Medicos celebrate 30 years of Khuroo’s ‘E’ Virus Discovery

…an evening to remember

…Governor Vohra touches grey areas in development & health planning,writes Dr.Javid Iqbal

On an evening of high drama in hotel Broadway, a moving audio-visual display had the medical community celebrate 30 years of Prof. Khuroo’s ‘E’ virus discovery. It was a proud movement, a moment that indeed called for celebration, as one amongst the galaxy of medicos in the valley had touched the More
The Spirit of Fasting

Third Pillar of Islam

The letter is to abstain from food and drink, the spirit is to seek salvation,writes Dr Farooq Ahmad Peer

Fasting or Saum is the third pillar of the five basic principles of Islam. It literally means to abstain from something and give it up. As a term of the Shari’ah, Saum implies abstaining from eating, drinking, gratifying sexual desire, evil speech, evil hearing, evil thoughts and evil deeds, etc., More
Poetic perceptions

LITERATURE

These stories, where the expatriate experience is foregrounded, resonate with the paradoxes inherent in all relationships, says Padmini Devarajan

Nothing could be more pertinent to the present times than the expatriate experience that once again forms the basic theme of The Unknown Errors of Our Lives, the latest creative venture of Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni. Woven in exquisite colours and designs, these short stories evoke a sense of poetry More
  • Kashmir

Water to be metered in Civil Lines

‘Consumer can use 40 ltrs daily’

MOAZUM MUHAMMAD

Srinagar, Aug 2: The Government is all set to install meters in Civil Lines area of the City to check the misuse of potable water.   Chief Engineer Public Health Engineering (PHE) G R Zargar More


  • Srinagar City

Chinar Bagh houseboat business in stinky soup

Govt inaugurates park, forgets canal cleaning

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, Aug 2: Want to know how concerned the government is to revive tourism industry in the City, which witnesses almost no business for three consecutive summers? Sample This: Rs three crore were More



  • Jammu

'BJP only secular party in country'

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jammu, Aug 2: Claiming that BJP is the only party having "secular" credentials, Jammu and Kashmir unit of the saffron party today said that all those parties which claim to be secular are "divisive" and More


  • South Asia

Suicide bomber kills 4 in Afghanistan

AGENCIES

Kabul, Aug 2: A suicide bomber blew up his car outside a compound frequented by foreigners just after dawn Tuesday, killing four guards, as two other militants stormed the building in Kunduz city and engaged More


  • World

World ire mounts toward Syria amid bloody crackdown

AGENCIES

Damascus, Aug 2: Pressure at the United Nations and world capitals mounted on Tuesday on Syria's government as a fierce security crackdown on peaceful protests overnight left dozens of deaths, injuries More


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