Jammu and Kashmir is the Indian state with the highest post-60 life expectancy. People of J&K above 60 will live for another 21.1 years on an average. Chattisgarh ranks the lowest where the relevant life span is 15.6 years. On an average an Indian man will live another 17 years after 60 while for a […]
The two-room government dispensary in Amritsar’s Naushera Dhalla village is just 200 metres from the India-Pakistan border. Since September 28 when the Uri attack happened, the work shift for an employee has gone up from 6 to 10 hours. However, the only doctor in the dispensary was moved to camps for evacuated villagers in another […]
The valley. Known as much for the beauty of red roses that come in bloom as for the red wounds that may open up-from a stray bullet, or a bomb. A paradisaical setting which honeymooners avoid for the preservation of their limbs and more. Kashmir, no stranger to violence has been shaken by protests in […]
Four days since street violence has erupted in the Kashmir valley, the hospitals in the state are grappling with caring for the injured. According to official reports the number or injured are 1,365. But the number is dramatically escalating with every day. The violent street protests by ordinary people came in the wake of the […]