An elusive feeling called pain

LITERATURE

Pain has different meaning in different settings, writes Parveez Sajad Ganai

To be a spectator of one’s life, said Oscar Wilde, is to escape its troubles. What I understand from Oscar’s assertion is that, in order to minimize the sufferings one has to experience because of one’s adverse interaction with the outside world, one has to divide oneself into two. Allowing one part More
A visit to Turkmenistan

TRAVELOGUE

Here is an emerging republic in Central Asian region, Dr. Tabasum Firdous sums up her travel experiences

I was recently on my second trip to the Central Asian Republic of Turkmenistan; the first one came about in 2009. It was an academic exercise, something that academics and scholars usually undertake to the regions of their study and research. In my first and second visit, main focus, apart from More
A mere memory now

LIFE AND DEATH

First she was a company, now she is a memory. That is what death does by snatching our dear ones from us, Moazum Muhammad narrates

Today is the death anniversary of my grandmother. It has been one year since she left. This day that year I had the last glimpse of her pale face draped in shroud under bright sun of the noon. Neither the day nor her memory fades away ever since she left. Her memory continues to haunt me. Somewhere More
  • Kashmir

New districts still without district hospitals

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Mar 21: What could be seen as a serious health concern, three newly carved districts in the Valley are without district hospitals for the past five years.Since the creation of eight districts More


  • Srinagar City

Stray dogs maul newspaper hawker, 2 kids

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 21: With no letup in stray dog attacks in the summer capital, a newspaper hawker was mauled by the canines in Hawal area of Shahr-e-Khaas Monday morning. The locals said Hilal Ahmed More



  • Jammu

Tarigami decry NATO’s intervention in Libya

Jammu: The CPI (M) has strongly condemned NATO’s intervention in Libya.  “The logic given of protecting the Libyan people by utilizing the United Nation’s Security Council resolution is a gross violation More


  • News in Brief

36 hurt in Kulgam mishap

Srinagar, Mar 21: At least 36 persons were wounded in a mishap at Bachroo in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Monday Reports said that a bus bearing number JK01C-0416 fell into gorge after the driver More


  • Business

Guv for large scale seed replacement to increase farm productivity

20th Meet Of Council Of SKUAST Kashmir Held

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 21: Governor, N N Vohra, today stressed the need for the implementation of a time-bound Action Plan for the progressive growth of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, fisheries, and allied sectors More


  • News

‘Yemen Prez Saleh's regime near falling’

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Dubai, Mar 21: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year-old iron fisted rule appeared to be tottering today after three army generals, including his longtime confidant, defected, asking him to step More


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