Many Species ! One Planet ! One Future !
Dr. Seemin Rubab This is the theme of current year’s World Environment Day celebrations. The idea commensurates with the theme of International Year of Biodiversity. World Environment Day was declared...
View ArticleOceans of Life
Dr. Seemin RubabJune 8th was celebrated as World Oceans Day. It is a new entrant to various days earmarked to sensitize stakeholders regarding environmental issues. If we think that oceans have no...
View ArticleEnhancing soils anywhere enhances life everywhere
Dr. Seemin RubabThis is the theme of this year’s World Day to Combat Desertification which is observed every year on 17 June. The World Day to Combat Desertification has been observed since 1995 to...
View ArticleChoosing Right
Dr. Seemin RubabSummer heralds results and admission frenzy in India. The results of higher secondary as well as various entrance examinations have been declared. Many of the students who have passed...
View ArticleHow to prepare for KAS Interview
Dr. Seemin Rubab The number of candidates called for Interview is about three times the available positions, hence interview is the deciding factor in the selection. Moreover rank and consequently a...
View ArticleNews Notes
The Militancy PARANOIA IGP and his comrades Return of militancy paranoia ended this week when Srinagar District Police made public that all 13 terror attacks that took place in the last 18 months in...
View ArticleGet Ready For KAS Interview
As the state public service commission last week declared the result of the combined civil service examination, successful candidates will now have to face another round of scrutiny that is the...
View ArticleCareer
Official U-turn Lok Sabha election result unnerved the NC led coalition to its core. After being pilloried electorally, the decision-centers having abandoned their hibernation have accelerated their...
View ArticlePredators at Workplace
State’s health department was in news recently but for all the wrong reasons. The case of a lady doctor accusing her seniors of molestation shows how ‘safe’ women are at workplaces. Experts explain the...
View ArticleFinance and Engineering Career Options
Decisions are indispensable in every aspect of our life, but those which have the long term effect are the ones which are primarily connected with the careers. Finding a satisfactory employment in...
View Article‘Dos & Don’ts to Make it to KAS’
Hilal Ahmad, a KPS officer of 2010 batch tells Saima Rashid the ‘Dos and Don’ts’ of making it to Civil Services Hilal Ahmad (KPS 2010 batch) KL: What do Civil Service exams mean in Kashmir? HA: CSE is...
View Article“Fashion designing sounds alien to people in Kashmir”
Mufti Sadia, 23, owner of ‘Hangers the Closet’ tells Saima Rashid that one doesn’t need any degree to become a fashion designer Mufti Sadia Kashmir life (KL): How to become a fashion designer? Mufti...
View Article“Kashmiris are the Most Impatient Professionals in the World”
Tariq Rehmani, associate Vice President in JD Group, a New Delhi based real estate company, tells Saima Rashid that students in Kashmir have almost no exposure even after completing their degrees Tariq...
View ArticleCounter 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...
View ArticleDrug Interactions: ‘Must-Know’ Facts for Multiple Drug Users
By Zeenat Farooq Drug Interaction, What does it mean? Drug Interaction can literally be described as an interaction between two or more drugs, or some food substance within the body of an individual....
View ArticleRight to Privacy, now a fundamental right
by Zubair Lone Zubair Lone Prior to the recent landmark judgement of Supreme Court declaring privacy a fundamental right and an integral part of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution,...
View ArticleBeating the Parkinson’s Law
by Zubair Lone Have you experienced a scenario where you had been literally sitting idle on a task, paralyzed and incapable of working, for weeks altogether and then suddenly you become a...
View ArticlePublic Health versus Health Care
by Zubair Lone To keep its citizens healthy, governments generally use two modalities to provide holistic health services – public health and healthcare. To a common man, the two may appear to mean the...
View ArticleSafe at School?
by Zubair Lone The recent deaths of two schoolchildren in Gurugram have evoked a massive response in the form of a justified mix of shock, anger, resentment and disquiet across all sections of society....
View ArticleUrban Transport Challenges and the Chinese Bicycle-Sharing
by Zubair Lone Recently, a map created using population data compiled by NASA reveals that cities cover less than 3% of our planet’s land surface but are already home to more than half its population....
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