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 …
WHAT THE PIL SAYS In the PIL,‘Mujeeb Andrabi versus State’, the petitioners had prayed that the High Court take a “strong note” of the constructions made illegally without permission from the Srinagar Municipal Corporation and in violation of the master plan in Srinagar city and pass directions to the authorities …
The State Agriculture Policy is aimed at developing a road map that will seek to actualize the vast untapped growth potential of the agriculture, promote value addition, accelerate the growth of agri-business, create employment in rural areas, secure fair standard of living for the farmers and agricultural workers and their …
The State Agriculture Policy is aimed at developing a road map that will seek to actualize the vast untapped growth potential of the agriculture, promote value addition, accelerate the growth of agri-business, create employment in rural areas, secure fair standard of living for the farmers and agricultural workers and their …
With Pahalgam Development Authority (PDA) claiming to have sealed all the hotels and restaurants operating without Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) and other pollution control devices, most of such hotels, sources said, continue to carry on their business in violation of the high court directive. A division bench of the high …
How well do the IPCC-AR4 models simulate the observed 20th century warming as well as its future projection over the Western Himalayan region of India? - A presentation by Dr. L. Das and M. Dutta at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October …
The High Court has allowed one month operation of hotels that have installed Sewerage Treatment Plants (STPs) after being sealed by the Pollution Control Board (PCB) in Gulmarg. As the matter came up for hearing, a division bench of the High Court comprising of Chief Justice M M Kumar and …
Authorities told to demolish illegal structures without show-cause notice The J&K; High Court has banned construction within 100 metres from the banks of the Sindh river in Ganderbal district. It has also empowered the authorities concerned to demolition any such construction without issuing a show-cause notice. These directions were passed …
The Punjab Government is verifying whether stone crushers in a border area of Punjab are using material mined in neighbouring states of Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal. Information to this effect was provided to the Punjab and Haryana High Court this morning during the hearing of a suo motu case …
Tightening its noose around the hoteliers operating without pollution control devices including sewage treatment plants (STPs) at the world famous tourist spot of Pahalgam, Pahalgam development authority PDA, the main nodal agency for the development of the place today sealed 28 more hotels found carrying on their business in violation …
Infrastructure projects running in the state are eating up the forest cover of the ecologically fragile Jammu and Kashmir, this has been revealed in the official statistics of the Department of Forests, Environment and Ecology. As per the figures, 875.6647 hectares of forest land has been used for construction of …
Out of the over 8,000 people affected by the Ranjit Sagar Dam project, as many as 2,000 persons whose land was acquired for construction of the dam in 1997 are yet to be paid compensation by the Punjab Government. The amount due to these people is Rs 28.42 crore. The …
12 new cases of Dengue surfaced in Jammu region on Monday out of which seven cases in Jammu district and five cases were reported in Samba district. As the health authorities are grappling to tame the deadly disease, the steady flow of new cases will certainly be a nightmare for …
Implementing the high court directive, Pahalgam Developed Authority (PDA) has served notices to the 80 hotels found operating in violation of the Pollution Control Board norms. The division bench of the state high court on Friday in response to the report submitted by the Pollution Control Board ordered the suspension …
The hotel and restaurant owners in Kashmir today threatened to close down their hotels if the state authorities went ahead with their “suppressive policy” towards the them. The threat was hurled by them at a joint press conference here today. The press conference was addressed by G M Dug, Showkat …
Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora while presenting a comparison report of the measurements carried out by Sir Walter R. Lawrence in 1895 and the latest available data including satellite imaginary said that there has been no shrinkage in the area of the Dal and …
After having remained in limbo for years, finally the much-hyped solid waste management project of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has finally moved an inch forward with the latter getting approval from the government to start it on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) basis. According to JMC authorities, the project was for long …
Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) in its initiative under “Clean up Jammu” sanitation drive reached out to citizens residing in Ward number 53 and 54 covering Trikuta Nagar Sector 1 to 4, Basant Vihar, Bhawani Vihar, Laxmi Enclave, Khoo Walli Galli, Trikuta Nagar Sector 5 to 9 and Shiva Colony. On …
Biodiversity management committees at local levels are documenting biodiverse species in the locality to prepare Biodiversity Registers. So far, 1,650 registers have been prepared nation-wide, said Balakrishna Pisupati, Chairman of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA), on Monday. Dr. Balakrishna told The Hindu with the active role of the Biodiversity Management …
New Delhi: More than three years after the implementation of the RTE Act and an expenditure of over Rs 46,282.11 crore on school infrastructure, around 1.28 lakh out of 10,75,407 government elementary schools across the country still don’t have toilets and over 61,000 lack drinking water facilities. According to the …
As the existing water supply schemes apparently proved insufficient to meet the requirement of Katra during the pilgrim rush, the state government has deputed a team of technical experts to prepare a comprehensive “Vision Document” to meet the drinking water needs of the town. The team has been given a …
