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How Insulin Killed The Practice of Keeping Diabetic Alive By Enforced Hunger?
by Jameel Barkat 100 years down the line, Insulin is still not flowing in the veins of the millions of people who desperately need it. Unfortunately, it remains inaccessible due to its exorbitant...
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Online MBBS
The pandemic has forced the students enrolled with offshore medical schools to study virtually from home. This is putting a question mark over their competence as future doctors, reports Farzana Nisar...
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‘We Are Trying To Technologically Equip Our Schools’
Director of School Education Kashmir, Tassaduq Hussain Mir is a busy man these days. He has to ensure that the government schools adopt and adapt to the online mode of teaching. In an interview, Mir...
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Two Videos, Two Stories
For the last many years, social media is triggering decision-making within the government and society. Last week demonstrated it yet again when the Jammu and Kashmir administration reacted to two...
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Wise Decisions
Youngsters in Kashmir have started taking control of their education. This year, three students bagged UWC scholarships for International Baccalaureate diploma at select United World Colleges, reports...
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Broken Contract
Hundreds of contractual lecturers working for years at various higher secondary schools and colleges were abruptly disengaged after August 2019. Now, in their late twenties and thirties, they are...
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Online Un-learning
The transition from teacher-class based teaching to digital education has not been smooth in Kashmir, nor is it helping students to learn, reports Khalid Bashir Gura Students appearing in the annual...
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‘Online Teaching Lacks An Impact Unlike Offline Class Work’
As higher educational set-up is gradually limping back towards offline mode, Director Education, Kashmir Tasaduq Hussain talks about the challenges in the last two years that the education department...
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‘IUST Has Filed 28 Patents’
Almost 40 days after Dr Shakil A Romshoo, Kashmir’s foremost earth scientist, took over as the Vice-Chancellor of the IUST, he told Khalid Bashir Gura about his plans for an academic campus that has...
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Reviving An Art
Caught by immobility dictated by situation and pandemic, a number of girls started reviving the forgotten art of calligraphy and some of them were so encouraged by the response that they are about to...
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Disquiet In Medical Schools
With authorities opening a section of graduate and half of the postgraduate medical education berths to an All India Quota, most of the medical college students came out on roads in protest. Scheduled...
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Defusing A Cripple
A labourer’s son had lost his arm while watching a scarp dealer struggle to extract valuable metals from an abandoned explosive device. It took him a lot of time to train his only hand and 11 years...
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Molvi Rasul Shah (1855-1909)
Mirwaiz Rasul Shah followed Sir Syed Ahmad Khan at a time when the educational deficit had started crippling Kashmiri Muslims, writes M J Aslam Islamia High School (Rajouri Kadal) Srinagar is the...
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Dhaka Despatches
Kashmir’s desperation to have a doctor in a family helped Bangladesh emerge as the new destination for medical training. After a medical student’s mysterious death recently, Raashid Andrabi talked to...
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Virtual Costs
As Covid19 pushed the world towards the tiny phone screens, it has started severely impacting the new generation. Zakia Qurashi talks to experts to offer an idea of the consequences A young student in...
View ArticleTrendsetting Results
The results of the tenth and twelfth standard examination by the JK Board of School Education (BOSE) involving 150 thousand students offers some clear and interesting indications of the state and...
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Fleeing The War Theatre
As Russia finally invaded the NATO member, Ukraine, its weakest neighbour, scores of Kashmiris were caught in the medical campuses. While efforts are underway to evacuate them, Syed Samreen talked to a...
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Manage This Happy Horror
Grades in examinations are no sure indicator of a student’s efficiency and capacity. For most of the higher studies institutions go for a separate test. Dr Qudsia Gani suggest that the JKBOSE must get...
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Course Correction
Kashmir’s seminary network is acknowledging the concerns but it would require strong societal backing to encourage the Dar-ul-Ulooms’ to start producing skilled people so that their graduates have...
View ArticleNew Generation, New Education
The New Education Policy 2020 is aimed at revolutionising the educational set-up and making the new generation acquire the basics that the evolved market is looking at, reports Mariah Shah In a serious...
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