Uri villagers seek restoration of road link

BARAMULLA: The residents of Churanda and Batgran in Uri have demanded immediate restoration of the road connecting them to Tehsil Headquaters Uri. The residents said that this 12 km vital link that was laid under PMGSY has been blocked for more than 20 days now after a landslide trigged by rains left the link blocked […]

Srinagar witnesses coldest night of season, shivers at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius

Srinagar: The fringes of the famous Dal Lake froze on Sunday as the mercury continued its freefall in Srinagar which experienced the coldest night of the season at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius, the MET Office said. The minimum temperature across the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh Union Territory stayed several degrees below the freezing point, intensifying […]

Saudi plans OIC foreign ministers’ meeting on Kashmir

Islamabad: Saudi Arabia plans to convene a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Kashmir, in an apparent move by Riyadh to please Pakistan which skipped a recent summit of Muslim nations in Malaysia seen by Riyadh as an attempt to create a new bloc to replace the dysfunctional OIC […]

Himayat programme making JK youth self-reliant: Modi

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday exhorting people to become self-reliant and live their lives with dignity, he also cited the example of one such initiative – Himayat Programme’ of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh. “The ‘Himayat Programme’ is actually associated with skill development and employment. In this programme, teenagers and youth from 15 to […]

Three dead in separate accidents on Srinagar–Jammu highway

Banihal/Jammu: Three persons were killed on Sunday in two separate accidents on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway in Ramban district, police said. While two persons died when a load carrier skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge near Sherbibi, an earthmover operator lost his life when he got hit by a boulder near […]

1,300 truckloads of illegally extracted sand, gravel seized in Kupwara

Baramulla: The authorities have seized large quantity of illegally extracted gravel and sand from Mawar Nallah that flows through Kupwara District,besides seizing several vehicles used for ferrying this material. About 1,300 truckloads of these illegally piled sand and gravel has been seized by Department of Geology and Mining after acting against 16 offenders involved in […]

To access internet people travel 100 km to Banihal

BANIHAL: A single internet café in Banihal, some 100-kms away from the Srinagar, is offering space to people living life without internet for more than five months. Located amid the mountains of Pir Panchal Banihal is now easily accessed from valley by a railway line. A market that has sprung in Nagbal area, with an […]

Surviving the Water Crisis-III

RAO FARMAN ALI Tragically, water flow to all the rivers in Jammu and Kashmir is decreasing. The perpetual snow line in Jammu and Kashmir reached 16,000 feet from 13,000 feet in the last several decades, which is happening at an alarming rate. Although a combination of factors are responsible like, global warming, shrinking forest cover […]