The Dangers and Perils of using Black Henna

Dr.Tasadoq Hussain Jaweed & Zaffar Ayub Henna has been used to decorate women’s bodies during marriage ceremonies and other social celebrations since the Bronze Age. In the Indian subcontinent, henna is used for skin decoration and hair dying during social celebrations, and during marriage ceremonies people celebrate by adorning the bride, and the groom, with […]

Parenting a Child

Parenting a Child

MIR UMAR Life is full of challenges. Be it positive ones or negative setbacks, one has to remain patient enough to face these changes. In the voyage of life, a person encounters with lot of different challenges like winds of uncertainty strike against one’s boat and the water tries to beat the buoyancy of life. […]

Corruption is a Disease: That Must be Eradicated From Within

Corruption is a Disease: That Must be Eradicated From Within

TAWFEEQ IRSHAD MIR With glued memories of my infantile period, hardly I could retrieve the surroundings and the events happening around, Brought up in a very small village “Goripora” in the Sopore town of Kashmir, a village with meticulous presence, conscious, a mixture of intellect and a think tank of its own, whenever I revert […]

A Neglected Cultural and Natural Asset: The Dying Pangs of the Chinar

A Neglected Cultural and Natural Asset: The Dying Pangs of the Chinar

AYAZ NABI MALIK & MOHD ASIF SHAH Nowadays everywhere around, several debates and discussions are held regarding the importance of popular culture and consequences of environmental pollution. In these discussions and debates, the participants deliver sonorous and sumptuous speeches regarding the sustenance and maintenance of their culture and environment, which ultimately prove to be a […]

Kashmiri Saffron is Dying!

Kashmiri Saffron is Dying!

JAVID AHMAD WANI Kashmir has a monopoly in saffron production in India. It is one of the most important export product and most important foreign exchange earner among the spices grown entirely in Jammu and Kashmir. Here, the crop is mainly grown in Pampore and its adjacent areas, Khrew, Ladhoo , Chandhara, Samboora and Wuyan. […]

Hypertension: A Silent Killer

Hypertension: A Silent Killer

BY WAZIRA FIRDOUS ANSARI Hypertension is also known as high blood pressure. It develops when there are difficulties in getting the blood through your body. It may occur due to the narrowing of your arteries or some kind of blockage. If the problem stays, the heart has to work twice as hard to pump your […]

Prophet Muhammad (SAW): Mercy to the worlds

Prophet Muhammad (SAW): Mercy to the worlds

Q A MOINI The Holy Quran has used a number of sublime terms to describe the Blessed Prophet (PBUH). On this day associated with his birth, it would be useful to ponder over some of these metaphysical terms used by the Almighty in His Book about His Prophet to gain a better understanding of the […]

Do Not Over Think!

Do Not Over Think!

SYED MAAFID A human being is gifted with the power of thinking that keeps him or her involved in different activities. Thinking is a process of considering or reasoning. The pithy quote ‘Health is not just about what you are eating, it is all about what you are thinking and saying’ captures the essence of […]

Our Roads need care and innovation

Our Roads need care and innovation

NADEEM QAYOOM Roads are indeed lifelines of economy of a nation. We reach our destination via roads. Goods and other essentials are transported via them. Roads have been in the history since wheels were discovered. With advancement, these have been improved a lot and the journeys made comfortable much. Despite other alternatives being available, roads […]

Climate change and skin cancer

Climate change and skin cancer

SHEIKH UMAR AHMAD Globally, Climate change has accelerated rapidly in the past half century and while international focus has concentrated on the environmental and economic consequences, the effects on human diseases such as skin cancer have been relatively under-represented. The connection between ultraviolet (UV) exposure and the development of malignant skin diseases has long been […]