Srinagar, Sept. 14 -- By Saqib Shafi The weather had already forced four young Kashmiri climbers to abandon their first plan when they decided to try something harder. At 4,060 metres, beside Koheno... Read More
Srinagar, Sept. 14 -- By Malik Daniyal Drive through Pampore in October and you will see the karewas turning violet, thousands of saffron corms pushing purple flowers through soil that has grown this... Read More
Srinagar, Sept. 14 -- By Uzair Ashiq The road to Kashira runs into the mountains of Kupwara, toward a village surrounded by forests and high slopes where the Khanqah and Dargah of Maulana Muhammad Am... Read More
Srinagar, Sept. 14 -- By Sanjeev Sirohi The knock came in Kukroosa, a village in Handwara, in the Kupwara district of north Kashmir, where Shafat Maqbool Wani, known to neighbours as Shaf, had grown ... Read More
Srinagar, Sept. 11 -- By Syed Majid Gilani I went to a large trading firm in Srinagar one ordinary day for some official work. The business is run by a young businessman whose faith is different from... Read More
Srinagar, Sept. 11 -- By Farooq Ahmad Khan Sanction for prosecuting a public servant looks, on paper, like a stamp: present or absent, granted or refused. Courts have long treated it that way, as a ... Read More
Srinagar, Sept. 10 -- By Dr. S. Bashir Ahmad Veeri On September 7, 2013, Zubin Mehta stood before the Bavarian State Orchestra in Shalimar Bagh and led Beethoven, Haydn and Tchaikovsky against the Za... Read More
Srinagar, Sept. 9 -- By Zobiya Bhat The mountains outside Srinagar look permanent from almost any window in the valley. They have held the same horizon for generations, feeding rivers, setting weathe... Read More
Srinagar, Sept. 9 -- By Mohammad Ilyas Bhat A lady scientist, married to an administrative officer, once sat recording data from her vegetable trials while the sun conducted its own experiment on hum... Read More
Srinagar, Sept. 9 -- By Faizaan Bhat In a government primary school in rural Rajasthan, ask fifth-graders to subtract two three-digit numbers. The ASER 2022 report found that only 17.3 percent could ... Read More