Overflowing litter affecting health of residents as well as stray cattle

Open containers overflowing with garbage continue to affect the health of residents as well as stray cattle in the city. The Municipal Corporation (MC) has installed hundreds of garbage containers in various parts of the city, but regular disposal of the garbage is still not being done. The overflowing garbage containers have offer food for the stray cattle, which affects their health as the garbage contains polythene and other harmful things.

Political parties and candidates in various constituencies of the state have been told to desist from using plastic or polythene as publicity material.

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

The Farming System Research (FSR) Centre, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences (SKUAST)-Jammu, organised a day-long field training programme in "Integrated farming system (IFS)" at th

People of Ghat village and adjoining areas in Doda district are without drinking water for the past 10 days. The village has a population of around 2,000.

The threat of landslides is looming large over a dozen houses at Sunirgund Malangpora in the Awantipora area of Pulwama district as the Karewa land (elevated table land) in their village has been sliding after heavy snowfall and rain from the last few months.

Villagers said even though they had sent many representations to Pulwama Deputy Commissioner Manzoor Ahmad lone but all were ignored. They alleged he was acting as a spectator.

Farmers in Kashmir have gone hi-tech, using precision farming methods to boost the production of vegetables, and poly houses to facilitate early sapling production leading to a surge in the sale of

JAMMU, Mar 24: Two day national conference on “Environmental Issues, Concerns and Solutions” organized by Department of Environmental Sciences commenced today at General Rajinder Singh auditorium,

The state Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has cleared construction of 14-kilometer long tunnel at Zojilla pass to ensure all-weather connectivity between Kashmir and Ladakh.

Observing it a brazen violation of its directions, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has asked Pollution Control Board as to how it allowed operations of hotels without STPs or non-functional STPs i