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Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): The Best Role Model

MALIK AMIR Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the best role model for all humankind. Among his outstanding virtues and characteristics, he was an extraordinary husband, a...

The Scourge of Poverty is Both a Perpetual and an Emerging Global Challenge

KHALID HUSSAIN MIR Poverty can be defined as the general scarcity or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or...

The Untold Story about Diamonds

Mudasir Sheikh Most of us perceive diamonds as valuable gems found on earth. Usually, something is valuable because of its scarcity and usefulness. Diamonds are...

Understanding Cultural Relativism

SYED MOHAMMAD Manipulating cultural differences to divide and exploit people remains unfortunately widespread in our world today. Cultural difference reflects attempts to make sense of...

My School, My Dreamland!

MIR UMAR There was a time in my childhood, when I used to make pseudo lies about my sickness so as to convince parents that...

Reclaiming our Eutrophicated Water Bodies: Causes, Effects and Cure

Nitrogen (N) is necessary for all life as the primary constituent of nucleotides and proteins. However, more than 99% of N on earth is...

Breast Feeding is the Best Feeding

AEJAZ IQBAL From the moment, a baby opens its eyes to this world, its body must adapt to a new life. Every factor to facilitate...

What needs to be Done about High Drop Out Rates in Jammu and Kashmir?

ALTAF HUSSAIN HAJI Education is the foundation of a society. One can appositely say, a strong society can be built by ensuring that every member...

Education Portends Ruin

By Sheikh Maqbool Today, due to commercialisation and the quest for profit making , education is not only becoming costly but more insidious damage is...

Modern Trends in Seerah Writing

Ishfaq Nissar Padder We believe that the role model for the whole humanity is Prophet Muhammad (SAW). The Prophet, being our ‘Role Model’ and the...

The Underappreciated Beauty and Glory of Mathematics

ISHFAQ AHMAD CHOPAN In elementary terms, we regard mathematics as the study of numbers, quantities, structures, spaces, and variations which involves use of certain patterns...

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...

Food Deficit Condition in J&K Can be Attributed to Poor Policy and Faulty Research

AQIB NAZIR Isn’t it ironic that our agrarian economic region is a food deficit one with about 80% of its population engaged in agriculture and...

On the Importance of Branding in Saffron Marketing in Kashmir Valley

BY BINISH QADRI The concept of sustainable development originated from Brundtland Report of 1987 according to which development satisfying the requirements of the present generation...

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...

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