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 […]
Bipolar Disorder: Effective treatment methodologies
Dr.Samant Darshi What is Bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder characterized by the presence of episodes of significant disturbance in an individual’s mood and activity level. It is marked by the presence of sustained mood disturbances. A patient with Bipolar disorder can experience a severe depressive episode, mild-moderate depressive episode, hypomania or mania […]
Catch the Rain campaign
Vinod Dixit Prime Minister, Narendra Modi recently launched the ‘Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain’ campaign has come as savoir for the regions which are water deficient. A Memorandum of Agreement was signed between the Union Minister of Jal Shakti and the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to implement the Ken Betwa […]
A Global Concert for a new Global Era?
Asad Mirza Well, the murmurs were already there in the pre-Covid era that the plans are afoot to change the present global governance and usher in a new world order. But now things have slowly started falling in place. Influential think tanks and world bodies are flush with new insights or analytical interpretation of the […]
Letter to the Editor
Curb negative election campaigns The assembly elections campaigns in the five States are creating hate politics. Leaders of all parties are attempting their best to tilt voters towards each other by accusing the opposition. The works which the ruling party has performed for the betterment and development of the public in the last five years […]
Tears fall in my heart
Nasreen Begum Kashmir has proud of literacy and language which started its journey centuries ago that grew consistently rich reaching Adnan Shafi who captivates the fadedness of heart by the consecutive sadism (Wizened heart) Wrap your little fingers around my beating heart Sink your nails deep into the walls of my heart to break my […]
Heart attacks in Kashmir
Umair Shafiq Khanday A heart attack occurs when the flow of blood to the heart is blocked. The blockage is most often a buildup of fat, cholesterol and other substances, which form a plaque in the arteries that feed the heart (coronary arteries). A heart attack, also called a myocardial infarction, can be fatal, but […]