Despite slight improvement in the weather conditions, snow-hit areas across Jammu and Kashmir continued to reel under severe power crisis for the third straight day today, with Internet and mobile

SRINAGAR, Dec 4 : Decades long illegal extraction by the people has posed a threat to Lidder rivulet. Lidder,is known not only for its crystal clear waters but for the quality trout present in it.

Three hundred and eighty three people have lost their lives across the state due to floods since 2009 till date.

Paper-II on Census 2011 released

SRINAGAR: As a large number of people have migrated to the urban areas during past three decades in Jammu and Kashmir, there has been sharp decline of 7 percent in rural population, according to the recently released census data.

Srinagar: Even as a majority of the population of Jammu and Kashmir resides in villages, there is an increasing trend of urbanisation in the state, according to Census- 2011.

Governor NN Vohra, who is also the Chairman of the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB), today visited the Baltal, Panjtarni and Nunwan base camps and reviewed the arrangements made for the annual Amarnath yatra,scheduled to commence on June 29.

The Governor, accompanied by Sunita Narain, member of the SASB, and RK Goyal, CEO of the board, first visited Baltal this morning and reviewed the yatra-r

JAMMU, Mar 10: While nearly 14,359 hectare of Forest land has been grabbed in the State in last over two decades, the districts of Jammu, Rajouri, Poonch in Jammu and Anantnag in Kashmir have topped in the list of Government land grabbing.

The issue was raised in the Upper House of the J&K Legislature today during Question Hour by the Congress legislator, Ravinder Sharma.

Two days after an avalanche hit Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir, killing 17 Army personnel at a military base there, three Army jawans were killed on Wednesday in a series of avalanches in Siachen Glacier in the northern part of the state.

Afsana Rashid

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