Opinion

SRINAGAR: The song, ‘Ha Gulo’ (O! Gul or the flower-faced beloved), a Kashmiri melody that was recently released by Coke Studio, has been received very well in the Kashmir Valley. Despite an almost permanent gloom hanging in the air due to…

A resident of downtown Srinagar, Iram Habib is set to become the first woman from the city to fly a commercial aircraft. According to a report in The Tribune newspaper, Iram (30) kept her dream to fly an aircraft alive despite pursuing a…

SRINAGAR: Traveling -it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Travel makes everybody more awesome and passionate person. When a dreamer becomes confident about his dream and his abilities can do anything to make his…

SRINAGAR: While it’s true that self-employment has been rising swiftly in the last decade, Mehvish Mehraj Zargar, a 25 years old young girl went right ahead and started “me n u” cafe, in Bemina area of Srinagar. Belonging from Lalbazar…

Pulwama: A Gold medalist in Tang so doo, silver medalist in judo, gold and silver in Thangta and General Secretary of J&K Thang Sodo Association. Aabida Mohiddun from Pampore has come all the way to be a trainer to both boys and girls…

Patriot Monitoring Desk SRINAGAR: Be it Leather, mutton, food procession or any other small scale industry, Kashmir’s industrial sector has either failed to grow or struggling for survive.  What are the reasons and factors behind the…

Kashmir’s children continue to suffer amid silence around child sexual abuse. NEW DELHI: In 2010, Nazia was in the eighth grade and final exams were nearing. On an early autumn day in her school in Kashmir that year, students…

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…

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…

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…