Komal Amit Gera / New Delhi/ Chandigarh April 20, 2009, 0:05 IST

Pesticides manufacturer Insecticides (India) Limited would commission its new plant at Udhampur near Jammu by August this year. The facility is coming up at an investment of Rs 5 crore.

Parliamentary Kashmir Committee has termed the Indian attitude over water and stopping Pakistan's water by constructing dams in the Occupied Kashmir as high-handed, inhuman and conspiratorial. Kashmir Committee met here on Friday.

Srinagar: Vice-Chancellor, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Kashmir, Anwar Alam has urged the scientific community to put in strenuous efforts to address emerging challenges in agriculture and allied sectors.

Udhampur: With resentment brewing among residents of Doda and Kishtwar districts over not getting benefits from hydel projects functioning in their areas, the PDP has stepped up its campaign in this connection.

Quiet flows the Tawi, ignored and much abused by city residents.

Untouched by the humdrum of the 15th Lok Sabha elections, the river, where folklore says goats and tigers drank water together from it, is one of the most polluted water bodies now.

Srinagar: Seven soldiers were buried alive under a snow avalanche that hit an Army post in the Shamshbari range of forests in Kupwara district during the intervening night of April 13 and 14.

High court shuts down houseboats on Dal lake Come summer, tourists visiting Srinagar may not be able to rent a houseboat on the famous Dal lake. The Jammu and Kashmir high court, on February 25, ordered the government to close down all houseboats. The owners will be allowed to resume operations if they instal sewage disposal units in the houseboats. Dal lake has about 1,000 houseboats and in

The large quantity of sewage that flows into Dal lake from Srinagar requires two additional sewage treatment plants (STPs). Current STPs are working at 50-60 per cent capacity, according to data. All households must be connected to sewage systems which will transport the sewage to the treatment plants. Decentralized technologies, like the STUs, can help treat sewage directly discharged

As many as 27 cases of communicable disease have been reported in Arai area of Mandi tehsil in Poonch district.

Kotranka (Rajouri): Forget bigger issues, all this backward belt wants is some food in the ration depots and a bit of clean drinking water.