Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Factual note filed by the District Mineral Officer, Baramulla in response to News article published in Village Square website dated 20.08.2023 titled, “Gypsum Jam: Rampant mining troubles Kashmir villagers” (O.A. NO. 538/2023). After the establishment of the reserves of mineral gypsum to the tune of about 100 million tonnes in …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raja Muzzaffar Bhat Vs U.T. of Jammu & Kashmir dated 08/07/2020 regarding dumping of municipal solid waste in Wular lake around Ningli Tarzoo in Baramulla District in J&K. The lake in question is a wetland and a Ramsar site and …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Raja Muzzaffar Bhat Vs U.T. of Jammu & Kashmir dated 08/07/2020. Grievance in the application was that there was dumping of municipal solid waste in Wullar lake around Ningli Tarzoo in Baramulla district in Jammu & Kashmir. The lake in …
More than three dozen persons have been tested positive for Hepatitis A in Dangiwachi area and its adjoining villages of Rafiabad in Northern Kashmir’s district of Baramulla. The Health Officials told Excelsior that the first case of hepatitis came forth on September 10 when medicos’ from Sopore hospital informed them …
Even after the catastrophic floods witnessed by the state, 26 projects have been awarded Forest Clearances (FC) by the state forest department. While 25 projects were granted forest approvals and 142.54 ha forest land cleared in 2014, as many as 23 projects have been awarded clearances in the first three …
At least 150 villages with a population of nearly 2.55 lakh people have been hit hard by floods in Bandipore, Baramulla and Kupwara districts of north Kashmir. While three persons have died in Kupwara, over 55,000 have been evacuated from these three districts. In the worst-affected Bandipore district, over two …
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 …
The election mood is palpable in this village, 14 km from Baramulla town of north Kashmir. Posters of Muzaffar Hussain Beigh stand out on the rustic walls of Chandoosa, which is also the native village of the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the Baramulla constituency. The parliamentary elections in Kashmir …
JAMMU, Feb 19: The draft Srinagar Master Plan was put in the public domain once, but was withdrawn due to the fact that the required notification of the Government was pending which is pre-requisite as per the J&K; Development Act, 1970 and a private consultancy Sai Consultants has been hired …
The House Committee of Legislative Assembly constituted to ascertain the factual position regarding the illegal encroachment of wet lands and conversion for residential purposes in Srinagar, Baramulla and Bandipora today recommended the Government to frame a demarcation policy for wetlands and rakh lands of the Valley to protect these against …
High Court today asked the Government to file status report about the creation of 225 posts for closure of Watershed Development project to make functional the Wullar Conservation Management Authority. A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice M M Kumar and Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur, hearing a Public Interest Litigation on …
240-MW project on Jhelum to provide 12% free electricity to state The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has added another feather to its cap as the Uri-II hydroelectric project is ready for use and will be commissioned within a couple of months. The testing and checking of the power project …
Wants Pollution Control Board to crack down on defaulters Taking note of the fact that hotels at the famous tourist resort Gulmarg are running without sewage treatment plants (STPs), the High Court has said it is “amazed” by the non-compliance with the Pollution Control Board (PCB) rules in this regard. …
Has the regional displacement widened in the post-reform period? This study attempts to probe into this by analysing growth rates of aggregate and sectoral domestic product of major states in the pre (1980s) and post-reform (1990s) decades. Our results indicate that while the growth rate of gross domestic product has …
The Centre had announced 17 years ago that people of Kashmir would be provided a cheap and easy mode of transport to Jammu, but the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link is still nowhere near completion. Originally sanctioned from the Consolidated Fund of India and estimated to cost Rs 3,077 crore, the link …
Keeping in view the seismic vulnerability of Kashmir, the High Court has asked the government to establish an “effective disaster management committee”. The direction came in after a division bench of the court comprising Justices Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Muzaffar Hussain Attar disposed off a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed …
Srinagar witnesses coldest day of the season Even as the Kashmir valley continues to reel under severe cold, the government today sounded an avalanche warning following last week’s snowfall. “On the basis of information received from the Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE), a medium avalanche alert has been issued …
Pakistan has reportedly failed to offer comments on additional technical data on the controversial 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric project provided by India on the instruction of International Court in The Hague (Holland). India is working day and night on the construction of Kishanganga project and plans to complete the project …
India can go ahead with work on other components of dam: Court of Arbitration In a setback to India in its dispute with Pakistan over the Kishenganga project in Jammu and Kashmir, the Court of Arbitration has restrained New Delhi from undertaking any permanent dam works on or above the …
Srinagar: Even as a majority of the population of Jammu and Kashmir resides in villages, there is an increasing trend of urbanisation in the state, according to Census- 2011. The Director, Census Operations, Farooq Ahmad Factoo, released the details of the urban-rural population of the state here today. As per …
