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 …
Over ruling objections from Pakistan and asserting that the project was in compliance with the Indus Water Treaty of 1960, the Union Cabinet has given its approval to the implementation of the strategically located 300 MW Kishan Ganga hydro power project in Jammu and Kashmir revising its cost to Rs. …
KATRA :for the 3-day intensified Pulse Polio Immunization programme, 42 booths were setup in Health Block Katra of district Reasi which also includes four booths setup on the track of Mata Vaishno Devi at different locations for the facilities of visiting pilgrims. On these booths about 6700 children were administered …
Srinagar: Even as Kashmir loses thousands of hectares of its agricultural land to urbanisation, there is, yet, a silver lining. Paddy production has hit a record-breaking high due to the use of high-quality seeds and fertilisers. For the first time, paddy production has gone beyond five lakh tonnes, a record …
RAJOURI, Dec 17: District Development Commissioner, (DDC) Rajouri, Sheikh Rafiq Ahmed inaugurated a one day training cum awareness camp on National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) organized by Department of Rural Development, Rajouri in the conference hall of PWD Dak Bungalow. The camp was organized with the objective of making …
KT NEWS SERVICE JAMMU, Dec 7: State Resource Centre (SRC), University of Kashmir conducted a series of programmes about Total Literacy Campaign (TLC) and Post Literacy Programme (PLP) in different districts of Jammu province. The centre also conducted public awareness literacy rally at Surankote, Poonch in which about 500 to …
This resettlement plan is prepared to deal with impacts of land acquisition and resettlement issues resulting from the rehabilitation of the road sub-project. The plan provides an analysis of the impacts, identifies the nature and types of losses, and establishes and entitlement matrix as a guide to payments for compensation …
A requiem to a lost way of life in the Kashmir valley It was another day of my childhood. I ran out of the door of our compound into what seemed like a never-ending grassland. I
Srinagar received close to six-inch snowfall today throwing normal life out of gear as offices and commercial establishments were closed and power supply conked out. There was hardly any traffic on the roads as snowfall continued till afternoon and conditions remained overcast and rather cold. All flights scheduled for and …
A turf-war between the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Developmental Council (Leh) and the Jammu and Kashmir government has unnecessarily delayed the work to tap the geothermal energy potential of the Changthang area in Leh district. Experts with their informed guesses have put the potential of the area
Climate change will only intensify problems in Kashmir AFTER a hard climb up the eastern flank of the Kolahoi glacier, Ghulam Jeelani, a geo-hydrologist from the University of Kashmir, catches his breath. This is the Kashmir valley
Govt agencies ignored health and hygiene issues The plight of people living in and around the Saidapora Eidgah area in the outskirts of the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir is a reflection of how the authorities treat the vital issues of health and hygiene. Bogged by the existence of …
Seeking special package for the farmers, Congress MLC and former minister Gulchain Singh Charak today appealed the state government to provide immediate compensation for the 100 percent loss of paddy crops suffered by the farmers of entire border belt including Bishnah. While addressing media here today, Charak informed that he …
SRINAGAR: Few days after prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh commissioned the state's first 450 MW Baglihar power project, Pakistan has once again objected to the construction of the power project and has said that 23,000 cusecs of water to fill Baglihar dam has reduced the flow of water in the …
PASHMINA is Kashmiri: India granted, on September 12, the Geographical Indicat-ion (GI) status to Pashmina yarn, produced in th Kashmir valley by Tahfuz (a body of all Kashmiri handicraft artisans). Islamabad filed an objection claiming that the fine wool is also produced in Pakistan. A consultative committee of the Geographical …
The Kashmir valley is all set to have a bumper crop of rice and maize and likely to achieve the target production of these principle crops during this year following the timely rainfall and use of good-quality seeds by the farmers. The rain showers witnessed by the valley on Tuesday …
SRINAGAR Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday dedicated to the people of Jammu and Kashmir its biggest power project owned by the state, called the Baglihar Hydroelectric Project. The project, inaugurated by him by pressing a remote button at Chanderkote in Ramban district, about 150 km south of here, is …
Rice culture and consumption in Kashmir has been in vogue since the drainage of water from Satisar by Kashyap Reshi. Farmers had developed sound traditional knowledge about the parameters for good rice harvest and management of blast (rai) disease. Sustained rice production by adopting organic pratices coupled with indigenous farming …
