‘IUST Has Filed 28 Patents’
Almost 40 days after Dr Shakil A Romshoo, Kashmir’s foremost earth scientist, took over as the Vice-Chancellor of the IUST, he told Khalid Bashir...
Reviving An Art
Caught by immobility dictated by situation and pandemic, a number of girls started reviving the forgotten art of calligraphy and some of them were...
‘Online Teaching Lacks An Impact Unlike Offline Class Work’
As higher educational set-up is gradually limping back towards offline mode, Director Education, Kashmir Tasaduq Hussain talks about the challenges in the last two...
Kabul’s Kashmir Misrule
For almost 66 years, unruly Pathan warlords ruled Kashmir with a hunter in hand and eye on their subjects' purses. There are detailed historical...
Before The Kabul Retreat
Described as the ‘Graveyard of Empires’, Afghanistan was always termed to be at peace when it was at war. But the land-locked desert country...
1885 Earthquake
Kashmir owes a lot to the British doctor duo, the Neve Brothers, the missionaries who were running the Mission Hospital. Here is the first-hand...
Urdu In Dogra Rule
By the fall of the nineteenth century, Urdu had effectively replaced Persian as the language of the court and emerged as the new lingua...
Kashmir’s Botrajas
On the slopes of the Srinagar fort is a cluster of homes that represent the little Hunza in Kashmir. Its emergence is wowen in...
Online Un-learning
The transition from teacher-class based teaching to digital education has not been smooth in Kashmir, nor is it helping students to learn, reports Khalid...
Deaths By Drowning
Around 35 people, most of them minors, have drowned while bathing in streams and ponds to beat the scorching sun. This has triggered calls...
Kashmir’s Constitutional Reforms 1939
The assembly in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the many outcomes of the July 13, 1931 massacre. Recommended by a British officer JB...
Broken Contract
Hundreds of contractual lecturers working for years at various higher secondary schools and colleges were abruptly disengaged after August 2019. Now, in their late...
The British Babus’
Kashmir history owes a lot to a number of British officers who helped the exploited residents to get certain rights that the East India...
Wise Decisions
Youngsters in Kashmir have started taking control of their education. This year, three students bagged UWC scholarships for International Baccalaureate diploma at select United...
Two Videos, Two Stories
For the last many years, social media is triggering decision-making within the government and society. Last week demonstrated it yet again when the Jammu...
