Firdous Hassan

Self-help believer, a gadget lover and nature's admirer.
Presently Senior reporter at The Kashmir Monitor with an experience of nine years in reporting business, crime, defense, politics and environment.Have also contributed to reputed media organizations including First Post, India Spend, Forbes India

`More like seasonal infection’: Doctors urge people not to panic as Covid cases rise

Srinagar, June 2: Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, doctors have urged people not to panic, given that the virus is behaving more like a seasonal infection. Dr. Aijaz Nabbi Koul, head of

Jun. 3, 2025

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Saffron to almonds: How Pahalgam attack dealt a killer blow to Kashmir’s dry fruit industry

Srinagar, May 29: Dry fruit seller Abdul Hamid Bhat rearranges mounds of almonds and raisins for the third time in an hour — not because they’re being sold, but to keep himself busy. “Since the Pahalgam attack, business has collapsed.

May. 29, 2025

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Deepening worries, mounting losses: Post Pahalgam, tourist transporters face uphill battle to pay loans

Srinagar, May 23: At Srinagar’s once-bustling Tourist Reception Centre, rows of parked tourist vans and SUVs

How Techie’s thrift store is redefining fashion in Kashmir

Srinagar, May 20: Sameer Ahmad Bhat, 28 was doing a well-paying job in Bangalore. A techie by

Highest number of MCC violations from JK

Cases include money-for-vote, Govt officials campaigning, transfers

Apr. 8, 2019

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Valley sees first Sunday of highway closure

Srinagar, Apr 7: Hundreds of vehicles were Sunday stranded on intersections while people took on-foot journeys to their destinations as government executed the ban order by prohibiting civilian traffic on the over

Apr. 7, 2019

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LS Polls: Farooq declares assets worth Rs 26.28 crore

Srinagar, Apr 5: National Conference (NC) president and candidate for Srinagar parliamentary seat Farooq Abdullah’s property has grown by Rs 16 crores in the last one-and-half year. As per the affidavit submitted

Apr. 5, 2019

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Education, employment, health top priorities of JK voters: Survey

Srinagar, Apr 4: The government’s performance over its promises made during election campaigning as a political party in Jammu and Kashmir has been below average, Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), an election

Apr. 4, 2019

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Tulip Garden opens at 25% bloom

Srinagar, Apr 1: The famed Tulip Garden thrown open for visitors on Sunday here doesn’t have a full bloom so far with many flower beds without flowers, disappointing tourists who expected to

Apr. 1, 2019

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Power from pine cones: Kashmir physicist’s research to debut in world’s leading Science journal

Srinagar, Mar 31: A coincidence similar to noted English physicist Isaac Newton made a Kulgam youth set foot on a journey to find an alternative energy source. It was a routine picnic

Mar. 31, 2019

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GROUND REPORT: South Kashmir cold to polls, all eyes on voter turnout

Pulwama, Mar 28: The graffiti here are drawn across the brick walls in black paint allowing a peek into the lives of people living beyond them. ‘Boycott elections’. ‘Hum kya chahte…’ ‘Hizbul

Mar. 28, 2019

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Internet blockade fails to curb violence: Stanford study

JK loses $28.4 million due to 3-day internet blackout’

Mar. 25, 2019

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Awantipora teacher’s family denies police’s version: ‘Exhume Rizwan to see the torture he bore’

Srinagar, Mar 21: The family of Rizwan Assad Pandith, the slain Awantipora teacher who was killed in police custody in Srinagar, Thursday sought a fresh medical investigation of the deceased to ascertain

Mar. 21, 2019

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Inquiry ordered: Rhetoric of decades

Srinagar, Mar 20: As a magisterial inquiry has been ordered into the custodial killing of Awantipora youth, many families whose members have been killed by government forces find such exercises futile. 29-year-old

Mar. 21, 2019

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Firdous Hassan

`More like seasonal infection’: Doctors urge people not to panic as Covid cases rise

Saffron to almonds: How Pahalgam attack dealt a killer blow to Kashmir’s dry fruit industry

Deepening worries, mounting losses: Post Pahalgam, tourist transporters face uphill battle to pay loans

How Techie’s thrift store is redefining fashion in Kashmir

Highest number of MCC violations from JK

Valley sees first Sunday of highway closure

LS Polls: Farooq declares assets worth Rs 26.28 crore

Education, employment, health top priorities of JK voters: Survey

Tulip Garden opens at 25% bloom

Power from pine cones: Kashmir physicist’s research to debut in world’s leading Science journal

GROUND REPORT: South Kashmir cold to polls, all eyes on voter turnout

Internet blockade fails to curb violence: Stanford study

Awantipora teacher’s family denies police’s version: ‘Exhume Rizwan to see the torture he bore’

Inquiry ordered: Rhetoric of decades

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