Jammu & Kashmir

Industry

Addressing issues related to nationalism and identity

Ecological Nationalisms: Nation, Livelihoods and Identities in South Asia

Publication Date:

29/11/2006

Author(s): Nitin SethI

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Deforestation, Chipko Movement, Supreme Court, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

Climate Change

Why we should worry

From atop the 13,600-ft high windswept crest of a steep, serrated ridge, the Samudra Tapu glacier is a giant blanket of ice and snow, covering the bowl-shaped valley between jagged Himalayan peaks

Publication Date:

06/11/2006

Author(s): Ramesh Vinayak

Source: India Today (New Delhi)

Tags:

Glaciers, Himalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Glacial Melt, Hydroelectricity, Food Crops, Global Warming, Remote Sensing, TERI, IPCC, Climate Impacts, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Arunachal, Sikkim, Climate Change, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Jammu & Kashmir

India

Bad water for Srinagar's upmarket areas

all summer, tankers supply water to upmarket Srinagar, but they don't meet safety norms. They are filled at Iqbal Park filling station with the help of pressure filters, which don't meet norms set by

Publication Date:

29/09/2006

Author(s): Jehangir Rashid

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Water Quality, Drinking Water, Urban Water Supply, India, Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar (D)

Agriculture

Locust menace worsens in Ladakh

The people of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, are grappling with the menace of locusts, the migratory grasshoppers. Experts suspect that the pests, Locusta migratoria, have migrated from neighbouring

Publication Date:

29/09/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20060930

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Pesticides, Pest Control, Climate Change, Global Warming, Birds, Insects, China, India, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh

India

Dam deferred

For the second time, Pakistan has put off the inauguration of the controversial us $6.5 billion Diamer-Bhasha dam over river Indus. To be located in Diamer district of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, the

Publication Date:

14/04/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20060415

pp:

0

Tags:

Rivers, Indus, Dams, Pakistan, India, Jammu & Kashmir

Dams/ Irrigation

Two neighbours and a treaty: Baglihar project in hot waters

Pakistan has objected to several features of the Baglihar hydropower project on the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir contending that it violates the Indus Water Treaty. The World Bank, which brokered the IWT, has appointed a neutral expert to resolve the differences.

Publication Date:

18/02/2006

Author(s): Rajesh Sinha

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

41

Issue:

7

pp:

606

Tags:

Chenab, Dams/ Irrigation, Dams, Hydroelectricity, International Disputes, Water Disputes, Baglihar HP, World Bank, Pakistan, India, Jammu & Kashmir

India

In Short

baglihar collapse: A diversion tunnel at the Baglihar hydro-electric dam on the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir collapsed on June 5, 2005, due to the river's rising water level. Media reports said

Publication Date:

30/07/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20050731

pp:

0

Tags:

Chenab, Water Quality, Heavy Metals, Drinking Water, Dams, Mercury, India, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir

India