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Entrepreneurship

Off late, Jammu and Kashmir has emerged as the major player in helping young men and women to have their own ventures and start-ups. This section features the most successful players who have evolved into role models in a state that has a comparatively higher unemployment rate.

Corn on the go

A simple idea that came outside a movie theater in Qatar helped two engineer friends introduce sweet corn carts in Kashmir. Umar Mukhtar tells...

Smart Technique

A young man who studied industrial techniques in the state-run polytechnic college skipped a job hunt and instead set up a vocational training centre....

Desert Apples

They are only four people who operated from a small office outside Leh’s airport. With an active support system within the organisation and the...

Lahori Designs

As her husband failed to get a job after they returned home with two daughters, the Pakistani wife of a Baramulla resident, revived her...

The Silken Knot

Vested interest, negative policy interventions, market shifts and nature intervened in the unmaking of world’s biggest silk factory in Kashmir. As cocoon production fell...

Rearing a Living

He left a lucrative job outside Kashmir to start a dairy farm in his village. Adding one cow every three months, he has diversified...

“I am trying to convince students to start their own units, like opening a...

A 1999 batch KAS officer, Shabnum Shah Kamli, heads state’s Department of Technical Education (DTE).She tells Syed Asma, despite huge potential to change lives,...

Wazwaan @ Doorstep

Now Kashmiri Wazwaan is just a click away. After they quit their less paying jobs, two brothers decided to tickle people’s taste buds by...

Weaving Wonders

Two friends are determined to revive the once famous art of crochet or Koereshi, by using social media. Heena Muzzafar met the duo to...

The Climber

He proved his critics wrong by setting up a million dollar worth mentoring start-up. Tabish Rafiq Mir maps its journey across half-a-dozen cities   ‘Mark...

Undoing EDI

Second attack in eight months has pushed the EDI into space-scarce that may force it operate from the tents for the time being. In...

Care @ Doorstep

Pained by the sufferings of patients in Kashmir a young hospitality graduate quit his job to introduce care at door-step.  Heena Muzzafar reports In 2015,...

A Brewing Success

Indelible impressions of a picture postcard took her two decades to rediscover the British village and felt inspired in bringing the Tea Party home....

Legacy Lasts

For decades Babademb’s walnut factory has helped many destitute and needy women to survive the onslaught of circumstances and society. Syed Asma takes a...

Electrifying Ambitions

After three decades of struggle with the system Naseer is happy to put Kashmir on transformer manufacturing map. Shakir Mir narrates his journey Naseer Ahmad,...