JAMMU, Feb 23: The Forest Department is looking forward to plant 3.50 lakh trees across the Jammu region as a part of its plantation drive launched in the State.

The trees would be planted in the temperate areas of the region which have been nurtured in various nurseries in controlled conditions to suit the environs and climatic conditions of these areas.

The information was given at a meeti

Kashmir valley experienced fresh spell of snowfall today. While the upper reaches received moderate to heavy snowfall, the same was light at district headquarters and towns. Srinagar was covered with thick blanket of snow during last night.

Mule dung menace to become energy source
JAMMU, Feb 10: Though it remained a menace for decades together yet several tonnes of mule dung being littered every day on 13 kilometers track of holy cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishnodevi, is shortly going to become a source of energy generation for the Shrine Board as Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy funded mule dung based bio-gas plant is comi

Jammu, Feb 1: A meeting of the Executive Committee of Channi Himmat Residents Association was held under the chairmanship of its president V.K.Grover in which situation arising out of disruption caused in anti encroachment drive of Green Belt and its restoration launched by the J&K Housing Board and various State Government authorities recently was discussed.

Union Minister for Power and senior leader of All India Congress Committee, Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that 1000-MW Thermal Power Project was coming up near Pathankot shortly and people of J&K will be benefited in big way.

Addressing a large gathering at a function organized by J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) at Muthi to commemorate the martyrdom day of Mahatma Gandhi, Mr Shinde who was

JAMMU, Jan 28: State Cabinet today accorded much needed approval to the Draft Forest Policy, which has been prepared for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir for scientific management and conservation of the forests, and approved enhancement of the water usage charges.

"The forest policy lays emphasis on reconciliation of land records of Revenue Department with Demarcation Record of Forest Depar

JAMMU, Jan 27 : Environment Committee of State Legislative Council today suggested one time subsidy for purchase of pollution control devices for installation in brick kilns to reduce pollution and minimize its impact on green environs and human life.

The Committee which met here under the chairmanship of Bashir Ahmad Magray, observed that installation of such devices was necessary to significa

Recent meeting of Persistent Organic Pollutant Review Committee (POPRC), a subsidiary body of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) was held at Geneva on 15th of October, 2010 in which the member nations especially European Union lobby strongly voiced for a global ban on the production and use of endosulfan, an organochlorine compound widely used in agriculture as an ins

Minister for Forests, Ecology and Environment, Mian Altaf Ahmad had a meeting with Union Minister for Environment and Forest, Jai Ram Ramesh at New Delhi today.

In the meeting, it was informed that State Government has constituted Wullar Development Authority (WDA) for which, an amount of Rs 120 crore have been earmarked in 13th Finance Commission.

The Minister demanded an amount of Rs 100 c