Traders, Transporters protest to press for permission to cabs in City

Traders, Transporters protest to press for permission to cabs in City

SRINAGAR: All Traders Transporters Joint Coordination Committee (ATTJJC) Kashmir on Thursday held a massive demonstration here in Srinagar demanding allow the cab services towards Batamaloo and other city parts of Srinagar. The protesting trades from the Batamaloo area assembled here in at Old Bus Stand Batamaloo chanting slogans “We want Justice,” and ” Allow the […]

Payback time for BSNL as Kashmiris rush to restore landlines, clear dues

Payback time for BSNL as Kashmiris rush to restore landlines, clear dues

The death of Kashmir’s popular pro-freedom leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has worked well for the state-owned BSNL with people rushing to clear their pending dues. Only BSNL mobile phones and landlines were operational amid the ongoing two-day communications blackout in the Valley aimed to prevent protests or gathering of people for his funeral. For […]

Smart City plan to lay 4.58-km cycle track runs into Jal Shakti hurdle

Smart City plan to lay 4.58-km cycle track runs into Jal Shakti hurdle

Srinagar: A Srinagar Smart City project to lay a cycle track along the capital’s North-South Corridor has hit a bump after the Jal Shakti Department raised a red flag, withdrawing its NOC (no-objection certificate) for the project, though Srinagar Smart City Limited (SSCL) officials are hopeful of taking forward their project and completing its first […]

Bang in the Middle: Construction of the ZojiLa Tunnel

Bang in the Middle: Construction of the ZojiLa Tunnel

Called an ‘adit’ in tunnelling parlance, a horse-shoe shaped excavation in the middle will open up two passages in opposite directions The 14.2-km-long tunnel is to be dug 700 metres below the surface. The New Austrian Tunnelling Method for constructing the tunnel. Blasting by explosives inside the tunnel to carve out a horse shoe-shaped bi-direction […]

KR Special on World Veterinary Day: When India refused to accept discovery of a lethal virus in Kashmir

KR Special on World Veterinary Day: When India refused to accept discovery of a lethal virus in Kashmir

SRINAGAR: While confusion, and politics, prevails over the source of the novel coronavirus, 18 years ago a veterinary researcher here had to battle hard with the authorities to make them accept that a new virus had entered India and was killing bovine animals. Malignant Catarrhal Fever (MCF), a serious, often fatal disease that still affects […]