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Anti-encroachment drive in Kashmir ignores government intrusions
The authorities target encroachments on the Jhelum’s floodplains, ignoring their own buildings or permits to mine the riverbed
Posted 28 Aug 2020 in Articles -
Kashmir now hotspot of illegal riverbed mining
Going against its own orders, the government in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered the fast-tracking of environmental clearances despite manifest evidence of illegal sand mining
Posted 03 Aug 2020 in Articles -
Cut down poplar trees in Kashmir to check Covid-19 spread, orders government
Authorities say flowering trees will worsen respiratory allergies and therefore the pandemic, but there’s no evidence of this
Posted 09 Apr 2020 in Articles -
Report to National Green Tribunal raises spirits in Kashmir
Authorities promise to restore and preserve wetland
Posted 23 Dec 2019 in Articles&migratet -
Thank the ex-smugglers, and the army
After 50 years, the Indian Army stopped using the Tosamaidan highland meadow in Kashmir as an artillery range and tourists moved in last month, following a sustained campaign by timber smugglers who wanted to turn tour guides
Posted 21 Jun 2016 in Articles -
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The disappearing water bodies of Kashmir
Half of the water bodies in and around Srinagar have disappeared over the last century under the pressure of rapid, and badly managed, urbanisation
Posted 20 Oct 2015 in Articles -
Kashmir red deer could be extinct soon
The Kashmir stag, known as hangul, faces being wiped out in the Kashmir Himalayas because of diminishing habitat, predators and a skewed male-female ratio
Posted 21 Sep 2015 in Articles -
Disaster in conflict zone, conflict over disaster
The September 2014 floods in Jammu and Kashmir exposed the special problems of disaster relief in a conflict zone
Posted 08 Sep 2015 in Blogs -
Constant rain brings misery to Kashmir
As the cycle of rain-landslide-flood intensifies in Kashmir, people die, roads crumble, tourists stay away, the economy takes a hit and experts wonder about the change
Posted 13 Aug 2015 in Articles -
Kashmir flood forces people to insure homes
But the few apple orchard owners who have tried to insure their crops have been deterred by red tape
Posted 23 Jun 2015 in Articles