Changing weather patterns indicate colossal climate change
By: Mudasir Masoodi The sudden increase and equally sudden drop in temperatures and unexpected hotness and dryness in the month of September followed by unusual drop in temperature in October is a clear indication that climate change is actually here. In November, we usually experienced drop in day as well as in night temperature along […]
‘Hope’
Translated from Urdu “Umeed ki Khushi” written by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
By: Abbas Ali “O! Rainbow, you are bright like lightning amidst the brown clouds in the sky. O! Stars in the sky! Your luster is enthralling. O! The concealed lofty peaks! You seem to be conversing with the sky. O! The magnificent trees on the mountain. O! The flora on the high peaks! Why do […]
Understanding the importance of savings
World Thrift Day…
By: M Ahmad World Thrift Day, also known as World Savings Day, is celebrated every year on October 31, across the world, but in India, the day is celebrated annually on October 30. However, the common aim behind celebrating the day is to promote the importance of savings. October 31 was declared World Thrift Day […]
Freedom, Rights and Duties!
By: Zubair Hamid Parray Freedom is a nebulous, abstract concept with different and conflicting interpretations. The concept is nevertheless very essence of human existence for, the exercise of an individual’s freedom may result in the subjugation of another. Freedom or the exercise of it can degenerate into tyranny. Freedom, according to some, is the absence […]
Healthcare provisions, opportunities, demands and expectations
By: Dr Imtiyaz Rasool Ganai There are scores of Healthcare schemes for general public initiated by the government especially by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The Healthcare sector has furnished panacea to citizens irrespective of economic background, gender and age considerations and without any exaggeration the Healthcare in Government Hospitals across the country […]
“Hamlawar Khabardar Kashmir hai Tayaar” The slogan against invasion
By: Dr Adil Rasool Malik Kashmir has always seen struggles gripping its land and people over various geopolitical, religious, supremacy and other agendas. Historically a princely state, Jammu and Kashmir lost its status following the resistance faced by Maharaja Hari Singh from his Muslim subjects forcing him to lose a part of his kingdom and […]
Bio fertilizers relevance, plant tolerance to environmental stress
By: Mohd Sadaq Abiotic and biotic stresses are the major constraints that are affecting the productivity of the crops. Many tools of modern science have been extensively applied for crop improvement under stress, of which PGPRs role as bio protectants has become of paramount importance in this regard. Rhizobium trifolii inoculated with Trifolium alexandrinum showed […]
Invasion of J&K State in 1947: Does the date matter?
By: Col (Retd) Ajay K Raina Come 22 October and we gear up to observe it as the Black Day. It would, in no uncertainterms, an apposite way of revisiting that day in 1947 when invaders who were being led, armed and supported by the Pakistan army, strolled into the territory of the princely State […]
‘RESPECT’
A humble Tribute to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(Translated from Urdu “Ezat”) By: Abbas Ali “Few people know the truth about “Respect,” and fewer deserve the epithets associated with it. Other people respect some people, and they consider themselves so. Wealth, authority, and outer flamboyance make people respected but in vain. They believe themselves respected, and the people too think so. External qualities, […]
India will be known as a vaccine-superpower after Covid-19
By: Dr Balram Bhargava First, the unstinting dedication and untiring efforts of our frontline workers and healthcare professionals involved in the vaccination drive, who have risked their health to work without breaks through the pandemic is one of the main reasons we could achieve this milestone. Second, the rich experience of carrying out one of […]
