SHEIKH UMAR AHMAD Almost 3 months into it, we are yet to experience the worst as the cornavirus cases increase day after another. The main strategy that is actively being talked of is social distancing. The outbreak of coronavirus disease is stressful to people due to the curfew-like situation and people confined within their homes. […]
FAHEEM UL ISLAM In India almost every educational institution has been closed and the government has announced online education, urging students and teachers to remain in touch with each other through phones and internet. I want to ask this government where was your online educational policy when there were no schools open in Kashmir for […]
SYED ZAHID History, like a mirror, shows us the scars of the wounds that we have suffered in confining education within the shackles of caste, class, and gender. The foundation of modern society is education. With traditional ties of kinship, family, etc, becoming weaker, education is a binding force in so many ways. It has […]
SHAHZAD HUSSAIN To bring historically marginalised communities at par with other communities, the Constitution of India provides for affirmative action in the form of reservation in educational institutions and government jobs. Before 2019, reservation was provided mainly on the basis of social and educational backwardness. It was given to three types of categories: Scheduled Castes […]
SYED SUHAIL YAQOOB Can Covid-19 change the world order in China’s favour? The answer cannot be but yes. Three things are needed by a country to become dominant in global power equations: economy, military, and leadership. China has all three. It is already the second-largest economy and the largest trading nation in the world. Its […]
ABRAR A MATTOO The novel coronavirus is not a laughing matter, and if you come across someone who thinks that it is, pinch him awake, for he must he asleep. Only a month ago, on 19th of February, Italy had three positive cases of the virus and today they have more than forty-seven Considering that […]
DR AJAZ AHMAD SUHAFF We are continuously being tested by the unpredictable powers of nature. New threats to human health emerge often without warning in our environment. Infectious diseases have increased over the past century due to increased global travel, urbanisation, and exploitation of the natural environment. Initially there is uncertainty about the nature, spread, […]
MOHAMMAD IMRAN What a life we would have if only we were left to do as we pleased! But as we grow up, all of a sudden, a neither visible nor tangible unknown entity arises and begins to exert its invisible influence on us. It shapes our opinions and our behaviour. It discourages us from […]
NOOR UL SHAHBAZ A crime violates the laws of society and heinous crimes like rape and murder violate not only laws but the moral foundations of society. If such cases are not dealt proportionately to the gravity of the offence, then it may send a “wrong signal”. Capital punishment in rarest of rare cases serves […]
MANZOOR WANI On December 30, 2019, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar, released the biennial “India State of Forest Report (ISFR)” in New Delhi. The report said that forest cover in the country had increased by 3,976 square kilometres and Jammu and Kashmir was among the top five states/UTs where the […]