SRINAGAR- a walker’s nightmare

Footpaths of Srinagar and pavements adjoining major roads are shrinking by the day making it among the most pedestrian unfriendly cities in the subcontinent

CRISIS By M Saleem Beg

Srinagar is home to about a million people. Add to this regular flow of visitors from other parts of the valley for their daily chores like shopping, going to a good doctor, visiting offices and relatives. All this makes it one of the most congested cities in the country. Mercifully the mess and chaos More
History Resurrected

Professor Rafiqi’s English Version of an Old Chronicle by Saiyid ’Ali Provides New Insights into the Glorious Past of Kashmir.

Professor Mohammad Aslam

Fustel de Coulanges says, “Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth.” History of Kashmir, an English version of an old Persian chronicle, Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Saiyid ’Ali, is reflective of Professor Abdul Qaiyum Rafiqi’s hard labour of piecing together More
My Journey of Defiance

“It’s true that we do not choose our birth and death; but we choose what is in between.”

Sally Bland

This is the story of Maha Naim Kalaji’s almost two decades battle against cancer, as she told it to Mohammed Salam Jomian. It is truly ground-breaking since her illness was first diagnosed at a time and place (Amman, 1993) where many refrained from saying the very word, cancer, and countless patients More
  • Kashmir

‘Three series system, single paper pattern unjust’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Nov 1: The students and parents have sharply reacted to the statement of Jammu Kashmir Plus Two Lecturers’ Forum in which it had supported the ‘defective’ three series system and single paper More


  • Srinagar City

CAMELS IN CITY FOR QURBANI

Ships of Desert are up for sale in this City in the Himalayas while the trend has picked up over the years

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Nov 1: Something popular about the Middle-East seems to be picking up in this City in the Himalayas at-least when it comes to preparations for the Eid-ul-Azha celebrations. Like the desert countries More



  • Jammu

Radio taxis to ply in Srinagar, Jammu cities from next year

Govt notifies draft scheme

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Nov 1: Residents of the State’s twin capital cities, Jammu and Srinagar, will soon be able to avail the services of luxury cabs at a very reasonable price. The State Government has decided to ply More


  • South Asia

Bahadur Mir of Baramulla passes away in Pakistan

NISAR AHMED THOKAR

Rawalpindi, Nov 1: Bahdur Mir of Qazi Hamam Baramulla passed away on Tuesday after a fighting years-long battle against cancer. Mir, 70, breathed his last this morning at his residence at Khana Dakh More


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