The man-animal conflict in the state has claimed 14 human lives and 211 persons were injured in attack by wild animals during 2014-15, highlighting the situation arising out of encroachment of fore
For two days, Makwal village and its surrounding areas, 27 km west of Jammu, were ravaged by the floodwaters after the Tawi breached its embankment and flowed into villages, mostly inhabited by poo
Massive destruction of residential structures along the Tawi, Chenab and Ujj rivers in the Jammu region has once again brought to focus illegal constructions and encroachments on the river banks by
More than 80 per cent of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits will be deprived of their voting right in the Srinagar parliamentary constituency, going to the polls tomorrow.
Flouting the Supreme Court (SC) directives and anti-pollution laws, 407 industrial units are running unauthorisedly in the state as their ‘validity of consent’ to operate has expired about a decade
Nearly 75 per cent of the Centre-sponsored drinking water schemes in J&K are still incomplete, exposing the inefficiency of the state government to spend the central funds received in the last
Though the population of Jammu city is expected to touch 19 lakh in 2021, but the state government continues to follow the J&K Development Act-1970, which has an outdated land acquisition provi
An independent audit has revealed that all the 21 hydel power projects run by the J&K State Power Development Corporation (JKSPDC) are not following the Standard Operating Manual which is neces
PHE warns defaulters; offence may invite one-year imprisonment
As the battle of Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department against illegal water connections appears to be losing steam, it has launched a media blitz warning one-year imprisonment for defaulters as per the provisions of Jammu and Kashmir Water Resources (Regulation and Management) Act, 2010.
