‘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...
‘Western Disturbances Run Riot with Kashmir’
Predicting a serious crisis in the near future, VC IUST, Prof Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, an earth scientist, tells Humaira Nabi that a huge surge...
Tread With Care
Under a uniform academic calendar, March Session has been reintroduced in Kashmir. Concerned citizens believe it will deprive students of around 70-days of learning...
Schooling In 1947
Educational institutions have existed in Kashmir in all eras for the last many centuries. However, they were less accessible to certain people in some...
‘Each Cell has Its Own Autonomy, but It gets Disrupted If Other Processes Fail’
After spending many years searching for plausible explanations for the make and break within DNA, Dr Altaf Bhat, the Coordinator at the Centre for...
Doing Science In Kashmir
The lack of infrastructure was the key brain drain factor as researchers would choose better global institutions for doing science. Under an impressive plan...
Moorcroft’s Kashmir Days
East India Company’s veterinarian and stud manager, William Moorcroft is the most referred author about early nineteenth century Kashmir. While living in Srinagar between...
Subhan Hajam: Kashmir Barber Who Decimated Prostitution
When Kashmir's despots pushed women into prostitution to improve their tax kitty, a barber sacrificed almost everything in his crusade against the flesh trade....
Trout Take Off In Kashmir
Introducing trout was one of the many contributions that Raj made during Kashmir’s darkest era in the nineteenth century. Offering details of how the...
Subhan Hajam’s Legendary Battle
As singing got into dancing and the nautch into prostitution, the Kashmir governor’s in Sikh and Dogra eras saw pleasure and money in the...
‘I Studied at A Jabri School Where We Had Good Teachers’
Former Director SKIMS, Dr M Sultan Khuroo is just not a successful gastroenterologist only. During the last four decades, he discovered Hepatitis-E in Kashmir,...
Taming Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) has seven global strains and some of them are defying the most modern therapies that science has evolved. Still one of the...
‘Leishmaniasis Is A Poor Man’s Disease So Big Co’s Merck or Pfizer Don’t Touch...
Kashmir scientist, Dr Hira Lal Nakhasi, currently a Director at US’s FDA, has worked to solve many riddles but his key contribution has been...
