JAMMU, Jan 5: Stressing the need for promoting the technology for harnessing solar energy in the country, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr.

JAMMU, Jan 4: Minister for Health, Horticulture & Floriculture, Sham Lal Sharma has directed the officers of Flood Control Department to take effective measures for protecting right bank of river Chenab at Akhnoor from soil erosion due to floods.

The Minister was on an extensive tour of all the flood prone areas of Akhnoor to review pace of ongoing flood protection works along the right bank of

JAMMU, Jan 4 : Highlighting the role of various Rural Development Schemes in providing much needed employment to the people, the Minister for Rural Development, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that these have the potential to change the socio-economic scenario of rural and far-flung areas.

The Minister was speaking at a high level review meeting held to overs

By Gopal Sharma

JAMMU, Dec 26: Nearly 250 brick kilns in Kathua, Jammu and Samba districts of the Jammu region are consuming more than eight thousand trucks of green felled fire wood every year as the nexus of green wood smugglers and the key officials in the Forest and Revenue departments was galore in the region.

Despite the blanket ban on the green felling by the Supreme Court of India, t

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BISHNAH, Dec 14 : Charging Omar Abdullah led coalition regime with adopting anti-farmers policies, People's Democratic Party (PDP) today vowed to expose wrong policies being pursued by the coalition Government.

Addressing a meeting of party workers at Morchapur village of Bishnah Assembly segement, PDP vice president and former Rajya Sabha member Trilok Singh Bajwa termed the present dispensati

JAMMU, Dec 14: The CII J&K State Council in collaboration with J&K State Pollution Control Board organised function on Municipal Solid Waste Management, here today.

Deputy Commissioner Sanjeev Verma was the chief guest in the inaugural session.

SHOPIAN, Dec 7: Relating climate change to the denudation of forests, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Tuesday called for all out efforts for massive afforestation, terming it significantly important for maintenance of ecology and natural beauty of the State.

"We have to rejuvenate our green wealth and retrieve degraded forests to safeguard the future of coming generations", he said and emphasi

CHANDIGARH, Dec 6: Jammu and Kashmir is all set to roll out its new Agriculture Policy to revive its world famous farm products and aggressively market them in domestic and international markets.

"We are going to announce our new Agriculture Policy in the winter session of the State Assembly," State Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir said on the sidelines of CII- organised Agrotech fair her

JAMMU, Dec 3 : Minister for Rural Development, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Ali Mohammad Sagar has said that Government contemplates to put into foolproof mechanism to check effectively conversion of agriculture land for non agriculture purposes.

The Minister was speaking at a high level meeting on the Land Use Act (LUA).