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 …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Giving a new impetus to development projects in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has decided to revive and put back on rails the Rs.7436-crore 1200-MW Sawalkot hydro-power project over the Chenab in the Kashmir Valley. The project was shelved by the previous Congress-PDP coalition. The project …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Giving a new impetus to development projects in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has decided to revive and put back on rails the Rs.7436-crore 1200-MW Sawalkot hydro-power project over the Chenab in the Kashmir Valley. The project was shelved by the previous Congress-PDP coalition. The project …
To over come scarcity of drinking water in the Kashmir valley, 661 water supply schemes are under execution at an estimated cost of Rs 1,438.85 crore, Minister for Public Health Engineering (PHE), Irrigation and Flood Control Taj Mohiuddin said today. Out of the released expenditure to the tune of Rs …
Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI, Jan 27: The Centre is planning to go ahead with constructing another mega power project on river Chenab in Doda district after the completion of Baglihar. In less than a week after putting the controversial 450 MW hydro-power project on the river Kishanganga on fast track, …
Even as heavy rain and hailstorm in Jammu and its adjoining areas during wee hours today brightened the prospects of rabi crops, in the low lying areas of Khour and plains of Akhnoor, Bishnah, Marh and RS Pura fruit and vegetable crops have taken a beating due to the unprecedented …
Yangchan Dolma Leh, January 19 Many agricultural implements and seeds being distributed among farmers under various schemes are of poor quality. Congress councillor Shafi Lasu alleged this before the LUFT-led Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh, on the first day of the council
Tribune News Service Srinagar, January 18 The vital Jammu-Kashmir highway was closed for traffic today following intermittent rain and snow on many stretches of this surface link between the valley and the rest of the country. A traffic official said snow in Banihal, coupled with continual rain, forced them to …
Former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has expressed concern over the arbitrary exploitation of water resources of the state that has landed it in a financial mess and caused severe power shortage. Mufti Sayeed said it was an irony that despite being in possession of the richest water resources in …
SRINAGAR, Jan 11: Following the ringing of alarm bells about the sharp decline in the number of Kashmir Stag or Hangul, the state government has kick-started its "Save Hangul" project-a long-term captive breeding programme. The Rs 1.67 crore project involves construction of an enclosure for the ex-situ breeding or artificial …
Asifa Amin Koul SRINAGAR, Jan 8: In order to protect the highly endangered spirally horned, Markhor, a bearded goat found in Jammu and Kashmir, the state government is awaiting nod from the Supreme Court to utilize the funds for the Markhor conservation plan. An amount of Rs 17.3 crores to …
Shabir Ibn Yusuf SRINAGAR, Jan 6: Power Development Department's lackadaisical approach has delayed Rs 30 cr drainage project from Rawalapora to Tengpora bridge. As a consequence, the bypass road at present is in dilapidated condition. During the execution of the project, the PDD was to remove 33,000 KV transmission line …
Syed Basharat SRINAGAR, Jan 7: After successfully commencing a research project on Asiatic black bears in Dachigam National Park, the state wild life department is contemplating to fix the Global Positioning System (GPS)-a space-based radionavigation system on Kashmiri Hangul to monitor all weather reliable information about home ranges, seasonal movements, …
Amin Masoodi SRINAGAR, Jan 7: Following increasing attacks on human lives and killing of dozens of cattle by wild animals in Dardpora Kupwara during past two weeks, the wild scare amongst people has increased manifold. On Thursday, Roshi mother of four, was seriously injured by a leopard outside her house …
A new water supply scheme is to be set up by the Army's Naoshera Brigade in Chowki Handan Naoshera village of Jammu and Kashmir to provide drinking water to 5,000 villages. At present, women and children of the village fetch water on their head from a distance of about 3 …
Press Trust of India Posted: Jan 05, 2009 at 0038 hrs IST New Delhi: Moderate to heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand intensified the cold wave conditions in northern India on Sunday, claiming 15 more lives with thick fog also disrupting road, train and air traffic. …
Jammu: Commercial cultivation of flowers is gradually picking up in Jammu and Kashmir. Around 100 women have come forward to set up their own flower farms following a drive by the state floriculture department to encourage them. The department is also holding training workshops for the women to help them …
The crop productivity in Siwalik rainfed areas including kandi belt of Jammu and Kashmir is very low. To improve the agricultural productivity of these areas, a holistic approach through watershed management project was introduced in early 1990 to manipulate land and water resources more efficiently for better crop production. The …
Pandit Kalhan's 12th century text, the 'Rajatarangini' (composed around 1148-1150 AD), which chronicles the history of Kashmir, describes a well conceived and maintained irrigation system. One of the most notable names recorded in the 'Rajatarangini' is Suyya. He is credited with "draining the water of the Vitasta River and controlling …
Research on food used as ethno medicine has drawn comparatively lesser attention as a research field in J&K; in comparison to the other States. Plant foods have been of great help to mankind in relieving many diseases from earliest times. In recent years scientists have found that some foods frequently …
Hangul (Cervus elaphus hanglu) is an endangered cervid restricted to the Kashmir valley. At present, a demographically viable population of Hangul occurs only in Dachigam National Park. Between March 04 and 06, 2004, the Hangul population estimation exercise was carried out at a landscape level in central and southern divisions …
