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Knowledge

A vast sphere of activity in all societies, this section envisages almost everything from school education to higher education with a separate section dedicated to sciences. This grouping of writings includes scholarships, counselling, and available career options for the new generation.

JKLF’s Israel Blitzkrieg! 

The dramatic abduction and release of an Israeli tourist in early nineties by the ‘powerful’ Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on ‘humanitarian grounds’...

Ghulam Mohammad Mir

Ghulam Mohammad Mir (September 21, 1949 - December 16, 1993) A man, who jumped into politics, contested an election unsuccessfully and was eventually killed as a...

AI-Enabled Searches

Artificial intelligence is now hugely in use in search engines. Google and Microsoft are outwitting each other in the use of AI to enhance...

Back To Basics

Focus is shifting back to a career  in basic sciences 

Dream Come True

Afaq Giri became first person to crack IAS exams from Banihal. Riyaz Ul Khaliq and Saima Rashid report the story behind his success When asked...

No place for the native

In times when gene pool preservation is a priority all over the world, the indigenous livestock in Kashmir has disappeared, Ikhlaq Qadri reports. Kashmir has...

Sky Dreams in The Valley

J&K is getting its first aviation college, which offers courses ranging from commercial pilot license to aircraft maintenance engineering and cabin crew training. Mehmooda...
Barieq Manzoor - Ignou Topper (KL Image by Bilal Bahadur)

‘I Want To Crack Civil Services Now’

Barieq Manzoor, a Downtown girl topped IGNOU’s BCom examination. It was beyond her expectations. In an interview with Saif Ullah Bashir, she says her...

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...

Who Is Killing Them?

One of the foremost features of Kashmir’s strife is that tens of thousands of people, men, women and youth, started moving out of their...

Those Cholera Carnage’s

Unlike many other epidemics, the Cholera has been Kashmir’s resident killer for most of the nineteenth century when the bacteria would come with the...

1947: The Last Letter

At the peak of 1947 Jammu Massacre, a 17-year old bride in Bhaderwah was waiting for her professor husband with their midnight summer’s child...

Battleground Amira Kadal

Being central to Kashmir and to the governance structure, Amira Kadal was always in limelight. That is perhaps why all the anti-NC forces joined...

Unlearning Mistakes

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1947: Kashmiris In Amritsar

For most of the history especially after Sikhs replaced Afghans in Srinagar, most of the migrants from Kashmir were making Amritsar their home. These...