“If you are good, you will always be appreciated, as long as you are...
Born in the mountainous Doda district, Nida Haji, 36, is emerging as a distinct professional in the USA’s mortgage banking. Termed as one of...
Dry Port: A Port Nowhere Near A Sea
by Zubair Lone
Recently, J&K state finance minister, in his budget speech for 2018-19, announced a dry port, each in Jammu and Kashmir regions. In...
Managing 1947 Mayhem
After the erstwhile J&K state was sliced into two halves amid massive demographic upheavals, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was the...
To Bagh-e-Mehtaab
Kashmir has moved from the love for Bollywood to a participant in Bollywood. Zulkifla Shakeel meets Zain Khan Durrani, the latest actor who plays...
Rehbar-e-Taleem, KAS
A labourers son living in a backward, nondescript village, Muzaffar was earning as ReT and preparing for KAS, an examination he finally cracked in...
In Avanitvarman’s Capital
When the Islamic University was established in the deserted foothills of Awantipore, the naysayers said the campus hardly suits a small highway town, home...
Did Sheikh Abdullah go to office in a car seized from Air Marshall Asgar...
by Masood Hussain
SRINAGAR: The death of Air Marshal Asgar Khan has triggered a chain of mournings and remembrances on the social websites. The reason:...
Restricted Knowledge
Once the home to Sharda Peath, the medieval university in subcontinent, Kashmir with a millennium of recorded history is still struggling to get into...
The KAS Case
Kashmir’s participation in the state civil services has remained phenomenally low, historically. This year of the 51 candidates, who cracked the examination, only 13...
Thank you, Korea! After PhD, a Kashmiri scholar puts his appreciation on record
Schooled in a modest privately run school at Kanipora, the resident of Shurat in Kulgam did his graduation from the degree college in South...
The Anatomy of Landslides
by Zubair Lone
Among the various measures that can be applied to reduce hazardous consequences of landslides, the Jammu and Kashmir State Disaster Management Plan mentions, “apply...
Understanding Kashmiri
The only Englishman who is more famous in Kashmir than the UK is Sir Walter R Lawrence, the man who’s functioning as Kashmir’s land...
Dubai Dreams
Job consultancies that have mushroomed in Kashmir are preying on the lower middle class and making quick millions. In absence of a regulation system,...
Autumn Windfall
With more than half of the 150 thousand fresh admissions, every autumn, opting for private sector schools, the costs of educating the new generation...
Food for Thought
by Zubair Lone
Recently, the Global Nutrition Report 2017 was released at the Global Nutrition Summit in Milan, Italy. It acts as an independent report card...
