The Jammu & Kashmir Administration has decided to shift Kashmir’s winter tourism beyond the famous skiing destination of North Kashmir’s Gulmarg to other places of the valley, in an attempt to promote tourism in the snow-bound areas that remain inaccessible during winter months due to power shortages, landslides and road blockade.
In the ongoing apple harvesting season, where farmers are pumping tones of apples into cold storages across Kashmir, the Government of India has made an important observation suggesting that the Union Territory lacks cold storage and ripening chamber facilities, resulting in damages during transportation.
Jammu & Kashmir’s health care sector is battling a major crisis in the face of inadequate Human Resources for Health (HRH) as a latest analysis of key state-wise parameters of registered doctors, nurses and midwives revealed that the UT has scored lower than the national average of 33.5 percent and WHO’s benchmark of 44.5 percent.
The higher reaches of Kashmir Valley on Tuesday received fresh snowfall while the rains lashed plains dipping the day temperature sharply, officials said.
The Jammu and Kashmir Government’s commitment to rejuvenate businesses in ‘Naya Kashmir’ through multiple efforts has proved a reality as the Union Territory administration invested Rs 83.27 crore in two companies and one corporation and had total investment of Rs 162.39 crore as on 31 March 2021.
The numbers are disheartening, not only because they speak of the instances of child marriages increasing but also because this social evil comes with many other disempowerment indicators. It means that many girls are not getting education, are not leading their lives with dignity and are being deprived of the possibility to live a hopeful life
Jammu & Kashmir is losing its green gold at an astounding pace, making eco activists and nature lovers worried about the downward trend. The latest jungle report has painted a grim picture as it states that J&K has lost 120 hectares of wetland in 10 years.
A local court has directed police to file a case against Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Gurez and probe the allegations of assault leveled against him by a Scheduled Tribe (ST) lecturer posted in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General (Prisons) Hemant K Lohia was found murdered at his residence in Jammu on Monday night with police suspecting his domestic help as the main culprit, police said.
Even as there was a substantial increase in the unemployment rate in Jammu and Kashmir in the month of August, the joblessness rate has come down by over 9 percent in the Union Territory in September, as per Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
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