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By Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: More than 150 employees hailing from Jammu and Kashmir serving in the Union Territory of Ladakh in various Government departments have appealed to the Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, to bring them back as promised before the bifurcation of the er...
Stuck In Lockdown, Kashmiri Students Seek Travel Assistance For Going To Bangladesh by Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: Amid the second wave of raging Covid-19 pandemic across India, the future of 100-odd Kashmiri medical students pursuing degrees in Bangladesh is at stake as they are stuck in lockdown in Kashmir while their universities have informed them that their exams will be commencing from May 31. These students had returned to Kashmir last month as their exams were postponed on April 3. Back then, they were informed that the date sheet will be announced at least two weeks after Eid-...
by Khalid Bashir Gura SRINAGAR: As Kashmir valley braces for a third lockdown from Thursday evening owing to the rising Covid-19 cases, the civil society at large is suggesting various measures to contain the raging contagion while keeping a complete lockdown strategy as the last measure. The 84-hour lockdown will be the third consecutive since reading of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. Dr Suhail Naik, President Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) said Section 144 is better with people adhering to Covid-19 appropriate behaviour rather than locking people down. “People can still flatten the cur...
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Exceptional Carver Khalid Bashir Gura A collection of Ghulam Nabi Dar’s works that are awaiting buyers. His art is competitively expensive. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur In one of the cramped alleys of downtown Srinagar, the city of Kashmir, a man in his late sixties drops chisel as he sees to shake hands with this reporter. “I am not scared of the virus,” says Ghulam Nabi Dar, 68. His room where he does walnut woodcarving smells of wood. The wood dust covers everything: a red coloured small radio, wooden planks, an old tin trunk in the corner and stacks of paper with imprinted de...