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The Honey Money Khalid Bashir Gura Hectic and labour intense, beekeeping in Kashmir gives good returns as well.KL Image:Bilal Bhadur At a time when people are finding ways to boost immunity against Covid-19, especially in winters, honey is in demand. But the question that haunts consumers most is how pure is it, especially the corporate honey. People want to be sure that they are not consuming sugar. The recent report of adulteration by India’s leading honey brands to maximise profits h...

The Raffughar While obediently following his parents’ dreams of chasing for a medical school seat, a young boy was fascinated by a painter’s brush. Finally, when he talked about his desires, the family threw a canvas before him. Within years he emerged with Raffughar, a new upmarket Kashmir brand, reports Khalid Bashir Gura Wajahat Hussain Rather, the man behind the Raffughar label More than three decades ago, a little boy would routinely linger around signboard painters and watch ke...

Rahul Pandita’s ‘Our Moon Has Blood Clots’ vis-à-vis Khalid Bashir’s ‘Kashmir: Exposing the Myth Behind the Narrative’ In the month of October I was searching for books on Kashmir on an online book store. I zeroed in on two books, one by Rahul Pandita, ‘Our Moon Has Blood Clots’, and the second by erstwhile GK columnist and noted poet-cum-historian Khalid Bashir, ‘Kashmir: Exposing the Myth Behind the Narrative’. Now I had a choice to make: which one to read first? I decide...

Cast In Stone Khalid Bashir Gura Pather Masjid in the heart of Srinagar is the only living monument f Mughal architecture in Kashmir. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur Pathar Masjid (The Stone Mosque) is one of Srinagar’s key infrastructures of faith and culture. Built by Nur Jahan, the queen wife of Mughal emperor Jahangir, in 1623 AD, the mosque is also known as Naev Masjid (New Mosque) and Shahi-i- Masjid (Royal Mosque) as well This is perhaps the only mosque other than Jamia Masjid that is m...

Meet The Orphan Who Topped SSB’s Panchayat Accountants Examination Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: After the elected government crumbled under its won weight, the government halted the process of hiring people. The long lull broke when the JKSSB Panchayat Accounts Assistant examination was held on November 10 for 1,889 vacancies for the 2020 recruitment programme. As many as 1, 64,055 candidates had appeared for the OMR based exam. Abdul Shakoor Itoo The candidates who qualified in the ex...

SRINAGAR: On the Phase-II of the Mission Wushnaer, a serpentine queue of unprivileged people waited in the lawns of Lal Bazar’s Bilaliya Education Institute on Sunday, on the eve of the start of Chila-ie-Kalan, the harshest 40 days of Kashmir winter. Wushnaer is a Kashmiri word meaning warmth and various like-minded individuals and institutions have joined hands to set up Mission Wushnaer.  Mission Wushnaer is a collective effort of various individuals and groups to help families stay wa...

Meet The Man Who Has The History Of Topping All His Examinations, Everywhere Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: Soft-spoken, Dr Mohsin Raj Mantoo, 27, has added many feathers in his cap as he has topped three national-level Super Speciality exams in NEET, AIIMS, and PGI. Dr Mohsin Raj Mantoo A resident of Dooru, Anantnag, Mantoo’s continues to ascend to excellence started when he passed his twelfth class from Iqbal Memorial Institute, Anantnag where he secured the first rank in the medical s...

Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: Shaista Bashir a resident of Gund Roshan in Ganderbal has made her parents proud by qualifying National Entrance Eligibility Test (NEET) examination and has secured an MBBS seat in the second round of counselling at Jammu. She is the daughter of an underprivileged family. Her father is a village barber. “I am happy for what I have achieved and it is because of my parents, teachers who trusted and supported me all through the journey,” she said, insisting she wor...