Letter to the Editor
Rate cuts rollback The Union Government’s move to withdraw its decision to cut the interest rates on small savings by 40-110 basis points from April-June 2021, is a step in the right direction. The rollback came within one day. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has tweeted that the interest rates on small savings schemes of the […]
Maintaining healthy weight can avoid knee replacement
Dr Sanjay Aggarwala Incidences of Joint replacement surgeries have seen an upsurge in the past five years. India is currently facing an epidemic of knee ailments epidemic. According to a recent study, more than 15 crores Indians suffer from knee related problems like loss of cartilage, ACL tear and various types of age related degenerative […]
Nursing as a career
Umair Shafiq Khanday Nursing is one of the noblest healthcare professions which focuses on taking care of individuals and families with the sprinkle of affection, patience, and sympathy. It involves the nursing of the wounded or ill, the shunned and the destitute while treating the patients with care, affection, and patience in order to aid […]
Memories from school days!
Desh Bir I vividly remember the first day I was sent to school. I was admitted at an unusually early age of 4 years to a Girls’ Primary School. My father who was the Headmaster of the local High School sent his peon to take me to school and by way of a happy festive […]
April Fool’s day and fable myths
Sahil Wani April fool’s Day has its roots from multiple historical events, stories and many fable myths. Indubitably, this very day folks celebrated it by playing deceiving jokes, hoodwink pranks and spreading hoaxes with the unfortunate victims called as “April Fool”. History of April fool’s Day April fool’s Day spread throughout Britain during the 18th […]
Letter to the Editor
Encourage bilateral trade Pakistan’s decision to allow imports from India is a welcome move. Pakistan is finally permitting the import of yarn and five lakh tonnes of sugar from the country. This will help India to explore the market and reduce carry overstock for the following season. Here before, Pakistan had stopped the import of […]
The language the world is familiar with
Mir Jamid Afzal Arabic is one of the World’s major languages with roughly 300 million speakers in twenty two Arab countries. In 1974, Arabic was attested as one of the sixth United Nation’s official languages alongside Chinese, Russian, English, French and Spanish. As a Semitic language, Arabic possesses many unique linguistic characteristics such as writing […]
“Mal-der’ or Herpes zoster and people in Kashmir
Umair Shafiq Bashir Kak is not well, because he had acute pain on the right side of his chest and back since the last 5 days now. He has already received injections from ‘Riyaz Saeb’ –the local pharmacist who doubles as the local ‘doctor saeb’ for the locality. There has been no relief in the […]
Mental health needs more attention
Dr. Samant Darshi Often the waves of any form of socio-political turbulence in a country are paralleled by roaring waves of angst and worry in normal citizens. During such times the mass consciousness resonates a dread of any unprecedented or unexpected event. Particularly in today’s time when the use of social networking is pervasive, all […]
Medicinal plants in Kashmir
Abrar Yousuf Mir Human society depends on numerous Bio-Resources, amongst which plants play an important role providing food, clothing, timber, fuel, medicine and so on. In fact humans have been using plants since ages to cure different ailments and of the total 297,000–510,000 plant species found worldwide and about 70,000 (ca. 10–18%) are believed to […]
