UDHAMPUR : Sheep Husbandry Department has recorded over 4 lakh kg mutton production in district Udhampur during first quarter of the current fiscal. To provide treatment to sheep and goat population and prevent spread of contagious and non-contagious diseases, the department has dosed over 68,000 sheep population, vaccinated 18,400 and extended dipping facility to over 30,000 besides castrating 3300 sheeps and goats.

Jammu businessmen alone sufer Rs 500 cr loss KT NEWS SERVICE JAMMU, July 9: The business community has suffered a major set back in the state due to unrest that prevailed over the issue of forest land transfer to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB). The Amarnath row has cost hundreds of crores to business community alone in both summer and winter capitals of the state during the last three weeks.

Lashing out at the former Governor Lt Gen (Retd) S K Sinha for his constant diatribe against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), senior PDP leader Tariq Hameed Qarra has accused Gen Sinha of having gone astray following his unceremonious exit from the State's gubernatorial post.

The statistics are grim. The Kashmir hangul, the only surviving subspecies of the red deer family, is slowly becoming extinct. In fact, as per the latest census report released in March, its population has come down from 228 to 160 in the last four years. This, when in the late 1940s, some 5,000 hangul, also known as Kashmir stag, roamed the Himalayan region.

About 100 protesters from various Kashmiri Pandit groups in the capital vented their ire at Union minister Saifuddin Soz's doorstep on Sunday after he reportedly refused to hear them out on the revocation of land allotment to the Amarnath shrine board.

J&K land controversy unlikely to vanish soon

Jammuites heaved a sigh of relief from the hot and humid weather after heavy rains lashed several parts of the region this morning. The rains also brought relief for curfew-hit city residents, who were facing unscheduled long power curtailments after the mother Grid Station Gladni was damaged in a fire here on Wednesday night. Heavy rains lashed almost all the parts of the region, reports here said. "The downpour in Jammu city was measured 20.5 mm in the morning," Met department said.

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere in Jammu and Kashmir government order to revoke the transfer of land to Sri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB). The bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir also declined to entertain the prayer seeking directions for the lifting of curfew in Jammu. The apex court said that it was an administrative matter and court has no voice in it. Hearing a PIL filed by Prof. Bhim Singh, Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party, the apex court, however, ordered the state government

Fresh communal violence erupted here Friday leading to imposition of curfew in entire Indore city, a day after four persons were killed in clashes during the BJP-VHP sponsored bandh against revocation of land to Amarnath shrine board. The fresh incidents of violence occurred in various areas - Jinsi, Juna Risala, Champa Bagh, Bombay Bazar and Hathipala where rioters clashed with the police and the Rapid Action Force personnel by pelting stones on them.

THE Congress high command is caught in a delicate situation on Jammu and Kashmir, where chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has launched an all-out operation to mobilise numbers to survive the July 7 trust-vote after the PDP pull-out. Apprehensive about Mr Azad poaching on a section of its MLAs, the PDP leadership has registered a strong protest, cautioning the party high command that any misadventure by the chief minister months ahead of the assembly poll could trigger a crisis in the sensitive border state.