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ENRIRONMENT

For god green earth don’t let the Dal Lake be only on the postcard soon, writes Tanvir Sadiq

I don’t know how it is with the youth of my age in the rest of the World. I think it is a universal phenomenon that when you start growing up, looking at something all the time, it becomes a part of that process of growth. Then at one stage you start identifying yourself with it as if it were a part More
Guarding the green wealth

AGRIULTURE AND BIODIVERSITY

Dr. M.Hussain Shah writes about the current agricultural scenario in Jammu & Kashmir

The state has a geographical area of 24.16 lakh hectares with 22 districts, 82 tehsils, 142     community blocks, 4136 panchayats and 6652 villages with a population of 101.3 lakh, of which 76.27 lakh live in rural areas (75.19%) with a literacy rate of 55.5% only. Out of the total More
They want?

KASHMIR

Kashmiri psyche is too complicated a thing to understand, writes Amit Kushari

Quite often I have wondered as to why Kashmiri Muslims cannot identify themselves with India. I have posed this question to a number of Kashmiris but so far could not get a satisfactory answer. Some of them told me that when they were children their parents and grandparents had hammered it into their More
  • Kashmir

Court sentences youth to 7-yrs rigorous imprisonment

GANDERBAL RAPE CASE

SHEIKH NAZIR

Ganderbal, June 8: A local court on Wednesday sentenced a youth for seven years rigorous imprisonment for raping a girl in 2002.   The Principal Session Judge Ganderbal, Muhammad Shafi Khan sentenced More


  • Srinagar City

No helmet, no fuel for Srinagar two-wheeler riders

Srinagar, June 8: This has been tried elsewhere in the country, but for the first time in this summer capital City of Jammu and Kashmir petrol vends would not sell fuel to two-wheeler riders found not More



  • Jammu

CM’s statement on yatra evokes sharp reaction

Jammu, June 8: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s statement that the government would not allow Amarnath pilgrimage before June 29 has evoked sharp reaction from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Vishwa More


  • Briefs

Mani Shankar Aiyer to address program on Panchyat Raj

Srinagar, June 8: The JK Rural Development Foundation in collaboration with the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology Kashmir (SKUAST-K) is organizing a special program on "The More


  • Business

Govt to encourage local, outside investment in food processing in JK

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 8: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Wednesday said the government would encourage local as well as outside investment to establish food processing and other horticulture produce processing More


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