Personality

Sports icons around the world do land up in crisis for one or the other reason. In icon-devoid Kashmir, however, they were embarrassing when...

Dr Muneeb Faiq, 34, a highly acclaimed clinical researcher from Kashmir, working on glaucoma, neuro-degeneration and diabetes at All India Institute of Medical Sciences,...

Muhammad Abbas Khan, a soldier serving the Indian Army became restive when his mother’s dead body was not reaching home for burial. When officials...

Masarat Alam Bhat, the pioneer of 2010 people’s uprising, was only 19-year-old when he first went to jail in 1990. Since then Masarat, known...

After state’s finance minister Dr Haseeb Drabu presented the budget for 2017-18 in Legislative Assembly with focus on micro-credit and operational efficiency, he probably...

  Once PDP’s ‘firebrand’ leader and former MP Tariq Hamid Karra is likely to join Congress as its president while its present president will contest...

Greater Kashmir editor and owner Fayaz Ahmad Kaloo was elected president of the Kashmir Editors Guild, last week, for a year long term. With...

Politicians are known for displaying the dual traits of eccentricity and euphemism. Perhaps the blend of both was at show when Ms Mehbooba Mufti’s...

Managing ruckus resounding in the house can get on your nerves — ask Mohammad Akbar Lone! But the ongoing state assembly session is witnessing...

The ex-associate of Maqbool Butt known for sporting a signature whisker ceased to be at 73. Ghulam Muhammad Khan, who was the father of...

Syed Ali Geelani If you were to read the Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi's biography, you will conclude that he lived his life as a rebel....

Kashmir lost its celebrated storyteller, the daastango Mohammad Ismail Mir, recently. The deceased was instrumental in keeping the flame of ‘daastangoi’ alive in the state...

Mohammad Yasin Malik Ever since the summer durbar resumed operations in Srinagar, a series of controversial issues triggered a sense of unrest across valley. Issues...

Sometimes it takes just five convincing ideas to grab the coveted post. This is how Prof Mushtaq Sidique became the third Vice Chancellor of...

The games they play in Kashmir often freak out the talented lots. Perhaps it was the same toast of the game that cost chance...