Targets generation of over 8,000 MW hydropower in 12 years

This 5th June will be the 40th World Environment Day, marked by a world far removed from the hopeful, easy-on-commitment atmosphere of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in

Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah and Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah today inaugurated 18 KW Solar Power Plant at Sub-District Hospital Charar-i-Sharief.

The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has approved 69 solar power plants for the State to be installed in as many health institutions as backup power supply units. This involves an amount of Rs. 32.70 crore. The tenders for 32 such units have been finalized and for the remaining the process is going on.

Various schemes for J&K in pipeline: Farooq

SRINAGAR: Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Monday highlighted the importance of harnessing new and renewable energy potential of the State to accommodate the electricity needs in remote and far-flung areas emphasizing on installation of adequate Transmission System (TS) to extract and distribute power.

In a move to address the lack of strategic roads abutting the India-China frontier, India will bring in a legal provision to do away with self-created hurdles which are holding back progress on the

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered a probe following reports that as many as 358 children had died in Srinagar’s premier children’s hospital since January 2012. It admitted to 35 deaths having occurred in the last fortnight alone.

Chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, “The Cabinet (which met here Wednesday) has taken a serious note of the situation in G.B. Pant Hospital.” He said Sher-i-Kashmir Instit-ute of Medical Sciences director Showkat Zargar has been asked to review functioning and report back to the Cabinet in one week.

A low-intensity earthquake measuring 4.1 on Richter Scale shook some parts of Jammu and Kashmir during the wee hours of this morning.

With the state’s power deficit all set to cross a whopping Rs 2,000-crore mark till the end of the current financial year, the Centre has snubbed Jammu and Kashmir for implementing at a slow pace t

A moderate intensity earthquake jolted the Kashmir valley today.