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Irfan Quraishi
“They’re shocked we’re from India,” Zahoor laughs. “They ask, ‘You get snow?’ We show them we don’t just get it—we master it.”
Watch : Motivated by pain, housewife from Kashmir turns Mrs. India International-2018
By: Irfan Quraishi
SRINAGAR: “My pain was so deep and cruel. I faced that all alone, hence managed to come out of the ordeal. I decided to leave all my agonies behind to do something for myself”, says Nusrat Parveen.
She took all challenges…
Meet man who give-up schooling to start business for charity, social work
Patriot Correspondent
SRINAGAR: Seeing poverty ridden people in his village Farooq Ahmad Mir develops a zeal for charity, social work since his childhood. Mir, 40 who hails from Hartrath Singhpora village of Pattan town in North…
Meet Flying Women of Kashmir
SRINAGAR: Kaneez Fatima, Iram Habib, Captain Tanvi Raina and Ayesha Aziz are the recent entrants to the exclusive high-flying club. With these women pilots, Kashmir is now gradually getting a good group of women who fly the aircraft. …
Kashmir’s international woman artist braves all odds to achieve success
SRINAGAR: Hailing from a far flung area of Daksum, 110 kilometer from Kashmir summer capital Srinagar in Anantnag district of South Kashmir, Ruhani Syed a 27 year old Kashmiri woman has braved all odds to become a successful unique artist…
Rise of Shujaat
SRINAGAR: Shujaat Bukhari, the editor-in-chief of Rising Kashmir born on 25 February 1968 was shot dead on 14 June 2018 outside his office in Srinagar’s Press Enclave by unknown assailants around 7 pm (Near to Iftar Time) in the Month of…
The ‘Courage’ is Afaq
Patriot Correspondent
SRINAGAR: Afaq Rashid (30), a colon cancer patient despite his illness has been volunteering at the SMHS Hospital on several occasions to take the injured to the wards, procure medicines for the needy, and…
Living with Unemployment
Patriot Correspondent
SRINAGAR: The unemployment in the state of Jammu and Kashmir has been a difficult challenge for the successive regimes besides a gravest problem the youth is facing.
The unemployment problem, among youth…
Kashmiri student invents ‘Traffic model’ to reduce road accidents
Patriot Correspondent
SRINAGAR: The rising number of road mishaps is growing concern in the state of Jammu and Kashmir; especially the deadly blind curves across mountainous roads gives tough time to commuters and passengers traveling all…
Life after 100 pellets pierce you
Journalist Javed Mir’s struggle to recover from 100 pellets in his body, with no help, mirrors the experience of hundreds of other victims in Kashmir
IRFAN QURAISHI tells his story
SRINAGAR: In Kashmir, telling a story doesn’t demand…