating factors. In a conversation, he offers...
Kashmir Gems
The costliest and most fascinating Sapphire from Padder Mountains continues to remain unmatched across the globe. Though the mining is halted for more than...
A Battle for Schooling Kashmir
The Christian missionaries had to fight a despotic ruler, a superstitious society and a looter bureaucracy for a long time before they succeeded in...
‘I Wanted These Children to Have the Childhood That Was Denied to Me’
As the Kashmir situation deteriorated in the 1990s, Noor ul Owase Jeelani was flown out to London by his parents. He studied medicine and...
No Dismal Performance
Even though the students from Jammu and Kashmir under-performed numerically in comparison to the national average but the sheer number and the merit indicate...
‘We Are Exploring Ways and Means to Generate Novel Vaccines Against Plant Diseases.’
After spending seven years at the world-famous Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry (Munich Germany) researching Rubisco, the most abundant protein on earth and deconstructing...
The Awantipora Molecule
Merely moving ahead of the embryonic stage, the IUST’s Watson-Crick Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCCMM) is expected to be a major address for research...
Kashmir’s Khadims’
In Kashmir’s last two centuries, history has recorded two Khadim’s who contributed in different fields. One Khadim was the scion of a migrant family...
