First Dogs, Now Rats …

Here it is …. Rodents terrorize staff and patients in the Chest Disease (CD) Hospital, Srinagar Rats Rattle CD Hospital Shafat Farooq (Rising Kashmir) Srinagar: While stray dogs have been hogging headlines, rats seem to be not far behind. Concerned by their...

Challenges Facing Women Entrepreneurs

Wajahat offers a short synopsis of challenges faced by women entrepreneurs, but glosses over a key hurdle – Kashmiri women are unable to secure credit without a male co-signer  (Mr. Wajahat Hussain Mattoo is Coordinator at the Jammu & Kashmir...

Education Without Learning

Ishfaq wonders if enough is being done to bring about improvement in the quality of education (Syed Ishfaq Noor is a teacher at the Government Middle School in Mir Mohalla Hygam Zone, Sopore.)  Towards Quality Education Quality education is possible when academic...

Where the Savior is the Criminal

Pandits are saying that under the guise of “public good”, J&K Government is grabbing ancestral land of Pandits and provide token or no compensation in return Govt Itself Involved in Grabbing Land Belonging to Community: KPs Jammu: Ridiculing the...

Development or Defacement of the City?

A Kashmiri architect/planner based in the USA, offers his perspective on infrastructure development plans for Srinagar as proposed by the Government, and requests readers to provide inputs to the funding agency and the project organization Defacing the City Rafique A....