Water Pollution

Order of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir on Dal lake pollution, 27/11/2018

Order of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir (Srinagar Bench) in the matter of Syed Iqbal Tahir Geelani Vs State of Jammu & Kashmir dated 27/11/2018.

A public interest litigation was filed in 2002 alleging largescale release of pollutants into the Dal Lake, misuse and encroachment into the lake and complete insufficiency of the administration in managing the lake.

Judgement Date: 
27/11/2018
Tags:
Lake Pollution, Dal Lake, High Court, Waste Disposal, Sewage Pollution, Jammu & Kashmir
Animal Care

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding mule dung waste management, Vaishno Devi Shrine, Jammu & Kashmir, 26/11/2018

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board Vs Gauri Maulekhi & Others dated 26/11/2018 regarding disposal of dung of mules carrying pilgrims from Katra to Bhavan.

Judgement Date: 
26/11/2018
Tags:
Mules, Religious Places, Supreme Court, Animal Dung, Animal Cruelty, Animal Care, Jammu & Kashmir
Water Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of river Basantar, District Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, 22/11/2018

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Indian Council for Enviro-Legal Action & Others Vs Jammu and Kashmir State Pollution Control Board & Others dated 22/11/2018. This application seeks direction to close down industries causing pollution, discharging effluents/waste into or near the River Basantar, District Samba, Jammu and Kashmir and operating without statutory consent.

Judgement Date: 
20/11/2018
Tags:
River Pollution, Waste Disposal, Industrial Pollution, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), Sewage Pollution, Municipal Corporations, Jammu & Kashmir
Science And Technology

GSLV-Mk3 take-off clears way for human spaceflight

India successfully launched its most powerful rocket, GSLV-Mk3, that will eventually be the vehicle to carry a rover to the moon and a human mission to space by 2022.

Publication Date: 
15/11/2018
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Space Technology, Communication, North East, Jammu & Kashmir
Forests

1000 forest trees to face axe for laying of Sgr-Leh transmission line

Hundreds of forest trees have been cut down in different forest areas of this central Kashmir district to lay 220 kV Srinagar-Leh transmission line.

Publication Date: 
13/09/2018
Greater Kashmir
Tags:
Forests, Power Transmission, Deforestation, Compensation, Jammu & Kashmir
Health

The burden of chronic respiratory diseases and their heterogeneity across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016

India has 18% of the global population and an increasing burden of chronic respiratory diseases. However, a systematic understanding of the distribution of chronic respiratory diseases and their trends over time is not readily available for all of the states of India. Our aim was to report the trends in the burden of chronic respiratory diseases and the heterogeneity in their distribution in all states of India between 1990 and 2016.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
12/09/2018
Lancet Global Health
1-12
Tags:
Respiratory Diseases, India, Air Pollution, Health Effects, Asthma, Tobacco, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Statistics, Jammu & Kashmir
Forests

Jammu and Kashmir: Forest fire takes a toll on Rajouri locals’ health

Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir): Amid the wild fire raging in the forests area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district for the past three days, Locals in are complaining of being exposed to a number of

Publication Date: 
30/05/2018
Free Press Journal
Tags:
Forest Fires, Diseases, Pollution, Forests, Jammu & Kashmir
People

SC to hear J&K plea on NGT order

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear on May 30 a plea of the Jammu and Kashmir government seeking a stay on proceedings before the National Green Tribunal that has sought a rehabilitation pla

Publication Date: 
29/05/2018
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Supreme Court, National Green Trbunal (NGT), People, Rehabilitation, Jammu & Kashmir
Wildlife

Conservation prospects of the Kashmir Red Deer (Cervus hanglu hanglu) beyond Dachigam National Park, in Jammu and Kashmir, India

India’s only extant red deer species, the Kashmir red deer, or hangul (Cervus hanglu hanglu) is restricted today to the confines of the 141 sq. km Dachigam National Park (NP) in Jammu and Kashmir, with about 200 surviving individuals. A continual population decline of hangul has necessitated the identification of relict populations and suitable habitats outside Dachigam NP, so that a meta-population approach to its conservation may be employed.

Publication Date: 
25/05/2018
Rahul Kaul, Mayukh Chatterjee, Tapajit Bhattacharya & et al
Current Science
114
10
2123-2120
Tags:
Deer, Endangered Species, Wildlife Management, Dachigam NP, Jammu & Kashmir
People

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding rehabilitation of mule operators operating between between Katra and Vaishno Devi shrine, Jammu & Kashmir, 23/05/2018

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Gauri Maulekhi Vs. State of Jammu & Kashmir & Others dated 23/05/2018 regarding finalizing and implementing the Rehabilitation Scheme for people engaged in carrying pilgrims to the Vaishno Devi shrine on horses and mules, which have now been prohibited.

Judgement Date: 
23/05/2018
Tags:
Religious Places, Animal Cruelty, Rehabilitation, National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Unemployment, Jammu & Kashmir

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