Srinagar: A willingness to learn and a passion for growing trees has made Manzoor Ahmad successfully grow oranges in his few feet of land in downtown area of Khanyar in Srinagar. After seven years of working on his project, he now has three trees laden with oranges. Most of the oranges he has been gifting […]
Srinagar: The Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences & Technology-Kashmir (SKUAST-K) has made it to the sixth rank in the list of agriculture varsities in India, leaving behind its counterpart university in Jammu region. To get to the number rank, the university needs to have uninterrupted internet facility, no student unrest, and a general atmosphere of […]
Srinagar: In 1982, the year Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology (SKUAST) was established, it had few buildings, some dozen students on its rolls, and figured at the bottom list of agriculture universities in India. Today, nearly forty years later, the university has been ranked as the sixth best state agriculture university in India, […]
Govt braces up to meet any eventuality Srinagar: The metreteorological centre Srinagar on Thursday predicted snow from Saturday evening in Kashmir and said that there will be a further fall in temperature to sub-zero degrees during morning and evenings of the day, deputy director MeT Mukhtar Ahmad told Kashmir Reader. According to him, from late […]
Duo from Kerala travels to Kashmir riding on luck and passion, and little else SRINAGAR: Most people’s ambition to travel the world dies at the time when they fail to find a way to finance it. But Nazeer Tahsin, and Vishnu, two friends from Kerala, have proved this deprecatory theory wrong. The duo in the […]
Srinagar: Pulwama has become the first district in Kashmir that can supply power at transmission level almost 40 percent more than the existing capacity. This means that if there are any power cuts in the area, the constraints are at the distribution level, not the transmission level. Power supply in Kashmir is received first by […]
More than 4 lakh visitors arrive in Valley so far Srinagar: Fears that Covid-19 will stop the flow of tourists to Kashmir Valley have not come true at all, with the number of tourist arrivals this year exceeding the estimated numbers. As per officials, more than 4 lakh visitors landed in spring, summer and autumn […]
Highest reduction over past 5 years among all states, UTs; late marriages one reason, says LD Hospital doctor Srinagar: With better health care facilities, education, awareness, and financial status, mothers in Jammu and Kashmir have dropped the level of fertility, the number of children they give birth to, to the lowest in the country. According […]
Srinagar: For a month now, residents of many downtown areas have been facing mobile internet shutdowns many times a day, causing immense troubles to those whose work depends on the internet. At least twice a day for more than 11 hours, mobile internet remains suspended, residents say. In the morning hours the first half starts […]
Srinagar: The Government of India’s initiative of electric vehicles on roads for lowering air pollution has come to a standstill in Kashmir. About 20 electric vehicles, operating since 2019, remain parked at Lal Chowk since Nov 19, when the traffic department barred them from operating on the city roads. The ambitious eco-friendly bus project was […]