WINTER How PREPARED are we?

COLD WAR By Kashif Bilal

It is an Arabic proverb that, “He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”  But most Kashmiris live in a state of despair and are suffering from different ailments caused by socio-political tensions and worries born out of past few decades. Another cause in my mind, which More
Peace Positive and Negative

CALL IT A PHASE OF TRANQUILITY OR ABSENCE OF COMMOTION BUT PEACE IS NOT MERELY ABSENCE OF VIOLENT CONFLICT

DISCUSSION By Adil Bashir

They make a desolation and call it peace. — Agha Shahid Ali‘Peace is absence of violent conflict’—is a negative concept of peace. Peace is not merely the absence of war or violent conflict rather it is something more than absence of war. Peace is a positive thing. Actually the use of violence More
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LIFE By Melissa Bell

Nobody likes change, but I’d argue I like it least of all. When my mother forced me to replace the carpet in my childhood bedroom that doubled as my sibling’s playroom, after weeks of tantrums, she made a deal: I could chose my favorite stain on the floor and keep that square of carpet. (I opted for More
  • Kashmir

Mehrajudin’s family contests police version

'Instead of help, bullets were pumped into his chest'

SUHAIL AJMAL/G M BHAT

Shahgund (Bandipore), Jan 9: On Saturday (January 7) Hajira completed her household chores early as her son, Mehrajudin Hajam, had promised her that he would take her to SK Institute of Medical Sciences More


  • Srinagar City

Building snowman is City's favorite pastime

'Encourage kids to play with nature'

SYED IMRAN ALI HAMDANI

Srinagar, Jan 9: For Danish Me'raj, 6, building snowman has been a longtime desire. "Last year papa and mummy did not allow me to go out in snow… This time it took me three hours to build this one," says More



  • Jammu

2000 stranded passengers face hardships in Jammu

Upset over lack of information on highway condition

Jammu, Jan 9: More than 2,000 Kashmir-bound passengers were stranded in Jammu because of the closure of the Jammu-Srinagar highway since the past three days after heavy snowfall and rain lashed the state More


  • South Asia

Bodies of 10 Pak soldiers recovered

Islamabad: The bodies of 10 Pakistani soldiers, reported missing after a clash with militants last month, were found in the country's restive northwestern tribal belt today, the second such incident in More


  • World

Global warming disrupts natural patterns of glaciations

Washington, Jan 9: Unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases are disrupting normal patterns of glaciation, setting back the process of the earth's cooling as it did in its prehistoric past. That may More


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