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Ecology

This section is a window to the happenings and challenges that Jammu and Kashmir’s fragile ecology faces. It tackles water bodies, forests, flora and fauna, wild life, weather and impact of developmental activities on mother nature.

Photo: Bilal Bahadur

Playing With Peaks

With the death of 10 workers under a massive landslide in Ramban, while working on a road project, the focus is back to the...

A 100-Lake Record

Pushed into nature by the melancholic hypnosis at Tosamaidan, Mahmood Ahmad spent 15 years trekking and hiking to document Kashmir’s 100 high altitude lakes, rare feat...
Myriad Tents rested in Amarnath

Serving the faith

The conduct of the Amarnath pilgrimage is a garguntaun task every year. A huge number of government employees from almost all the departments have...

Reliving Waltengo

Flattened by snow storm a decade ago, Waltengo Nar in South Kashmir’s Qazigund area is completely a different place now. The change has redefined...

Wetland Versus Sports Field

A concerned citizen and a passionate lover of his immediate environment has stood up to powerful politicians and vested interests to protect a wetland...

‘Royal’ Sale

A Mughal era garden in Dal Lake’s lap is latest causality of land mafia. Sold by the Maharaja to a wealthy local, the garden...

A Treasure Within the Treasure

By: Dr Syed Riyaz-Ul-Hassan Khuda agar dil-e fitrat shinas de tujh ko Sukoot-e lala’o gul se kalam pyda kar      -ALLAMA IQBAL The diversity of plants...

Stinking Beauty

Famous health resort Gulmarg which is known for its vast meadows and wild flower beds is facing existential threat as tonnes of waste generated...
Messy Millions Cover Story

Messy Millions

As crores of rupees flow into the sleepy Letpora hamlet, a dangerous consumerism has set in among the villagers, replacing simplicity and appetite for...

A trip to Kousarnag

By Danish Ahmad Kousarnag- located roughly 141 miles from Srinagar, is considered one of the attractive sites. Every year, thousands of trekkers make the grueling...

Right to Vandalize

With people trying to shadow environmental concerns by invoking religion the controversy surrounding Kousar Nag yatra refuses to die down. Shah Abbas tries to...

Dal Lake: A Monograph

This document authored by Prof Dr MRD Kundangar in the early 1990s for the Hydrobiology Laboratory of the SP College, which he was heading,...

Autumn Angling

With harvest over and the Lidder reporting low discharge, hundreds of youth report to the river and take tons of fish home, for most...

Food Festival: Now, Medicinal Herbs to Fetch Jobs to Valley Youth!

Shakir Mir KL NEWS NETWORK SRINAGAR This Sunday, food-lovers in Srinagar took an unusual detour from their regular food habits and swarmed to relish some vintage Kashmiri...

1885 Earthquake

Kashmir owes a lot to the British doctor duo, the Neve Brothers, the missionaries who were running the Mission Hospital. Here is the first-hand...