Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Vishaw stream gasps for breath amid mining pollution" appearing in Greater Kashmir dated 16.12.2024 dated 23/04/2025. In the original application, registered suo motu, the tribunal is examining the grievance of a deteriorating trout population in the Vishaw …
Environmental think tank the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Wednesday blamed the flood crisis on badly planned development, mismanagement of the drainage system and an abject lack of disaster preparedness. Its director-general Sunita Narain said here the sudden massive rainfall event over Srinagar fit in to the growing …
Large scale rescue efforts are under way in Jammu on Tuesday to rescue lakhs of people trapped in flood-ravaged areas, with IAF choppers and transport aircraft undertaking non-stop sorties overnight to carry men and relief material to submerged parts. As most of the areas remain inaccessible due to cutting off …
As Jammu and Kashmir continues to reel under its worst floods in 60 years, which have stranded over 6 lakh people and killed about 200, the attention is slowly veering towards the reasons and causes behind this unprecedented natural disaster. An analysis by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) suggests …
Pakistani soldiers use an inflatable boat to rescue flood-affected residents from a village at Jalalpur Bhattian in the Hafizabad district in Punjab province on September 8, 2014. The death toll from floods in India and Pakistan has passed 375 as authorities continue efforts to rescue hundreds of thousands of stranded …
23,000 rescued, Communication links still down; Pakistan DGMO offers help Lakhs remained stranded and many others on rooftops in several parts of the flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir, even as Army Chief Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag on Monday declared that troops will continue to carry out relief operations in the state …
14 more die in Jammu as toll mounts to 184 in J-K Modi visits state, announces Rs 1,000 crore aid Omar tells people help on way Army, IAF step up efforts At least 130 Army columns and 50 Army medical teams have been deployed in the state. The IAF has …
PM announces Rs. 1,000 cr. more; Army evacuates 15,000 The flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir was declared a “national-level disaster” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday even as the Army alone evacuated 15,000 people from inundated areas across the State. As more personnel of the National Disaster Relief …
Even as it finally stopped raining on Sunday, after five days of continuous downpour, reports of more deaths and destruction poured in from across the state. More than 150 people are reported to have died in the last six days, while thousands are stranded. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who held …
Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) said news about the Yusmarg as an alternate ‘firing range’ to Tosamaidan has once again become an issue of controversy. In a statement, KEA Chairman Mohammad Yasin Khan said it is great concern that tourist destinations are being used for ‘firing range’ which isaffecting the ecological …
Seventy members of a marriage party were feared dead after the bus in which they were travelling was swept away in a flash flood in Nowshera tehsil of Rajouri district today. Sources said the bus, which was on its way from Bhata village to Lam, overturned after it got stuck …
BSF officer, Army jawan among dead; NH blocked for 8 hours Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain in Jammu & Kashmir killed seven persons, including a BSF officer and an Army jawan, on Wednesday. Over two dozen villages have been flooded in the Jammu region and authorities have …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Dr. Irfan Ahmad & Ors. Vs. Mr. Nawang Rigzin Jora & Ors. dated 29/08/2014 regarding landfill dumping site at Achan, Srinagar. The Tribunal has directed the Commissioner of Municipal Corporation to discuss with the State Government …
Monday, August 18, 2014 - Srinagar—Concerned at the continued and sharp deterioration of general quality of environment and ecology of Jammu & Kashmir, Kashmir Centre for Social and Developmental Studies (KCSDS) Saturday organized a round table discussion here to evolve a public consensus for protection of fragile ecology of Kashmir. …
Over 60 per cent of government schools in J&K; have no toilets, a Department of School Education and Literacy (DISE) survey 2013- 2014 conducted by the Union Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) survey revealed. According to the MHRD’s nation-wide survey, 18.7 per cent government schools in the state …
Kashmir being one of the most favourite international tourist destinations, doctors here have warned that the Valley is more vulnerable than any other state to pandemic viruses like Ebola, which has so for claimed more than 900 lives in West Africa and is spreading to other countries as well. Claiming …
Their population increased by 2.88 lakh during 2001-11 The slum dwellers in Jammu and Kashmir have increased by 2.88 lakh between 2001 and 2011 with the slum population crossing the staggering 6.5 lakh mark, this has been revealed in the Union Urban Development Ministry report. According to the Union Ministry, …
NEW DELHI: Fifty-six proposals under Forest Conservation Act and 11 projects under Environment Impact Assessment Notification for roads and public utility sectors were granted clearance in hilly states during the last one year, government today said. Presently, 55 projects for forest clearance and one project for environment clearance are pending …
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has issued a warning to the hotels in the state which are without sewage treatment plants (STPs) but are operating 19 rooms. The court, in its orders made available today, observed that the permission to the hotels in A-category to operate 19 rooms was …
Setting a target of 5416 Ha (area) to be treated for Compensatory Afforestation during 2014-15, the Steering Committee of CAMPA headed by Chief Secretary, Mohammad Iqbal Khandey today approved an outlay of Rs 49 crore for the purpose. The Committee also gave approval to the annual plan of operation of …
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit Pakistan-occupied Gilgit late on Tuesday night and resultant mild tremors were felt in Doda and Kishtwar districts of Jammu and Kashmir. The quake struck Gilgit at 9.05 p.m., the Indian Meteorological department said. No casualty, damage However, no report of casualty …
