26.3 C
Srinagar
Thursday, June 18, 2026

CATEGORY

OPINION

Answers to Common Questions about Covid-19

Dr Shahnawaz Mushtaq The number of Covid-19 cases in Kashmir has risen with each passing day. Though the health department is on alert, yet there...

Without caring for their life, police perform their thankless duty

Mohammad Shoaib Police have to play a multifarious role in society. Police is the first institution that people approach in case of any crime or...

Do Muslims Need to be Critical of Themselves

Arif Aslam I wake up for the early morning prayer, step out towards the place of congregation, and back in my mind is the motive...

Lessons from the History of Nursing Profession

Banday Abid The nurse has the privilege to open the eyes of a newborn, and to gently close the eyes of the dying –witness to...

A Sudden Domicile

Azad Hussain In the middle of widespread panic over the coronavirus, the central government has come up with a new domicile law for Jammu and...

New Domicile Law and its Implications

Hamid Rather At a time when the country is struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Union Home Ministry has issued a new domicile law, repealing...

Govt of India must take back the new domicile law

Muzamil Rashid Without taking the democratic voice of Jammu and Kashmir on board, laws are abrogated, made and enforced forcefully by some way or the...

More assault on wounded economy of Kashmir

Safura Amin No one ever thought that in 2020 something like this could happen, but it did and I see Kashmiri people giving tips to...

History of Quarantine & Sanitisation Measures in Kashmir

Owais Ismaeil The centuries-old strategy of quarantine is today the fundamental means of responding to outbreak of infectious diseases. The modern state of J&K came...

Peace won’t come to Afghanistan just by a peace deal

Javeed Bin Nabi The US invasion of Afghanistan started soon after the deadly attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. It was the...

Nature is cleansing itself with coronavirus lockdown

Asiya Qadir Human life in the whole globe has come to a standstill. Industrial activities have ground to a halt, traffic is off the roads,...

Are We Uneducated Literates or Literate Hypocrites?

Suraya Haidar In the time of Covid-19, there is a dire need of differentiating between education and literacy. A well-established misconception in our society is...

Kashmiris are not immune to coronavirus

Bilal Ahmad Dar We the people of Kashmir do not care a fig (just as we do not care in most matters) about this coronavirus....

Don’t be a Covidiot

Dr Mudasir Ahmad Gori There is news and then there is nuisance. While the whole world is engaged in tackling this deadly coronavirus, not only...

Ill-prepared lockdown has created more problems than it has solved

Tazeem Akhter When Covid-19 cases began to get reported and the numbers began to shoot up around the world, the supposedly best bet was to...

This is no time to be frivolous and rebellious

Farheena Muzaffar & Samreena Yaqoob Unbeknownst to all, a virus has grown so big that the entire globe is in its grasp. It was in...

VERMICOMPOST: THE BLACK DIAMOND

UMAR MAJEED KHAN Aristotle said, “Worms are the intestines of the earth”, and Charles Darwin wrote a book on worms in which he declared that...

Tourism and Durga festival in Doda

Mool Raj I would like to draw attention to some of the tourist attractions in district Doda. The Chenab Valley in Doda district has numerious...

The birds and me

I never appreciated the freedom of breath that I had Until my lungs choked. I am home quarantined None but two things happen now: the day...

The contagion is also in the mind

DR ABRAR-UL HAQ WANI & DR MUZAFFAR SHAHEEN Steven Soderbergh’s movie ‘Contagion’ is now playing out in real. COVID-19 took just two months to become...

IBN BATTUTA, THE GLOBE-TROTTER

JAHANGEER AHMAD KUMAR In the centuries between 1400 and 1800, visitors to India wrote a number of travelogues in Persian. At the same time, Indian...

Words acquire meanings, shed feelings

MUDASIR KHAN There was a time when the very word used to send a chill down the spine. But the world has progressed and words...

Conquest of the World by A Mighty Pathogen

TAWSEEF AHMAD KHAN Nations are in a state of chaos. Even after putting all their resources to use and channelising all their energies, they have...

There is a war at the border in Poonch and nobody is bothered

Garima Sharma From the conception of nation-building processes, borderlands have been one of the most beleaguered spaces. When borders are formed, they not only demarcate...

Coronavirus has revealed the nature of power

DAVID RUNCIMAN We keep hearing that this is a war. Is it really? What helps to give the current crisis its wartime feel is the...

Acquaint Yourself With Scientific Facts and Do Not Go By Popular Opinion

G.N BHAT & DR NAWAB JAN DAR The novel coronavirus is named as SARS-CoV-2. SARS-Cov was first reported in Asia in February 2003, though cases...

Beware of the lure of likes and comments

SAIQA JAB If technology has brought us cl oser, how come there are even more lonely people in the world around us now? Why do...

‘Superpowers’ quake before the power of a virus

ARIF AHMAD MIR Design comes from a designer, laws come from a law giver, life comes from a life giver, creation comes from a creator....

Fight Not Just Coronavirus But Also Irrationality and Fatalism

ZAHOOR AHMAD SHAH In Jammu and Kashmir, particularly in the valley, there is no dearth of sermonisers and preachers stressing on having faith in God....

Israeli Weapons Find New Market In India, Europe, Asia

Thanks to the US, Russian, French, Israeli and other weapons manufacturers, the Middle East region is the dumping ground for military hardware. Data released...

Latest news