Shopian: A 21-year-old computer engineering student from Keegam village of Shopian has taken a pledge to save his area from the consumption and trade of cannabis. What he does is that he takes a bush cutter every day and starts removing cannabis plants on the waste land around orchards and village streets. Inam ul Haq […]
Shopian: After extinction of the local Schizothorax fishes due to mining of minerals in the Rambiara river and use of chemical substances to catch and kill fish, the fisheries department has now put about 60,000 trout fingerlings in the Rambiara, in an area that is far from human habitation. However, the authorities have excluded the […]
Shopian: A vital lift irrigation scheme at Moshwara is lying dysfunctional even after two years of its completion, while hundreds of kanals of fertile kareva horticultural land has dried due to the lack of irrigation facilities, ruining the farmers of half a dozen villages in the area. The lift irrigation scheme, according to locals, was […]
SHOPIAN: With locals fed up of fertilisers and insecticides used to grow the vegetables they consume, organic farming is taking roots in Shopian’s Safnagri village where over 400 kanals of land have been so far brought under cultivation of vegetables through organic methods. A farmer from Safnagri village told Kashmir Reader that almost all the […]
Shopian: Not only the Covid-19 pandemic, this year Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), caused by a virus in cattle and sometimes in goats, has killed 642 domestic animals so far, but no vaccines have still been sent to Kashmir against it. The disease is both treatable and preventable. The government’s Animal Husbandry department used to […]
Shopian: The tourist park at Padpawan area on Mughal Road which was developed some three years ago by utilising a large chunk of forest land is now filled with plastic bags, food wastes, and dirt. The authorities seem to be not bothered about keeping the place clean and saving the forest area from pollution. Yasir […]
SHOPIAN: Pictures and videos on social media this Eid provided a glimpse of the new trend of invading forest areas and meadows in Kashmir in the name of “off-roading”. Though it is an amusement that has been going on for some years now, the forest department is yet to take any action, which is what […]
Shopian: Amid repeated rain showers since Monday morning and humid temperatures, orchardists are apprehensive about breakout of Alterneria in fruit trees, particularly apple, but experts warn against use of any fungicide after the rains. Horticulture experts say that the incubation period of Alterneria is not more than three days and if the disease occurs, it […]
Shopian: Two militants including top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander Ishfaq Dar, who was active since October 2017 in the area, were killed in an encounter at Cheki Seediq Khan village of Shopian on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. A cordon and search operation in the village was launched by a joint team of government forces […]
Forces ask trapped militants to surrender Shopian: A gunfight between militants and government forces erupted in Cheki Seediq Khan village in Nagisharan area of Shopian after an intense cordon and search operation was carried out in the village by a joint team of government forces on Sunday. The anti-militancy operation, according to police sources, was […]