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![]() Dr Raja Muzaffar BhatGreater Kashmir |
A few years ago, I stood on a patch of road in Chitroo Dangerpora village, Budgam, watching nothing happen. The road was supposed to be widened and...
The numbers tell a grim story. Kashmir has lost 15% of its forest cover since 1990. Temperatures are rising twice as fast as the global average....
When a tragedy strikes Kashmir, there’s always a group of people ready to profit from the pain. I’ve seen it before. During the Amarnath...
River Jhelum, Kashmir’s main waterway, is slowly choking under the weight of untreated sewage and official apathy. Despite repeated warnings, the...
J&K Forest Minister Javed Ahmad Rana recently told the Assembly that as many as 1,243 forest fires were reported in Jammu and Kashmir in the 2024-25...
We recently commemorated World Consumer Rights Day, observed every year on March 15. This day serves as a reminder of the importance of consumer...
It was shocking for me when I learned that Justice (Retired) Hasnain Masoodi, the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Pampore, is advocating...
The Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Mr. Surinder Chowdhary, who also holds the portfolio of the Mining Department, informed the Legislative...
In many countries, wetlands were regarded as wastelands in the past. Even in developed nations, the authorities were hardly concerned about wetlands....
The valley of Kashmir is an oval-shaped basin with a small plain area of approximately 160 x 60 km. The valley has large tracts of plateaus, locally...
The Jammu & Kashmir’s much-appreciated health insurance scheme (Golden Card), launched in 2020, is losing its sheen day by day. Initially, there was...
I remember the late former Union Finance and Law Minister Arun Jaitley stressing the importance of drawing a line between the judiciary and the...
Finally, Farooq Ahmad Mir, an unsung hero of Kashmir, has been conferred with the Padma Shri award for his work in the promotion of Kani-shawl at both...
Finally, the RTI has gone online in Jammu & Kashmir. As campaigners for the Right to Information Act (RTI), it has been our long-pending demand. My...
For more than eight years, I have been trying my best to make our government understand the importance of including snow clearance work under the...
On the early morning of December 26th 2024 the huge JCB and L&T Cranes were taken out all of a sudden from Sukhnag river. The operators started...
The Commissioner of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC), in response to the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) notice, submitted a report recently...
Pulwama and Budgam Kareawas were famous for growing almonds, saffron and apples in the past. These kareawas were bulldozed during laying of...
On November 2nd 2022, the Deputy Commissioner Budgam vide his official communication number DDCB/ Permission / 11140 -41 gave his endorsement for...
The Deputy Commissioner Shopian Mohammad Shahid Saleem, who is also the District Magistrate of the district, with an aim of safeguarding Rambiara...
The residents of Jammu & Kashmir were eagerly waiting for December 10th 2024 to see RTI go online. Once again the Government couldn’t fulfil their...
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways -MoRTH is planning to build a highway from Rajouri to Baramulla that will pass through Poonch,...
The residents of Jammu & Kashmir will finally be able to seek information under the Right to Information Act (RTI) in Online mode. For the...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Govt of India has categorized farmers into different groups like large, medium, semi medium, small...
Last year a news report was published in the Financial Express which said that it took 15 years for JCB India to sell 50,000 excavators in the...
After several years of waiting, citizens can now avail the benefits of seeking information under the Right to Information Act (RTI) through a...
I have been following the water bodies’ restoration work taken up by Manzoor Ahmad Wangnoo and his team Nigeen Lake Conservation Organisation-NLCO...
A recently organised event in the Government Degree College, Shopian is being severely criticized in social circles of Kashmir. The social media...
It is almost a month now since Omar Abdullah took oath as Chief Minister of the Union Territory of J&K. In the first cabinet meeting headed by...
The J&K Legislative Assembly a few days back passed a resolution seeking the restoration of the special status amid ruckus created by the Bharatiya...