KASHMIR Compared to the earlier years, the students from Jammu and Kashmir have performed better in the just released NEET results. Of 36431 candidates, 20564 have passed it making a pass. The percentage of 56.44 per cent in 2023 is better than 53.73 per cent of 2019 and 54.21 per cent in 2018.
SRINAGAR: Global auctioning site, Soothbay sold a copy of an illuminated Quran for 18380 UK Pounds (Rs 19.04 lakh). The handwritten Quran was produced in Kashmir somewhere in 1821. The 311-page manuscript has the Quran written on gold-speckled paper leaves in naskh in black ink.