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Winter activity

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Greater Kashmir

Gk Editorial Desk

Rest in Peace – My Dost

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Greater Kashmir

Rl Bhat

Let’s talk, let’s be human!

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Greater Kashmir

Tawheed Yousuf

Financial burdens, sustained anxiety

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Greater Kashmir

Sheikh Khalid Jehangir

Bayt al-Hikmah: The Arab legacy behind the West’s rise

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Greater Kashmir

Daanish Bin Nabi

The Problem of Historical Perception

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Greater Kashmir

Dr. Abdul Ahad

Kashmiri youth have surat and seerat

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Greater Kashmir

Prof. Gull Mohammad Wani

Collect it, Dump it

For the last many days some respected citizens of Dangerpora Padgampora and its adjoining villages  in Awantipora tehsil of district Pulwama have...

yesterday 10

Greater Kashmir

Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat

With a sense of urgency

The IndiGo operational crisis has once again exposed the vulnerability of a place like Kashmir in terms of travel in and outside this place. This...

yesterday 20

Greater Kashmir

Gk Editorial Desk

Risk of SCAD in Young Mothers

A young woman, barely a week after giving birth, suddenly feels a tight, squeezing pain in her chest. Her family reassures her — “It’s just...

yesterday 20

Greater Kashmir

Dr Zaid Zahoor

Ask the Doctor

Q: My cough worsens in winter but I don’t have fever. Is it an infection? A: Not always. Cold air and air pollution frequently irritate airways. If...

yesterday 10

Greater Kashmir

Gk Health Desk

Rewiring India’s Electricity Future: Watt’s Next for Jammu & Kashmir

The draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025 proposes major changes to the Electricity Act, 2003 to improve the financial health of India’s power...

yesterday 10

Greater Kashmir

Peerzada Mohsin Shafi

Breaking the Silence

A challenging period in life is adolescence. Scientifically speaking, this is the time when a person’s physical, emotional, hormonal, and mental...

yesterday 8

Greater Kashmir

Eyram Hamid Khan

Kashmir’s winter pollution crisis we are ignoring

I am witnessing a large number of patients with upper respiratory issues. They come with familiar complaints, cough, chest tightness, throat...

yesterday 10

Greater Kashmir

Dr. Zubair Saleem

Multilinguality as a key pillar of Education

Education transcends the acquisition of knowledge, becoming a journey that fosters cultural understanding, inclusivity, and personal growth....

monday 6

Greater Kashmir

Guest Contributor

Soaring airfares

Just when Kashmir’s tourism industry was beginning to sense a long-awaited winter rebound, domestic airfares have once again skyrocketed. The Union...

monday 1

Greater Kashmir

Gk Editorial Desk

Till they come to terms with their age!

With Jammu and Kashmir Combined Competitive Examination, on December 7, Sunday, a precedent has been set – no more age relaxation in such exams in...

monday 8

Greater Kashmir

Arun Joshi

A Crisis of Trust

India’s hospitality and travel sectors are standing today at a dangerous turning point. On one side, we see booming tourism, world-class hotels,...

monday 8

Greater Kashmir

Bharat Rawat

J&K: The Economics of Dependency

J&K’s Budget for 2025–26 provides an important window into the region’s fiscal stance and the broader dynamics of economic governance. On the...

monday 1

Greater Kashmir

Malik Daniyal

Maths or no Maths

This is in perpetuation to the write up, “Treating Mathematics as Necessary Evil” written by Prof. M. A. Sofi published on December 04, edition of...

monday 2

Greater Kashmir

Nisar Sultan Lone

8th Pay Commission: The ‘Fitment’ anticipation

Finally, the long wait for a confirmed pay revision may soon be over as discussions around the Fitment Factor Hike 2025 gain momentum across...

monday 6

Greater Kashmir

Dheeraj Jandial

A slow road to recovery

The aftermath of the April–May disturbances has left Jammu and Kashmir’s economy in a fragile state, and the latest figures on rehabilitation offer...

07.12.2025 1

Greater Kashmir

Gk Editorial Desk

Bears on prowl in the city!

It was scary to see Himalayan black bears in various central areas of Srinagar city recently. These bears fearlessly strolled on roads, scaled...

07.12.2025 1

Greater Kashmir

Arif Shafi Wani

Heartfelt guide to winter morning walks

As a cardiologist I am very often asked the question. If it’s safe or even beneficial to continue their morning walks when the temperature drops...

07.12.2025 1

Greater Kashmir

Prof Upendra Kaul

A good beginning

Every city has its own rhythm, but Srinagar’s streets are being tested like never before. Even prestigious stretches — from Lal Chowk to Dargah,...

07.12.2025 1

Greater Kashmir

Syed Afaq Ahmad

Prof. Dost Mohammad: Ever-Green Chinar of KU’s Academic Landscape

The University of Kashmir and the wider academic community mourn the passing of Prof. Dost Mohammad, a respected scholars. His departure is more...

07.12.2025 1

Greater Kashmir

Dr Showkat Rashid Wani

Art and Science of JKNC

Six months before the first assembly elections in the Union Territory of J&K, over noon chai, homemade butter, walnuts and makki ki roti, I heard a...

07.12.2025 1

Greater Kashmir

Ajaz Rashid

From safety net to generational entitlement

The system of reservation in India is perhaps the most critical social experiment undertaken since Independence. Rooted in the need to dismantle...

07.12.2025 2

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Syed Nissar H Gilani

IndiGo Imbroglio

For a few unsettling days, skies told a strange story. Thousands of flights cancelled. Lakhs of passengers stranded. Airports filled with commotion...

06.12.2025 4

Greater Kashmir

Syeda Afshana

India’s new role in a changing global climate

For decades, since my childhood, I have read South Asia’s geopolitics shaped by old arguments: borders drawn in 1947, insurgencies born in the Cold...

06.12.2025 5

Greater Kashmir

Surinder Singh Oberoi

Putin in India: Depth, Direction, and Global Significance

This is not a normal visit aligned with routine foreign trips. It is a scheduled meeting taking place at a turning point. These two days have sent...

06.12.2025 1

Greater Kashmir

Fida Firdous

The Horizon in an Echo

For decades, quantum computing has existed in the collective imagination as a brilliant, distant promise—a future technology locked in a cryogenic...

06.12.2025 4

Greater Kashmir

Arhan Bagati

The Great Train Mystery

After decades of waiting to travel to Kashmir by train, enthusiasts spent the last years watching Youtube – their enthusiasm whetted by breathless...

06.12.2025 4

Greater Kashmir

B R Singh

You are not a report card

“The day a woman decides she is enough as she is, half of society’s power over her breaks.” In our society, a woman is expected to be everything to...

06.12.2025 4

Greater Kashmir

Nazia Qureshi