LEH: The Union Minister for Power KC Venugopal along with the Minister of State for Power and CAPD Shabir Ahmad Khan today visited 45 MW Alchi hydel project to carry out on the spot inspection of t

Governor NN Vohra, who is also the Chairman of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), today visited the Baltal, Panjtarni and Nunwan base camps and reviewed the arrangements made for the annual Amarnath yatra,scheduled to commence on June 29.

The Governor, accompanied by Sunita Narain, member of the SASB, and RK Goyal, CEO of the board, first visited Baltal this morning and reviewed the yatra-r

SRINAGAR: Civil Society converged at a seminar titled "Management of water resources in J&K and State

The strategically important Srinagar-Leh National Highway was thrown open to vehicular traffic today after it remained closed for more than five months due to heavy snowfall.

The highway was thrown open by the General-Officer-in-Commanding of Srinagar-based 15 Corps of the Army, Lt-Gen SA Hasnain.

JAMMU, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday underlined the need for comprehensive and balanced development of twin capital cities and towns in the State keeping in view the challenges on account of sewerage, drainage, transport, parking, housing and commercial activities.

Chairing a high level meeting to take brief about the reforms in urban development sector, the Chief Minister stressed

JAMMU, Chief Secretary, Madhav Lal today asked the concerned agencies to work out solutions to the bottlenecks coming in the way of on time completion of Rs. 262.15 crore sewerage treatment projects in the mission cities of Jammu and Srinagar.

SRINAGAR Amid fresh rain and snowfall, the unusual cold spell for April continued to shiver people in Kashmir valley today with day temperature in Srinagar, the summer capital of the State, plunging to nearly seven degree centigrade below the normal.

Srinagar: A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook Srinagar and triggered panic across the city on Monday.

State disaster management cell project manager Aamir Ali said tremors lasted for a few seconds and caused no loss to life or property anywhere in the Valley, where earthquake prone districts of Srinagar, Kupwara and Baramulla fall under seismic zone V.

Kashmir valley experienced fresh spell of snowfall today. While the upper reaches received moderate to heavy snowfall, the same was light at district headquarters and towns. Srinagar was covered with thick blanket of snow during last night.