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Kulgam school holds ‘Save the Water’ programme

Kulgam school holds ‘Save the Water’ programme

Kulgam: As the world is busy debating imminent global water crises, a private school at Yaaro-Noorabad in district Kulgam Friday held an awareness programme themed as ‘Save the Water’. All the students from nursery to 8th standard of Shah-e-Hamdan Mission school Yaaro participated in the event that was aimed at enlightening people about the ‘water […]

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Meet Faat Aap’a, whose healing hands do what even trained orthopedics sometimes can’t!

Meet Faat Aap’a, whose healing hands do what even trained orthopedics sometimes can’t!

Shopian, Mar 25: In Gassipora village of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, a sexagenarian woman widely Known as Faat Aap’a has taken up the practice of bone-setting, and she does it with such a mastery as a trained medic formally trained in orthopedics would do. Obviously Faat Aap’a did not attend any medical college for receiving […]

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Aging couple holds on to the legacy of traditional flour mill

Aging couple holds on to the legacy of traditional flour mill

Kulgam village reminds of ‘The Miller of the Dee’

Kulgam: Like the Clarles Mackay’s ‘The Miller of the Dee’, this elderly couple running a traditional flour mill or ‘Gratte’ at Wokai village in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district since past four decades remains busy in their own world…. The couple in their late 60’s, Abdul Khaliq Hajam and his wife Hajra Begum believes, “the traditional […]