toxicity unleashed: In a controversial move, the EU has legalised the herbicide paraquat even as the bloc's own risk classification and labelling lists the chemical as acutely toxic. The US, too, has

Project launched in J&K

J&K halts export of willow clefts used for making cricket bats

As far as food is concerned, Kashmiris share a strong partiality to their meat and fish. But every time a Kashmiri eats one rupee worth non-vegetarian food, the state economy loses .75 rupee.

status: Five per cent of the state's forests are degrading every year potential: Regeneration of the degraded forests can create 120 million humandays of employment strategy: Open up the

Kashmir s economy is nothing but a sensitive and organised use of its ecology. After 15 years of living under the shadow of the gun, finally, when hope is making a comeback in the state, Kashmir will have to turn to its immense environmental resources to