Ishfaq-ul-Hassan

April 16, 2024

Kashmir’s Titanic tragedy: Numbing grief overtakes Valley

Srinagar: Every eye became moist when a group of women recited a heart-wrenching elegy for a mother and her two sons who were fished out of Jhelum after a boat capsized at…

Kashmir·Lead Stories·Tech-Film

January 6, 2024

`Visionary tale of perception, superiority, evolution’: Hina Khan starrer `Country of Blind’ receives 7.4 rating

Srinagar: Forget `Dunki’ and `Animal’, ` The Country of Blind’, a movie by Kashmir actors and filmmakers, has received 7.4 CAT INDEX rating from a highly respected Cult Critic magazine. “A visionary…

Kashmir·Lead Stories

January 1, 2024

Brand Kashmir: in a first, 21392 handicraft products GI tagged to boost exports

SRINAGAR: For the first time, 21392 handicrafts products were Geographical Indication (GI) tagged in the first three-quarters of FY24. Official figures reveal that 21392 products have been labeled from April to December 31, 2023. In the…

Big relief for ReT teachers: J&K govt fast-tracks regularization process

Srinagar: The government has fast-tracked the process to regularize the last batch of 630 Rehbar-e-Taleem (ReT) teachers in Jammu and Kashmir. Most of these cases are pending due to discrepancies in date…

June 6, 2021

Education·Kashmir·Latest News·Lead Stories·News

Vaccination drive covers farmers right where they toil in south Kashmir's Pulwama (Source: Twitter @dcpulwama)

COVID vaccination coverage: J&K likely to edge out Kerala, attain top spot

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir is likely to edge out Kerala to attain the top spot in the vaccination coverage. Jammu and Kashmir currently ranks second after Kerala in the COVID 19 vaccination…

June 4, 2021

Health·Kashmir

COVID vaccination coverage: J&K likely to edge out Kerala, attain top spot

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir is likely to edge out Kerala to attain the top spot in the vaccination coverage. Jammu and Kashmir currently ranks second after Kerala in the COVID 19 vaccination…

June 4, 2021

Kashmir·Latest News·Lead Stories

People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration: Done, dead, and dusted

By Ishfaq-ul-Hassan – Last week, National Conference (NC) sent feelers to end the boycott of the Centre’s delimitation commission. It marked a significant shift in the NC’s policy post-August 5, 2019 when…

June 2, 2021

Proud moment for J&K: Despite COVID scare, three climbers from south Kashmir’s mountaineering institute scale Mount Everest

SRINAGAR: COVID scare notwithstanding, three climbers from Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports (JIMWS), Pahalgam, scaled Mount Everest on Tuesday. This is for the first time that JIMWS mountaineers have scaled…

June 1, 2021

Kashmir·India·Latest News·Lead Stories·News·Sports

‘Self-sufficient’ J&K takes oxygen supply to next level, to establish generation plants near LoC

SRINAGAR: When the country is battling an oxygen crisis, Jammu and Kashmir government has taken O2 supply and distribution to the next level in the union territory. For the first time, oxygen…

May 31, 2021

Health·India·Kashmir·Latest News

The Kashmir Monitor impact: Big relief for underprivileged students as Jammu’s BGSB University slashes fee by 50%

Srinagar: Two months after The Kashmir Monitor broke the story about underprivileged students unable to afford higher education in the Pir Panjal region, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) has slashed the fee up…

May 29, 2021

Education·Kashmir·Latest News·Lead Stories

Opinion: The curious case of Facebook journalism in Kashmir

A few weeks ago, a video of a so-called reporter barging into the COVID ward coercing doctors and patients to talk had sent shockwaves across Kashmir. A reporter with a gun-mike possibly…

May 28, 2021

Kashmir·Latest News·Opinion

Volunteers of Ababeel carrying the man down the pass - KM/Special Arrangement

‘We felt humanity is dead’: Suspected COVID positive man dies after abandoned by family, neighbours in Jammu’s Doda

Srinagar: Chenab valley has slipped into a shock after a 65-year-old man, suspected to be COVID positive, died in a hospital days after he was abandoned by his family and neighbors in…

May 25, 2021

News·India·Kashmir·Latest News·Lead Stories

‘I served the first patient, shrouded the first body’: Meet Kashmir medic who considers serving Covid patients ‘religious duty’

Srinagar: Nursing supervisor Riyaz Ahmad vividly remembers the day when the first COVID patient gifted him a book about the philosophy of life and death in Islam. Flashback of the patient still…

May 24, 2021

Kashmir·Health·Latest News·Lead Stories

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