For the last 15 years, a widow living in Sultan Diki Tehsil Urii, a border village in north Kashmir, has been forced to live with her young daughter and son in the scorching sun and bitter cold in a two-room tin shed. Interestingly, this shed was built for the widow by the Catholic Social Service […]
Pratham’s initiative of sharing information on Covid and its vaccine Every year schools in Kashmir are closed for months together because of different reasons. To cope with the academic loss and to improve the learning abilities of students, the School Education Department and other organisations, among them Pratham Education Foundation, are trying their best. In […]
Edmodo is an educational tool to connect teachers and students. It is assimilated into a social network. With the help of this tool teachers can achieve excellence in academics through creation of online educational consortiums and collaborative groups. It keeps regular provision for educational materials. Furthermore, it measures the efficiency and performance of a student, […]
The killing of a Muslim family on June 6 in Ontario, Canada, again presented an opportunity for Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, to brand himself as a voice of reason and communal harmony. However, Trudeau’s amiable and reassuring language is designed to veil a sinister reality which has, for many years, hidden the true face […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The world economy has been rendered crippled due to unprecedented recession within two years of the outbreak of Covid-19. The measures to slow down the soaring infection rates by governments and public health experts, like restrictions on […]
The rapid expansion of Islam took place between the time of Muhammad’s (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) return to Mecca from his exile in Madina in 630 AD and the Muslim conquest of lands extending from Spain to the borders of China by 715 AD. Not long afterwards, Muslims began the acquisition of foreign learning and by […]
Different people have different definitions for mathematics as per their respective viewpoints. To me, mathematics is an art. The art of doing things differently, the art of thinking about the universe and modelling it, the art of discovering logical structures beyond the structure of the universe. There’s mathematics behind various forms of art and there’s […]
Whenever our body encounters a virus or any other infection, the best weapon to fight it off is through our immune system. Immunity is the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitised white blood cells. People who have weakened immune systems are at […]
We are witnessing increasing activities of off-roading in Kashmir forests, which will have serious ill effects on forest ecosystems and both flora and fauna. It will result in deterioration of soil, damage to vegetation, habitat degradation, and that will ultimately pose a serious threat to the wildlife of the region. Deterioration of soil Off-roading in […]
As extreme weather continues to force the earth into more drought, floods, hurricanes, a time will come when the poorest people would be forced to choose between migration and starvation. This imminent scenario has been termed as ‘climate apartheid’. The term was in the limelight after the UN Human Rights Council published a report that […]