Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
The National Hydro-electric Power Corporation (NHPC) said today that 330 MW Kishanganga hydropower project in Gurez area of Bandipora district over river Kishanganga in the Kashmir valley has been fully completed. The project is scheduled to be formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Jammu and …
NEW DELHI: State-run power equipment maker Bhel today said it has commissioned first unit of 110 MW of the Kishanganga hydro-electric project (HEP) of NHPC in Jammu and Kashmir. Located on the river Kishanganga, a tributary of the Jhelum in Bandipora district, all the three units of the 340 MW …
All is not well with Wular Lake in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district, one of the largest fresh water lakes in Asia, which has been identified as one of the 26 Ramsar sites in the country. Over the past many decades, it has suffered heavily due to siltation, conversion of 40 …
Even when Srinagar hogged all the limelight post the September 2014 devastating floods in Jammu and Kashmir, areas such as Gund-i-Jehangir in remote Bandipora district, north-west of Srinagar near the Wular Lake, were neglected by media, and to some extent, even by the administration. Media, local, national or international, too …
Varsity researcher warned about catastrophe in 2010 “It was a natural catastrophe which could not have been prevented. If the government had vision, the flood on September 7, which inundated Srinagar, could have been managed better,” said Dr Shakil Romshoo, head of the Earth Sciences Department at the University of …
JAMMU, Feb 19: The draft Srinagar Master Plan was put in the public domain once, but was withdrawn due to the fact that the required notification of the Government was pending which is pre-requisite as per the J&K; Development Act, 1970 and a private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 …
Several hilly areas cut off from the rest of the States; communication network down; more rain, snow likely Northern India was fully in the grip of cold weather conditions on Sunday with widespread snowfall in the hilly areas even as the winter claimed its first casualties in Jammu and Kashmir …
