Life Story

A young undergraduate passionate about weather forecasting has emerged as the new weatherman in virtual Kashmir, reports Minhaj Masoodi If the weather is gloomy or...

He drove 3 kms with 300 pellets in his arm to reach the hospital. Once his wounds healed nightmares followed. Heena Muzzafar tells this...

Umar Khurshid tells the story of a specially abled man, who after guarding a hospital for a decade is now face to face with...

A Jammu jewellers’ family owns some of the rarest pieces of Islamic calligraphy and it includes two specimens of the Quran which require a...

As the virus jammed Wuhan in China and triggered a global appetite for personal protection equipment (PPE), a young innovator in Srinagar decided to...

At 73, Peerzaada Hamidullah Qadri, devotes himself to running a charitable trust. Aliya Bashir reports. After a long teaching career Peerzaada Hamidullah Qadri retired...

Among his siblings he was the one his parents could least rely on, because of his blindness, but Wali Mohammad not only became the...

For forty years Bashir Ahmad Bashir has been drawing cartoons, which many say is the soul of the Srinagar Times. The cartoons have many...

The boy whose birth haunted both medicos and his family has come a long way in life by bringing laurels home with his unconventional...

For almost five decades a couple has been rowing a boat to keep two Kashmir villages, lacking a bridge, stay connected. They worked on...

In Kashmir where marriage ceremonies have become extravagant and finding matches increasingly worrisome, Humsafar has made the process simple and easier. Haroon Mirani meets...

A boy lost his eyesight to a hereditary disease and was restricted to his home. After failed attempts to take his own life, a...

Ghulam  Hassan Ganai  lost both his arms to an electric shock in his  childhood. Since then he has armed himself with determination to fight...