Roped wind, iron fist and the spice queen

Exploring the majesty of a great civilization across time and space

MINDSCAPE BY S.SARWAR

  Moving ahead at leisurely pace along the lake, my flight across time and space least effected, I was telling you about the great patriarch, prophet Ibraheem( a.s)  and the great cradle of Mesopotamian civilization, when constraint of space made me pause the last write-up in this column More
Blame it on Your Genes or Environment

THE DIABETESE MONTH

Once a diabetic, always a diabetic,writes Dr. Shariq Masoodi

Last month, while I was buying provisions, I suddenly realized that the storeowner’s face looked familiar. Soon I recollected that, many months back, I had seen him in my hospital in an agitated state. He had been found to have high sugar (glucose) levels in his blood but he was not ready to accept More
My name is Polythene

FIRST PERSON

...... and I am a silent killer, narrates Nazima Wani

Hey Guys, what’s up! Hi I’m Polythene! No need for me to introduce myself. I’m so popular around the world that every consumer knows me. I’m the most loved packaging material available to you and hence an integral part of your lives.  ( And your enemy too!) Well to start with I should More
  • Kashmir

Sheikh Hamid, Aali Kadal martrys remembered

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 19: The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (R) have paid rich tributes to Shaheed-e-Hurriyat, Sheikh Abdul Hamid and other martyrs of Aali Kadal on their 18th More


  • Srinagar City

Released from handcuffs to tie nuptial knot

Unlike scores of others, luck favored him to be a ‘free man’ who celebrated Eid-Ul-Azha with his family

M HYDERI

Behind every successful man is a woman. This maxim seems to have inspired police to release a stone pelting accused whose detention was coming in way of his proposed marriage. Arif (name changed), More



  • Business

'Make JK a clean currency state'

JK Bank asks people not to accept soiled/broken notes from its branches

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 19: Under its ‘clean currency, clean commerce’ initiative aimed to make J&K a clean currency state, the J&K Bank has exhorted  general public not to accept soiled or unusable More


  • News

JK shows improvement in governance: Survey

Adjudged Best State In Health, MGNREGA

New Delhi, Nov 19: A survey conducted by the India Today has indicated that the Jammu and Kashmir State has shown remarkable improvement in the governance during last two years. As against rank 16 in 2008 More


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