Kashmir: Manasbal’s Poisoning
Kashmir's deepest lake, Manasbal, faces severe bacterial contamination, a new CPCB report reveals, threatening drinking water for thousands and the livelihoods of shikara operators...
Nepal’s Endless Grief
After Nepal's August 26 flash flood along the Bhote Koshi River, survivors in Kathmandu shelters mourn missing kin, await DNA confirmation, and rebuild through...
Reviving Kashmir’s Snow Trout
Kashmir's native snow trout is disappearing from rivers and lakes. Scientists at SKUAST are breeding fish to release into the wild, reports Babra Wani
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Kashmir: Bulldozers Outrun Rights
As forest evictions surge across Jammu and Kashmir, thousands of rights claims lie rejected, exposing a gap between promise and ground reality, reports Mir...
Kashmir’s Willow Wails
Kashmir's Rs 700-crore willow-bat industry, feeding nearly 400 units and 1.5 lakh livelihoods, is bleeding raw material to smugglers even as manufacturers themselves stay...
Kashmir: Feasting Fresh Catch
A family-run trout farm in South Kashmir lets visitors catch, clean and grill their own rainbow trout, turning a fisheries venture into a rural...
The Riverbed Fish Burials
Mechanised riverbed mining is dismantling the biological processes that sustain Kashmir's fish populations, disrupting spawning, breeding and habitat at a physiological level. The vanishing...
Kashmir: Deadly Monsoons
Cloudbursts and flash floods tore through Jammu and Kashmir over three days, killing more than 28 people, sweeping away homes and vehicles, and forcing...
Kashmir: Waste Promises
Jammu and Kashmir’s circular economy policy sets ambitious targets for 2035, but the gap between vision and ground reality reveals a region still drowning...
Kashmir: Fish For Mutton
As a mutton trade standoff threatens supplies ahead of the wedding season, Kashmir's traditional staple, fish, could be staging a comeback, reports Babra Wani
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Kashmir’s Poisoned Harvest
A new study across Kashmir’s four water bodies finds water chestnut fruits carrying cadmium levels 5.5 times above safe limits, with Dal Lake recording...
Kashmir: Anchar In A Lake
A once-thriving wetland at the heart of Srinagar's ecosystem is dying quietly, suffocated by sewage, encroachment, and decades of collective neglect, reports Afreen Ashraf
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Kashmir: A Fisherman’s Tale
At the peak of mutiny in 1857, when Maharaja Gulab Singh’s death turned fish into forbidden fruit, Srinagar paid a savage price for the...
The Kaeshir Gaad Retreats
Kashmir's endemic freshwater fish, once abundant across the Dal, the Wular and the Jhelum, are disappearing, not into extinction, scientists say, but into a...
Kashmir’s Vanishing Lakes
When nearly three-quarters of Jammu and Kashmir's lakes disappear or shrink, a region's ecological identity, and its people's safety and livelihood, hang in the...
