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Board examinations are a vital milestone in a student’s life. While gearing up for such exams, being able to utilise time effectively holds the...

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Mukhtar Ahmad Qureshi

The evolving marketplace and services

In a perfect world, the government would supervise and facilitate. It would create a level playing field. For everyone. The morally perfect human...

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Dr. Moonis Tabib

Real Reasons for the Dollar’s Dominance

President Donald Trump’s electoral victory last November was decisive and sweeping. He now has majority control over both legislative houses i.e.,...

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Ajit Ranade

NEP Fit Schools

NEP is represents paradigm shift in the country’s education policy, aimed at bringing about changes in the teaching and learning process. NEP Fit...

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Dr Mehnaz Rehman

Modi’s US visit

There was a  lot of jubilation in  the country over  Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the US, first in  Trump 2.0,  as many in India...

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Arun Joshi

Reforming the system

The exams for the secondary and senior secondary classes have begun. For the concerned government departments it is a grand exercise that involves...

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Gk Editorial Desk

Online Gambling: A New Peril

The rise of online gambling is an another feather in the cap of devil playing successfully every possible evil in the fabric of digital economies....

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Mohammad Jalal-Ud-Din

Baramulla’s Growing Parking Woes

Baramulla, one of the most prominent towns in Jammu and Kashmir, has witnessed rapid urbanisation and a significant increase in vehicular...

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Sheikh Nazir

CUK: Path to excellence

The advent of online education has posed major existential challenges to conventional universities reliant on face-to-face transactions. The...

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Dr. Mohammad Sayid Bhat

Legislative Assembly’s rule making process

A  process is underway to frame rules and procedure for conducting legislative business of the Legislative Assembly  (LA for short ): for which a...

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Greater Kashmir

B L Saraf

The flagrant gender gap in saffron farming

In land ownership, a gender gap is visible thereby mechanism of saffron farming getting more and more patriarchal. Empirical research studies...

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Binish Qadri

A wild fight for survival!

With a spike in incidents of human-wildlife conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, there is a need to ascertain reasons for foraying of wild animals into...

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Greater Kashmir

Arif Shafi Wani

Modi Trump summit

As prime minister Narendra Modi met the US president Donald Trump after the latter assumed the office for the second term, they picked up where...

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Gk Editorial Desk

Ghost Kitchens to Gastronomy

The ‘authentic’ Punjabi thali you ordered? It’s made in a Mumbai cloud kitchen by a chef who’s never left Maharashtra. This might sound like a...

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Arhan Bagati

Delhi’s New BJP Government: Tougher Road Ahead

With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) set to form the government in Delhi next week, the measuring bar of public expectation has been raised...

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Surinder Singh Oberoi

Dhambali: Tracing its origin

After a very long gap we could recently see few glimpses of centuries old dhambali, whirling at few Sufi shrines, most prominently at the Grand...

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Iqbal Ahmad

Humour Humiliated

In a recent controversy at comedy show India’s Got Latent, a joke made by a popular comedian sparked a heated debate on the boundaries of humour,...

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Syeda Afshana

Our Unending Power Woes

Is the overall consumption of energy by a household, in a period say one day or one week, proportionally lower in case of load shedding during that...

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Iftikhar A Drabu

Trumpeting a solution

Nearly three weeks ago when the U.S. President Donald Trump resumed his second White House four-year term as the 47th President, he lost little...

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Prof. M. R. Dua

Stream turns into a cesspool

A few days ago I went out for a walk to a nearby stream in my native village. To my utter disappointment, I found the stream in a very pathetic...

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Peerzada Aarif

Chords of Hope

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) introduces a structured framework for the appeal process in criminal cases, ensuring a fair and...

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Muneeb Rashid Malik

Seeking NGT’s intervention for petty cases

Climate activism got a great boost when environmental rights were recognized as “fundamental right” under Article 21 (Right to Life) of the...

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Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat

Trump: President Estates!

US President Donald Trump met Jordan’s King Abdullah II on February 11 at the White House. After having a brief round of talks the two leaders met...

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Vivek Katju

Harnessing Solar Power

Jammu and Kashmir has long been crippled by chronic power shortages, a problem exacerbated by shifting weather patterns, rising demand, and...

