The Karakul Cap

Wearing Karakul Cap seems to be symbolic in Kashmir for politicians especially of the mainstream genre!

M.Ashraf

The other day it was quite amusing to see the Chief Minister addressing the passing out parade of the police wearing a Karakul Cap. The wearing of these caps of different hues, shapes, and sizes seems quite a fad among the Kashmiri politicians especially those belonging to the mainstream parties. More

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Hurry Up, Slow Down, It’s New Year

Dr Sanjay Parva

Life, like New Year, is an ethereal form of renewal. But only if we give it time to do so.After three years of grappling with cancer, Linda Anderson was asked to slow down a little; her willingness for or against it notwithstanding. Linda was a fast paced worker More

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Modern Means, Old Ends

IICT Srinagar in Pursuit of Excellence in Carpet Industry in J&K

Tariq A Rather

IICT has introduced a modern technique which is a locally developed Carpet Design Software, in the field of carpet designing wherein carpet designs are automatically converted into Talim Scripts (a unique Coded Pattern). The designs herein created and developed are preserved for ever. This innovation More

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Crab Mentality?

Traders’ bodies should work as a cohesive force to pull LoC trade out of shambles

Sajjad Bazaz

For quite some time now cross - LoC trade is again in focus. After four years since it began, it came on the forefront that the intent behind the initiative was more political in nature than being a move to explore economic prosperity in the two parts of J&K. As on date, we haven’t seen anything More

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