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…

COVID crisis: Vaccine-at-doorstep campaign launched in J&K

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir has launched a massive door-to-door campaign to vaccinate 45 plus people left out in the first two phases of the immunization drive. Leading the campaign is Doda district…

May 21, 2021

Kashmir·Latest News

A non-Muslim Covid victim being cremated in Srinagar on Monday, May 19, 2021 (KM/Umar Ganie)

Opinion – Why is Jammu witnessing more COVID deaths than Kashmir?

By Ishfaq-ul-Hassan – A new debate is raging on social media over the rising COVID fatalities in Jammu. Our social media timelines have been flooded with pictures, videos, and long posts of…

May 21, 2021

Kashmir·Latest News·Opinion

‘UMEED’: Meet young rural Kashmir women who battled poverty to create sanitizer label

Srinagar: Gousia Sulaiman chokes with emotions when she recalls the day her brother dropped out of school because of a life-threatening illness. Daughter of a labourer, she was at the crossroads of…

May 19, 2021

Business·Kashmir·Latest News

‘Of human hearts’: Doctors, paramedics to work pro-bono for SMC-backed COVID hospitals

Srinagar: Summer capital city will have three new charitable COVID hospitals run by a dedicated group of doctors and paramedics who will work pro-bono to help people in distress. The level II hospitals have been…

May 18, 2021

Data suggests vaccine hesitation led to drop in Kashmir jab numbers

SRINAGAR: High decibel immunization campaign notwithstanding, the vaccine hesitancy in the Kashmir valley remains very high compared to the Jammu division. Experts say that the Kashmir region missed targets in the initial…

May 18, 2021

Kashmir·Latest News·Lead Stories

COVID crisis: We shall rise again

Life has come full circle in Kashmir. From snow tsunami to earthquake and from floods to a pandemic, Kashmir braved it all in the last two decades. Thousands of lives were lost…

May 15, 2021

Opinion

Major relief for COVID-hit families in J&K: LG announces pension, other benefits

Srinagar: Extending a healing touch to the pandemic-hit people, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday announced a lifetime pension for senior citizens, a special scholarship for the orphans, and financial assistance…

May 11, 2021

Kashmir·Latest News·Lead Stories

Attendants of COVID19 patients collecting Oxygen cylinders at a Government Hospital in Srinagar on Monday, April 26, 2021 (KM/Umar Ganie)

`Will weather COVID storm’: 20 oxygen plants operationalized in district, sub-district hospitals across Kashmir

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir government has operationalized high-flow Oxygen plants in almost all major district and sub-district hospitals across the valley. More than 20 hospitals have been equipped with an oxygen facility…

May 10, 2021

Being Human: Meet Jammu Samaritans who go beyond call of duty to save lives

Srinagar: Inside an operation theater of Poonch district hospital, 22-year-old Tasleem was groaning with pain. A nine-month pregnant, she was in full-blown labour when she was brought to the hospital. Doctors attending…

May 8, 2021

Kashmir·Latest News·Lead Stories

Opinion: ‘Bebasi’ – Our helplessness to fight a tiny being

Bage amut tche bagae Iram aasene Cche tche praran magar babasi..babasi Shola maran barchast aasene felai Dout walan magar babasi..babasi Kaanse hasil setha bartari aestan Kuwate lashkarai Akbari aestan Kahan Sikandar te…

May 7, 2021

Opinion

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