The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Scientists and experts from across the country attended a session organised at Kashmir University on Saturday to discuss strategies for development of Kashmir's Dal Lake. The meeting was attended by experts from various research organisations, faculty members of the university, scientists, members of Lakes and Water Development Authority (LAWDA), officials …
The High Court today directed all the District Magistrates to intensify the checking the sale of polythene and in the process when polythene bags are seized from the shopkeepers or the stockists, their particulars shall be submitted along with the status report so that they can be proceeded against for …
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 …
The High Court was today informed that around 130 quintals of polythene has been seized by the authorities in five months since January this year. A division bench of the High Court that heard a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking conservation of world famous Dal Lake, later asked the state …
North India continues to face an unrelenting cold wave as temperatures in most parts of the region on Sunday stayed low and water bodies in the Kashmir Valley remained frozen. It was a sunny but chilly Sunday in Delhi, with the minimum temperature taking a slight dip from the normal …
Twenty-nine people succumbed to the intense cold wave in North India on Tuesday as temperatures dropped to sub-zero levels at many places in the region. Delhiites froze under chilly winds and the biting cold with the minimum temperature plunging to 3.3 degrees Celsius. Though Tuesday’s minimum was up by almost …
The Valley is witnessing severe cold wave conditions with the temperature continuing to remain several degrees below the freezing point. In Srinagar city, the mercury fell overnight to minus 5.5°C, which is nearly three degrees below the average normal and lowest temperature of the season so far, an official of …
3 flights cancelled, train traffic disrupted JAMMU/srinagar: While the day temperature in Jammu has broken about 30 years old record by remaining nearly 11 degree Celsius below normal today, the night temperature in the winter capital has further depleted to 4.3 degree Celsius from 6 degree Celsius, just in past …
Flight cancelled, train traffic remains hit SRINAGAR/ JAMMU: There was no respite from intense cold and freezing temperature as the mercury plummeted further below the freezing point across the Kashmir today. The freezing temperature coupled with erratic power cuts has made the life difficult for the people in the Valley. …
Kashmir Valley continues to reel under intense cold wave even as fringes of Dal Lake freeze for the first time this winter North India was gripped by bone chilling cold on Thursday as temperatures nosedived across the region claiming nine more lives. Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 12.7 degrees …
The Committee on Estimates which met under the Chairmanship of MLA Handwara, Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan to take stock of the measures being taken for the protection and conservation of the world famous Dal Lake besides discussed the status of rehabilitation process being taken up in the meeting held at Banquet …
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Monday launched e-toilets that are customised to function automatically in extreme cold weather. Tailored to meet sub-zero climatic conditions of Jammu and Kashmir, two e-toilets will be installed at Affarwat and Gulmarg on experimental basis. Besides, a sewage treatment plant will be set up …
HC directs DMs to implement polythene ban in J&K.; In a significant direction aimed to restore pristine glory of world famous Dal Lake, the High Court today asked Houser Boat Owners to shift from their present position to Western shore of the Lake primarily for demonstrations purposes. After hearing day …
‘Lake receives 157 tones of phosphorous, 243 tons of inorganic nitrogen annually’ As the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) allegedly failed to ensure the complete arrest of discharge and run-off from catchments’ areas of world famous Dal Lake despite receiving hundreds of crores of rupees from Government of India …
SRINAGAR, Aug 14: The High Court today asked the state government to file response in a Public Interest Litigation on world famous Dal Lake in last 30 years. As the matter came up for hearing, a division bench of the High Court comprising Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Justice Muzaffar …
*Dal dwellers, KPs get their share JAMMU: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, in his capacity as Planning Minister, has approved four major sectors as priority areas for the year 2012-13 to utilize Rs 700 crore, which the Planning Commission of India had given to the State Government under the Prime Minister’s …
Srinagar: Above normal temperatures for the past one month in Kashmir has posed a fresh challenge for the authorities looking after the conservation of Dal Lake, the city’s major tourist destination. With the Valley getting no respite from the heat wave, the weeds have been growing in the lake at …
Even after spending over Rs 308 crore in the last six years, the cash-starved J-K government’s much talked about multi-pronged strategy for conservation of Dal Lake has led to nowhere, as there had been no exhaustive studies behind the preparation of its detailed project report (DPR). This money is apart …
SRINAGAR: The Union Minister of State for Urban Development, Dr. Saugata Roy today conducted an extensive tour of the Dal Lake and also visited golden Lake Dole Demb area to review the ongoing works. The Union Minister was briefed about the progress achieved on the conversation measures like Sewerage Treatment, …
