SRINAGAR, July 27: A nine member Pakistani delegation is reaching here tomorrow to visit Baglihar power project which is being built by India on River Chenab in Jammu region. The delegation held a round of talks in Delhi earlier this week.
Chief secretary S S Kapur will host lunch for the delegation.

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URI, July 24: Three years down the line since the killer quake hit Uri and its
adjacent villages almost 75 percent people face gastroenteritis or psychiatric
problems. After visiting several villages of Uri different people narrated different
tales. In some cases either people face gastroenteritis or psychiatric problems.
But overall almost 85 percent youngsters are caught up.

While talking to The Kashmir times Shahzad of Salamabad said, "I feel as these

JAMMU, July 23: An awareness programme cum workshop was organized by J&K Khadi and Village Industries Board at Kanipora, Kulgam to create awareness amongst the rural entrepreneurs about different schemes being implemented by the board.

To promote Horticulture in Ramban district having congenial agro-climate conditions for fruit cultivation, Director Horticulture, Jammu, J.L Sharma took an emergency meeting of all the officers and employees of the district at Ramban here, today.

Vikas Sharma / Ludhiana July 21, 2008, 0:24 IST

The lab will provide a push to textile units in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir as they will not have to depend on faraway facilties for reports.

The in-principle nod by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) to the proposal for setting up a textile testing laboratory in Ludhiana has pleased the members of the Textile Professional's Association (TPA).

The opening of laboratory will benefit more than 1,000 textile units.

BY YUSUF JAMEEL Srinagar,July 16: A shutdown was observed in Jammu and some other towns in the region on Wednesday as part of a renewed agitation seeking restoration of about 40 hectares of forestland in Singh range near here to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB). During the strike, slogan-chanting crowds held protest demonstrations along the streets of the winter capital and elsewhere.

The ice form of lord Shiva, Shivalingam, has completely melted away in Amarnath, much to the huge disappointment of thousands of devotees and many more who are yet to come. An Amarnath Shrine Board official said the holy icicle had been receding day by day and disappeared today. Reports from the holy cave say that some pilgrims were agitated over the disappearance of the lingam and blamed ill-management on the part of board for its now almost annual disappearance.

The Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation, an organisation working for tribes and nomadic communities, has launched a fourfold programme to spread awareness among these groups regarding deadly diseases and sexually transmitted infections.

Though the tribal Gujjars constitute 20 to 25 per cent population of the state, they have negligible access to modern health-care facilities, said Dr Javaid Rahi, national secretary of the Tribal Foundation.

It will be in their mother tongue; folk media to be employed Jammu: The nomadic tribes of far-flung picturesque Himalayan range of Jammu and Kashmir are the focus of an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign. The tribes are being imparted knowledge about the ways and means to prevent the dreaded disease. The Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation has launched a fourfold programme throughout the State with special focus on the tribes of Gujjars and Bakerwals. This was in view of lack of knowledge among people about deadly diseases and sexually transmitted infections.