Three Essential Tips to Create a Captivating Book Cover
Everyone says that it’s bad to judge a book by its cover. Yet, everyone does so. And that is one of the essential reasons...
Inventing for Have-Nots’
At NIT in Srinagar is a civil engineering professor who is passionate about machines. In the last few years, he has devised a basket...
Bucher’s Kashmir Papers
Though accessible to people in England, the Government of India continues to restrict access to a set of documents, the Bucher Papers that have...
‘We Are Trying to Understand the Pathogen Strategy’
After spending his entire research career at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, Dr M Ayub Qadri has joined IUST as Dean of...
‘Some Haakh Varieties Have High Anticancer Potential against Prostate and Lung Cancer Cells’
A junior scientist at SKUAST-K, Dr Khalid Zaffar Masoodi is an award-winning biotechnologist who has been working on cancer biology. Founder of Kashmir’s first...
Off The Shelf
An improvement in the literacy rate is not changing the age-old trend of avoiding books within and outside the classrooms. With the section of...
‘Failure In Detecting Early Is The Reason Behind High Mortality Rates In Cancer’.
After spending a lot of time trying to locate the particular molecules that play a role in diverse cancers, Dr Zahida Qamri changed her career path...
A Potato Culture
Working in SKUAST-K’s potato laboratory, a scholar was desperate for the MS media, a key ingredient for tissue culture but the lab lacked funds....
‘Our Gut Is Our Second Brain’
Kashmir neuroscientist, Dr Zahoor Shah, currently teaching at the University of Toledo, Ohio, is investigating the Gut-Brain axis in understanding various brain disorders, including...
Kashmir: First Land Settlement
Two years after the British "took over" the governance of Jammu and Kashmir and appointed Sir Oliver St John, the first British Resident on...
‘We Are Nearly Successful In Creating Gene-edited, Cloned Embryos of High Yeilding Pashmina Goats’
Since 1997 when the first cloned mammal was born in Europe, there have been many abortive bids to use the technology in India. It...
‘Rice Can Now Be Grown Without Stagnant Water In A Field’
A teacher, researcher and innovator, Dr Jameel A Khan’s expertise in developing drought-tolerant varieties has helped address climate change challenges. Currently serving as Programme...
Kashmir’s Women Scientists
Historically, the women in Kashmir have remained empowered enough to be part of every sphere of life. Though they have traditionally picked a set...
“We Created A Rice Variety Having Three Times More Yield”
Hinging hopes and envisioning, New Agricultural and Educational Policy to revolutionize the agricultural output and agro-education in Jammu and Kashmir, Prof Nazir A Ganai, Vice...
‘The Idea That A (urban) Planner Is A Genius With Grand Ideas Is Bogus’
Dr Samina Raja plans cities, towns, and regions to promote health and food equity. An award-winning professor and founder of a globally recognized Food...
