Makar Sankranti and Kite flying
By: Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit 14th January, the Makar Sankranti (Uttarayan) day heralded the change of season. An event is best experienced at the heart of all the action. Makar Sankranti or Uttarayan – the kite flying festival in Ahmedabad – the world heritage city is synonymous with kite flying. It is celebrated across the country […]
Blue Carbon Initiative Needed
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, Blue carbon is simply the term for carbon captured by the oceans, seas and littoral ecosystems. When degraded or destroyed, these ecosystems emit the carbon they’ve stored for centuries into the atmosphere and abysses and comes as a sources of greenhouse affect. Experts estimate that as important as around one billion ton of […]
Avalanche warning issued for 10 districts in JK
Srinagar, Jan 13 (PTI) Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday issued an avalanche warning for 10 districts which have witnessed moderate to heavy snowfall over the past 48 hours. The State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) issued a ‘high danger’ avalanche warning for Bandipora and Kupwara districts of north Kashmir and a ‘medium danger’ warning […]
Rajouri terror attacks probe given to NIA: Amit Shah
Jammu, Jan 13 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the probe into the recent terror attacks in Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Addressing a press conference after a day-long visit here, Shah said all terror incidents in Jammu in the past one-and-a-half […]
Parliament’s Budget Session from Jan 31
New Delhi, Jan 13 (PTI) Parliament’s Budget Session will begin from January 31 with President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. The Session will have 27 sittings and will continue till April 6 with a month-long recess to examine the budget papers, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said. […]
Former JK CMs condole Sharad Yadav’s demise
Srinagar, Jan 13 (PTI) Leaders of various political parties in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday paid tributes to late socialist leader Sharad Yadav, saying he did not compromise with his values of secularism and diversity and always stood with the weakest. The 75-year-old Yadav died on Thursday at a private hospital in Gurugram. […]
Fresh snowfall shuts national highway, flight operations affected
Srinagar, Jan 13 (PTI) Most parts of Kashmir received fresh snowfall and rains on Friday leading to the closure of the Srinagar-Jammu national highway and impacting the flight operations to and fro the Valley, officials said here. While the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir experienced moderate to heavy snowfall, many areas in the plains […]
NIA file charge-sheet against six accused in Kathua Hexacopter case
Srinagar, Jan 13: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed charge-sheet against six accused persons, one of the dead, regarding recovery of Hexacopter with UBGL rounds and Magnetic Bombs near Dhalli area in Kathua district in May last year. The charge-sheet was filed before the NIA Special Court Jammu against six accused persons under section 120B, […]
Snow, rains lash JK, MeT rules heavy snowfall in next few days
Srinagar, Jan 13: Snow and rains lashed most places of Kashmir Valley including Srinagar this morning but weather department here ruled out possibility of any major snowfall in next few days. A meteorological department official here said that snowfall started at most places including Srinagar, Ganderbal, Budgam, Bandipora, Baramulla, Kupwara, Pulwama, Shopian, Anantnag, Kulgam in […]
ATM guard found dead in Soura Srinagar
Srinagar, Jan 13: A guard at an ATM booth in Soura area of Srinagar was found dead on Friday, official sources said. They said the guard, identified as Mohammad Muzaffar Kakroo son of Abdul Kahliq Kakroo, a resident of Amdakadal Lalbazar, was found unconscious inside the ATM booth of HDFC Bank in Soura. “He was […]
