Semthan Secrets
Located between the highway and Jhelum is Bijbehara’s Semthan. Home to a cluster of archaeological ruins, it is Kashmir’s only spot where humans’ have...
Legendary Ali Jan
One of Kashmir’s top gastroenterologists and researchers who once headed the SKIMS, Dr M Sultan Khuroo explains why Dr Ali M Jan was a...
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,...
The New Learning Curve
The implementation of the new education policy (NEP2020) has inordinately delayed the admissions at the undergraduate level as the authorities have joined the national...
Kashmir 1783
When George Forster visited Kashmir in 1783 spring, it was Azad Khan ruling the roost in Srinagar. He has recorded the state and status...
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...
New Generation, New Education
The New Education Policy 2020 is aimed at revolutionising the educational set-up and making the new generation acquire the basics that the evolved market...
Kashmir 1783
British traveller and East India Company official, George Forster (died 1792) is the first Englishman who journeyed from India through Central Asia to Russia....
A Wrestler, Builder
For many people who escaped Kashmir’s famine and oppression during the nineteenth century, fate had decided to bestow them with bigger roles in bigger...
Course Correction
Kashmir’s seminary network is acknowledging the concerns but it would require strong societal backing to encourage the Dar-ul-Ulooms’ to start producing skilled people so...
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’s Yarkand Links
With Yarkand Sarai, one of the trading landmarks in Srinagar, in the focus of recent government intervention, Kashmir’s Silk Route memories have revived. Scholar...
Historian Hangloo
On the eve of the publication of his ninth major book, historian Prof Rattan Lal Hangloo spent a few days in Srinagar after a...
