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Spraying of mineral oil in orchards: Too much concentration, mixing with pesticides not good

Shopian: Come spring, fruit growers in Kashmir begin spraying different horticulture mineral oils (HMOs) to keep diseases like San Jo’s Scale and European Red...

Dedicate success to my parents: Insha, indomitable Kashmiri orphan

Father killed in encounter, mother dead a week before, house burnt to ashes -- all this during her Board exams Shopian: Dedicating her success to...

Shopian to Bijbehara road broken up for ‘development’, then abandoned due to ‘no more funds’

Shopian: More than 80 villages, including three Tehsil headquarters, continue to face hardships due to the deplorable condition of the vital road from Shopian...

Mughal Road may be opened a month earlier, ‘by end of March’

Shopian: The Mughal Road which has been closed for vehicular movement since November last year is likely to be restored and opened for vehicular...

Bus stand in Shopian litters with tons of garbage left behind by piled snow

SHOPIAN: Bus stand Shopian has turned into a garbage dump as snow piled in its from the adjoining areas brought with it large chunks...

Two CASOs in Shopian villages, one late at night

Shopian: Government forces carried out cordon and search operations (CASOs) at two different villages since Friday night in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. According to locals...

‘Huge’ leopard rescued after two nights of tracking in the cold

Shopian: On World Wildlife Day, wildlife officials in Shopian had a reason to cheer after they successfully rescued a “huge” leopard from Heff Shirmal...

None of Shopian’s 7 tehsils have a social welfare office

Shopian: In a district with about three lakh population, none of the seven Tehsils have functional social welfare offices, even though the authorities are...

7 of family hospitalised after drinking tea

Shopian: Seven members of a family were hospitalised after they drank tea mixed with some poisonous substance at their home in Nagbal in Zawoora...

Locals outraged at new waste dumping site in Shopian

Shopian: The district administration in Shopian has shifted the municipal waste dumping site from one bank of the Rambiara rivulet to another, which is...

Anantnag Central Cooperative bank branch gutted in fire incident at Pampore, cash record safe

Pampore: The Anantnag Central Cooperative bank branch in Saffron Saffron town Pampore area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district was damaged in a fire incident...

‘Mob’ kills leopard in south Kashmir

Shopian: A leopard was killed by locals of Pathan village in south Kashmir on Wednesday after it allegedly injured a person who was taking...

Wadipora in Shopian ‘epicentre’ of bird flu, Sec 144 imposed

Shopian: Authorities have imposed restrictions under Section 144 of CrPC in Wadipora area of Shopian after test reports of dead crows found there came...

Forces lay cordon and conduct searches in Shopian village

Shopian: Government forces launched a massive cordon and search operation at Chitragam Kalan village of southern Kashmir’s Shopian on Sunday evening. Locals from the village...

Leopard rescue leaves two locals one wildlife official injured in Meminder Shopian

Shopian: A rescue effort to catch a fully grown leopard left two locals and a wildlife official injured in Shopian Meminder village of Shopian. The...

Thyroid ailments on the rise but Shopian district has no thyroid analyser in any govt hospital

Shopian: In an officially designated “hilly district” of more than three lakh inhabitants, there is no thyroid analyser in the dozen health centres and...

3 local militants killed overnight in Shopian village

One of them had joined militant ranks four days ago Shopian: After 53 days of relative calm but many cordon and search operations in the...

Nothing found after forces lay cordon in Shopian villages

Shopian: Government forces on Tuesday carried out cordon and search operations in around half a dozen villages in south Kashmir's district Shopian including at...

With no quality checks or fixed rates, middlemen milk all the profit in Shopian

Shopian: In absence of any proper government rate list, both dairy farmers and consumers in Shopian district are being cheated by middlemen who are...

Lights installed, door-to-door searches in Shopian village

Shopian: An anti-militancy operation is underway at Chitragam Kalan village in Shopian district, some 15 kilometers from the district headquarters. The cordon and search operation...

Cab drivers in Shopian running their own transport department

Shopian: In absence of buses, cab operators in Shopian are running a parallel transport department where cab fares are being fixed by the drivers...

‘Direct attack on Kashmir’s apple industry’: Import of Iranian apple resumes

Shopian: After a week's break, the illegal import of Iranian apple in Delhi's Azadpur fruit mandi has resumed, according to Kashmiri traders based in...

Half-built veterinary centre in Shopian’s Zawoora now decaying

Shopian: In a region where cattle-rearing is the main occupation, the incomplete and already decaying building of the veterinary centre at Zawoora village in...

NAFED’s managing director ensured stopping of Iranian apple import, Kashmiris say thanks

Shopian: After the intervention of the managing director of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED), the illegal import of Iranian apple to...

Sale of Iranian apple to stop, Kashmir delegation assured in Delhi

Shopian: The chairman Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) on Wednesday assured a delegation of apple growers and traders from Kashmir that they would not...

Govt orders probe in Shopian MNREGA job card scam

Shopian: The government on Wednesday ordered an enquiry to verify the reports of job card scam in Hirpora village in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. Kashmir...

Children registered as labourers in Shopian’s Hirpora to siphon MNREGA funds

‘Block-level officials’ apparently involved in scam, police register case Shopian: A scam has surfaced in far-off Hirpora village in south Kashmir’s Shopian district where minor...

At minus 15 in Shopian, colder than Nubra Valley, trees have frosted, car engines frozen

Shopian: When Muhammad Akber woke up for the dawn prayers, his mother, 90, was shivering due to the intense cold. She recently had in...

Huge stash of wild animal parts found in Anantnag village

38 bear gallbladders, 8 leopard hides, 4 musk deer pods; seizure ‘first of its kind’ in Kashmir Shopian: In the biggest-ever seizure in Kashmir of...

Abandoned horses roam about Shopian in freezing cold, eating garbage and tree bark

Shopian: Abandoned by their owners, dozens of horses are out shivering in the freezing cold in Shopian, roaming in search of food but themselves...

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