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SRINAGAR: Global auctioning site, Soothbay sold a copy of an illuminated Quran for 18380 UK Pounds (Rs 19.04 lakh). The handwritten Quran was produced in Kashmir somewhere in 1821. The 311-page manuscript has the Quran written on gold-speckled paper leaves in naskh in black ink.
SRINAGAR: In the first-ever twelfth class results comprising all the students from Jammu and Kashmir – except for parts of the winter zone in the Jammu region – 65 percent were declared successful. Out of 127,636 candidates who wrote their examinations, 82,441 were declared successful.
By Raashid Andrabi SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing an extraordinary surge in the number of Muslims undertaking the sacred pilgrimage of Hajj this year. More than 13500 Muslims are performing Hajj through the state-run Hajj Corporation of India and the private tour operators.
By Maleeha Sofi SRINAGAR: For a start, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has started getting popular for bad reasons. The technology’s abuse in morphing photographs has taken centre stage indicating the mess it is expected to lead to in the coming days. Reality of the Wrestlers.
SRINAGAR: Suvaid Yaseen, a scholar from Kashmir has been awarded the prestigious Joukowsky Prize for his dissertation at the Brown University in Rhode Islands. The dissertation is titled Islamic Intersections: Religion and Politics in Kashmir in the Long Twentieth-Century.