Residents in Khrew village decry lack of basic facilities
Pulwama: Residents of Satpukhran village in Khrew belt of Pampore area in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district are up in arms against the authorities. The villagers allege lack of basic facilities in the village. Locals said that they have been neglected by the district administration and basic facilities like roads, vital bridges and electricity have not […]
Landslide damages dozens of houses in DH Pora
Locals stage protest demand rehabilitation
Anantnag: Residents of Check Ranbir pora village in Damhal Hanjipora belt in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday staged protest against district administration for falling to rehabilitate the locals as landslides continue in the area thereby damaging their residential houses. Locals said that landslides continue in the area from last 15 days but authorities have […]
This apple is definitely sour: NAFED fails to repay farmers who sold them their produce
Shopian: Dozens of apple growers in southern Kashmir are feeling deprived as they are waiting for the payment of their produce they sold under market intervention scheme introduced by National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED) last year. The growers alleged that they have received just 55 percent payment for the produce they […]
Amity: Muslim man takes care of 100 year old temple in Shopian
Shopian: In a rare exhibition of brotherhood and harmony, a 45 year old Muslim man is South Kashmir’s Shopian district looks after a 100 year old ‘Teerath Raj Kapal Mochan’ temple. Ghulam Qadir Sheikh of Digam Nagbal spends most of his time in cleaning this temple located in Devpora Nagbal Shopian on the banks of […]
130 students elbow for space in a three room school
Anantnag: A government middle school in Trajan Alsadar village of Verinag zone in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district has around 130 students but the school has only three rooms out of which one serves as an office for the school while as two rooms are used as classrooms for the students. “One might find it hard […]
Shopian villagers complain getting contaminated water, authorities indifferent
Shopian: The inhabitants of Tachloo, Kharwara, check Sideeq Khan and it’s adjacent areas in South Kashmir’s Shopian district have accused the Public Health Engineering Department (PHE) of supplying contaminated water to them. In absence of filtration plant, authorities are providing us water directly from a local canal which is contaminated, they said adding that many […]
Willow cleft smuggling cripples bat Industry in Kashmir
Manufacturers demand strict action against smugglers
Anantnag: The continuous willow cleft smuggling from the industrial estate Awantipora-Sangam area has left the local bat manufacturer unit holders worried. President of Bat manufacturers Association Fayaz Ahmad Dar said that despite ban on the smuggling of willow clefts, thousands of clefts are being illegally smuggled outside union territory of Jammu and Kashmir on regular […]
Naina Pulwama faces acute shortage of potable water
Pulwama: Residents of Naina village in Litter Tehsil of Pulwama district are facing acute shortage of drinking water as according to locals authorities have failed to provide water supply to the area. According to locals a water supply scheme was started in year 2007 in a nearby village Batpora to provide drinking water to Batpora […]