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Greed is Destroying Kashmir’s Wetlands. It Should Alarm Us All

SHEIKH UMAR AHMAD Kashmir is gifted with immense natural resources that give it a paradise personification on earth. Being geographically small and fragile ecosystem, it...

Technology and Teaching can be Resolved?

JAVEID HASSAN MALIK It is very hard to define a good teacher but going as per conventional definitions, “a good teacher is someone who inspires...

Integrating Healthcare with Technology is both the Need and the Demand of the Hour

BY NIGAM GUPTA Salutations to all those who are working day and night for improving the most dignified profession in good conscience by making use...

To Be Or Not To Be?

BASHARAT HASSAN The Jammu and Kashmir Higher Education De¬partment’s order to permit college faculties to guide research scholars deserves much debate and discussion before a...

Power of Face-to-Face Communication in the Modern World

BY BINISH QADRI When only two persons or a small group of people are involved in informal conversation or chatting when they come face to...

Late Marriages: A Serious Social Issue

AAQIB ASHRAF NENGROO Marriage, a legally and socially sanctioned union between a man and a woman is regulated by multiple laws legislated by different religious...

The Post- modernization Thought in the Agnostic West and the Turn to Islam

DR. MUZAFFAR SHAHEEN Conscience is thus explained as the voice of God in the soul- (Peter Kreeft) Islamic thought despite having been exported to the West...

The Joy of Reading Books

MUBASHIR IQBAL KITABA The joy of reading books can’t be expressed in words. It is something which we can understand only by real experience. There...

Redefine Leadership in Higher Education Institutions

DR. ARSHED IQBAL DAR Truth talking and beautiful doing are the fruitful traits of a triumphant administrator. The speaker of living speech takes provision from...

On the Causal Bond between Infrastructure Investment and Development Effects

BY BINISH QADRI Econometric models(Walters, 1968)allow us to estimate the long-run relationship between variables. The elementary awareness and understanding of Vector Auto regression(VAR) causality testing...

How to Beat Plastic Pollution

Dr Khursheed Ahmad Wani Every plastic waste that is in my backyard is due to my own fault, whether I will quench my thirst, fill...

Notes on Solitude

Muhammed Hussain Sufi Solitude is an essence to sculpt the symmetric shape out of a regular stone you are, by removing the deformities, edges and...

On Education, Competition and Teachers

Malik Nazir Ahmad As teachers we know about these definitions but perhaps we have forgotten the great role ordained to us. We are not free...

Greed is Destroying Kashmir’s Wetlands. It Should Alarm Us All

SHEIKH UMAR AHMAD Kashmir is gifted with immense natural resources that give it a paradise personification on earth. Being geographically small and fragile ecosystem, it...

Wake Up Before It is Too Late: Notes on the Importance of Kashmir’s Deteriorating Soil Health

Dr. Tasneem Mubarak The ever expanding population and changing life styles are creating enormous demand for food, fodder, feed, fiber and fuel. To keep pace...

On the Nature and Cause(s) of the Evil of Rape

AZHAR AALAM MIR Rape isn’t a new crime; it has been there since ages but was considered as a minor crime. It was in 20th...

Why Abuse Women when the Almighty Has Given Then Rights?

Mir Abas Most of the women in certain environments spend all their time in service of men especially their husbands ― making them breads, meal,...

Let’s Become Environmental Protectionists!

Dr. Shahid Amin Trali It’s very alarming to find the unending disturbances to our environment. Man’s foul play with the nature is not going well...

Towards a Happy and a Fulfilling Childhood

Naveed Shafi Khaja In our society children are considered as an inseparable part of individual and societal existence. A married couple without a child feels...

‘Oceans’ Inside Earth

BY IAN SIMPLE A small, battered diamond found in the gravel strewn along a shallow riverbed in Brazil has provided evidence of a vast “wet...

Ukraine: Caught Between Rival ‘Humanitarianisms’

BY KENAN MALIK When is an invasion not an invasion? When is sovereignty not sovereignty? When is an unelected regime more legitimate than an elected...

Realizing ‘Humanity’ Via Commodity

BY DR AKMAL HUSSAIN Over the last three centuries following the Industrial Revolution, the stress on the earth’s ecosystem has been building up and may...

Al-Aqsa vs. Israel: The Lurking Danger Beneath

By Ramzy Baroud Something sinister is brewing around and below al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and it has the hallmark of a familiar Israeli...

For Whom India Splits States

BY AJAY GUDAVARTHY Smaller States have been the new political mode of addressing basic issues that were otherwise left unresolved. However, fighting for a new...

Inviting Taliban to Cricket, Tea and Scones

  BY TALAT MASOOD Pakistan’s current leadership is, perhaps, unaware that when it shows camaraderie and weakness towards dealing with militants, it is sleepwalking the country...

We and the Critics

BY PAULO COELHO I am convinced that most of you also feel hurt when someone criticizes your work. Don’t take critics too seriously. They don’t...

Crimea Can’t Be Done in 21st Century: Can Iraq?

BY WILLIAM BLUM When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try...

A Welcome Judgment

BY ADVOCATE ZAHID ALI The guidelines recently provided by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court for applying Muslim Personal Law are proper, just and leading...

Economics Retold in Parable

BY COLIN COOK The Story of Munnies and Wallies The population is divided in two: five per cent are Munnies, the other 95 per cent Wallies. ...

Anti-Terror Strategies in Muslim World

BY MUHAMMAD AMIR RANA A transnational approach, flexible operational frameworks and interagency collaboration between traditional law enforcement agencies and other government institutions are considered the...

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