State government has submitted a proposal to the central government to bring widows and children of deceased militants under the preview of Rehabilitation Council in the state and sought a package Rs.500 crore for their rehabilitation.

KUPWARA: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti has asked the National Conference (NC) Patron Dr Farooq Abdullah to make clear to the people why he illogically bartered the state's water resources with the Center for a worthless 12 percent royalty in 2000.

On the occasion of World Earth Day, a national environment awareness campaign on the theme of "Biodiversity Conservation" was launched on Tuesday. Former principal chief conservator, forests, and Chairman, environment impact assessment authority, P.P. Sharma, presided over the function. The function was organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature India. Chairperson V.P. Sharma gave a brief description of the planet Earth. Two books, one of which was in Hindi, entitled "Geet Paryavaran Ke" by O.P. Sharma were released. Prof K.C. Bhagat from SKUASTT gave a lecture on biodiversity conservation.

After Pakistan's move to put up a 969 MW hydro power project across the Jhelum, the Central government has decided to revive the almost defunct 18-year-old 330 MW Kishen Ganga hydro power project on the same river in the Kashmir valley.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh greeting the winners of the Award for Excellence in Public Administration on Civil Services Day 2008 at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Monday. NEW DELHI: A team of seven IAS and other officials who showed "extraordinary performance' in carrying out relief and rehabilitation work during the devastating 2005 earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir was among those honoured with the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration here on Monday.

The new National Mineral Policy (NMP) which seeks to ensure assured right in mineral concessions, envisages foreign direct investment of $2.5 billion annually. "FDI of about $2.5 billion per annum is expected in the mining sector from the fifth year of implementation of the new NMP,' mines minister Sis Ram Ola said.

MARHATGAM (HANDWARA):The farmers of this village, 11 kilometers from Handwara town, and many other villages on Nowgam road that leads to the Line of Control have been asked by army not to cultivate maize crop on grounds that militants are hiding in the crop and attacking the convoys. However, army said the farmers can cultivate alternate crop in which militants can not hide. It termed it a step to save the convoy from militant attacks.

The October 8, 2005 earthquake wrecked havoc on life and property in the bordering area of Karnah. Three years after the natural disaster hit Karnah villages, at least 99 children rendered orphans are still awaiting cash relief compensation announced by the union government under National Calamity Scheme for Victims (NCSV) scheme. To rehabilitate the victimised children and enable them to continue with their education, the union government under the scheme had announced a cash relief of Rs five lakh each in favour of the children whose parents died in the quake and

POWERGRID, the Central Transmission Utility (CTU) of the country, is engaged in Construction and Operation & Maintenance of inter-State transmission system and operation of National & Regional Power Grids. Over a period of 16 years, POWERGRID has emerged as one of the largest and best managed transmission utilities in the world and is playing a strategic role in Indian Power Sector.

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Government of India to workout a compensatory mechanism for the huge recurring losses being suffered by Jammu & Kashmir because of the discriminatory Indus Water Treaty (IWT) and arbitrary exploitation of the State's water resources by the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) for power generation.