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Shakeel Qalander

Our Elderly AND THEIR food habits

Indian industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Naval Tata has so wisely said, “Eat your food as your medicine. Otherwise you have to eat medicine as...

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Dr Rafeeq Masoodi

Is Life an Accident?

Did life appear on the earth because it found conditions conducive for its appearance or was the earth deliberately designed and positioned in the...

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Gk Editorial Desk

Science and Nature in Heart Care

The heart has captivated the imagination of humanity for millennia—not merely as the vessel of life but as a metaphor for existence, love, and the...

14.02.2025 9

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Dr Showkat Hussain Shah

Save youth, save future

Jammu and Kashmir, a land of beauty and culture, is being destroyed by liquor and drugs. This poison is turning our youth into addicts, criminals,...

14.02.2025 3

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Imran Ahmad Sheikh

Women-Centric Cancer Care in Kashmir

For Dr Shabnam Bashir, a leading surgeon specializing in breast and colorectal cancers, the lack of accessible, women-centric cancer care in...

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Shaista Altaf

A Natural Fix

First ever constructed wetland (CW) was built in Australia in 1904. However, the first experiments on using natural wetland plants in CWs to treat...

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Guest Contributor

When jokes land badly

Ranveer Allahbadia, popularly known as BeerBiceps, seems to have chugged too much controversy this time. What started as a seemingly...

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Dr. Mehak Jonjua

Remembering the Professor

With countless cherished memories of Prof. Gilkar, I find myself at a loss for words to capture the remarkable qualities of this noble soul. Prof....

13.02.2025 2

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Prof Mohammad Ismail

Bridging the Governance Gap

Governance in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) continues to be plagued by red tape. Despite the Government of India’s excellent initiatives to promote...

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Imran Khurshid

The Sacred Walnut

During my last visit to Srinagar, while returning from a stroll late in the evening, my father called me and reminded me to get walnuts with shells...

13.02.2025 2

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Prof Upendra Kaul

Continuing Economic Momentum

Yet again, the Indian Economy dispels the doubts of low growth and deep economic disruptions. Its economic indicators vindicate the prospects of...

13.02.2025 1

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Dr Mehraj Ud Din Shah

A Chance To Grow Old

Not everyone gets a chance to grow old. If one does end up getting dressed by old age, it can be called a fortune. Old age engulfs a person, it...

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Abdullah Bin Zubair

Belated New Year Ruminations

“All power comes from the people. But where does it go?”, asked Bertolt Brecht the great playwright, poet and theatre director. While most people...

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Haseeb Drabu

Global Concerns

As the world wakes up to the post trump scenario, certain things are very alarming. The way current global systems are getting stressed by the...

13.02.2025 7

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Gk Editorial Desk

Human Cost of Ignoring Mental Health

Mental health, a topic that’s rapidly growing- catalyzed by social media and globalization – is gaining broader attention. The dictionary...

12.02.2025 1

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Musaib Bilal

Bridging Distances in Healthcare

Couple of years back the paediatrics facility at Sonwar Srinagar, which being the associated hospital of Government Medical College Srinagar was...

12.02.2025 10

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M. Shuaib Wani

Enforcing Digital Curfew

It is good to see that the debate on digital awareness is ongoing in Kashmir. Digital addiction is no longer a futuristic concern—it is a present...

12.02.2025 1

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Dr. Zubair Saleem

Tips for Your Train Journey!

The concept of long-distance train travel may be new to the residents of Kashmir. Most locals are more used to cabs, buses, and airplanes because...

12.02.2025 1

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Dr Shahid Amin

No contempt, please!

Ages have passed since the existence of the earth, but human folly has remained – as a legacy. From the times of slavery to racism to colonialism,...

12.02.2025 1

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Faizaan Bashir

Productive top level meetings

Productive meetings between the top leadership of the elected government of Jammu and Kashmir and central government are very important for better...

12.02.2025 1

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Zahoor Malik

A case of non-existent text books

Now that the schools are opening after the long winter vacations, by the end of this month, we will have children back to classes and all school...

12.02.2025 1

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Gk Editorial Desk