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Revising PMSSS
At the peak of 2010 unrest, Union government initiated a policy that would help students from J&K to study in major educational institution in plains. Almost half a decade after the Prime...
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Super Education
Thanks to all expense paid Super-50 initiative, public school students are now all set to take any competition head on. Saima Bashir reports For years posh Parraypora in Srinagar is known as hub of...
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Counter Point: Why BGSBU is a Good Place to Study!
By Uzair Qadri Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University: A View Of The Campus The current cycle of violence inside the premises of my alma mater – Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU) – gives me...
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Oh, NIT!
When minor scuffle between two student groups gets 24×7 coverage on Television, something is not right. Mohammad Raafi reports how NIT Srinagar is turned into virtual battleground of conflicting...
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The Show Must Go On!
By Basharat Ali The security bandobast, in and outside National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hazratbal, Srinagar. (KL Image: Bilal Bahadur) A Kashmiri student studying in India finds a mention in news...
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Kashmir’s Kota
Thanks to private coaching centres Parrypora is host to diverse aspirations generating Rs 200 crore business. Zafar Afaq reports Students waiting outside a coaching centre in Parraypora Srinagar. It is...
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‘Saffronizing’ BGSBU
Is more than just university level politics involved in frequent violence against non-local students? Mohammad Raafi tries to find out Located at the foothills of Pir Panjal range in Rajouri, Baba...
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Master Verma
At a time when Pandit Township controversy is snowballing into a major crisis in J&K, a Kashmiri Hindu who stayed put in valley during turbulent nineties when his ilk deserted it has emerged a new...
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Leave, Please!
For bulge of workforce working on contractual basis in government sector leave is an emotional issue. While their permanent counterparts enjoy all perks, they are left on the mercy of rules of...
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A for Azaadi
With students literally caged for two months now, options to help them study are not around, barring certain symbolic community efforts in a few areas. Shams Irfan reports about the impact the...
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Curfew Classes
Three-decade-old Kashmir conflict has its own cost. Education sector is one of its causalities but the population used to the months-long unrest and shutdowns is coming up with innovative ways to keep...
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Mysterious Blaze
With 26 schools going up in flames in 113 days of civil uprising, the question everyone seems asking is, who is setting schools afire, reports Syed Asma Hanfia school of Islamabad up in flames. (Photo:...
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Leh Engineer Gets Rolex Enterprise Award To Create Ice Stupas
Engineer Sonam Wangchuk, the man who was Phunsukh Wangdu, a role that Aamir Khan played in his film 3 Idiots by Masood Hussain KL NEWS NETWORK SRINAGAR Sonam Wangchuk, one of Leh’s most know engineers,...
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Teaching Talent
Waseem Aziz with his students from Bunglowbagh Govt. School. His unconventional method of teaching helped him transform a government school in a way that two shifts were needed to manage the rush. It...
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Exams, Eyes & Politics
With ‘dead eyes’ in background and at the peak of a debate over education when parents drove more than 80,000 students to the examination halls amid strike, it was a commoner finally taking his own...
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Saving Namda
An 18-year-old girl’s invention helped save the centuries old art of Namda making. A sports and science fiction buff, she already has her kitty full with offers from top world universities. Heena...
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Gold Hatrick
Insha Zahoor at AMU convocation. Defying conventions Shopian’s Insha Zahoor bagged three gold medals at a recently held convocation in AMU. Saima Bhat talks about her journey Insha Zahoor, 26, was...
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Streetlights and Hairstyles
By Tabish Rafiq Mir Author with his friends in Chennai Streetlights and supermarkets, shopping malls and ships, traffic lights and terraces, autos with meters and buses with tickets (and not sprouting...
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Kashmir in Dehradun
Limitation of options and cut throat competition leaves little scope for majority of students to stay put in Kashmir. They migrate for studying in private colleges outside Kashmir and return with...
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Delayed Degrees
A two year PG course takes more than three years to complete in Kashmir University, leaving students in a fix. Saima Bhat talks to students who regret enrolling at Kashmir’s once prestigious...
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