Floods in 4 states lead to economic loss of Rs 19,000 crore in past one year

Close to 20 million people displaced or affected

Simply Put: Statehood for Ladakh

Weaving votes

Needling shawl makers, and an antelope

Saving saffron

J&K proposes a strategy

Impact of climate change on Kashmir’s mushroom pickers

Unpredictable weather patterns, early springs, and above-average temperatures have left gucchi mushroom hunters in distress, facing another …

Jantar Mantar Protests: Why are Ladakhis demanding statehood?

The people of Leh and Kargil want to protect their homeland’s fragile ecology; they also want constitutional safeguards under the …

Kashmir: a treasure of forest herbs

Many of these herbs have medicinal value and are used in the treatment of both common and serious ailments

Of barren hills and barrel smoke

Militancy has destroyed much more than peace in Kashmir. Kalashnikov-trotting extremists are ravaging the last green frontiers of the 'heaven on …

Science for people

Scientists attending the 101st Science Congress discuss solutions to lift farmers, livestock owners out of poverty

Why are nomads being evicted from Jammu and Kashmir?

Eviction drives come shortly after the J&K High Court declared the Roshni Act, allowed ownership of occupied government land …

Simultaneous quakes rock Kashmir

The first quake happened on February 5 while the second happened the day after

Frightened by change

INDIA

Peppered cure

Lake protection

Weeding out corruption

The Save Dal Lake project is embroiled in a multi-crore scam

Fire on mountain

Forest blaze guts hundreds of trees in Jammu hills

Udhampur gets earthquake observatory

New seismological observatory will help further strengthen the region’s earthquake monitoring

Why Jammu-Srinagar national highway is so landslide prone

Most of the hills around Jammu-Srinagar highway were rocky and barren and any disturbance — natural or anthropogenic (man-made) — …

Jammu and Kashmir farmers suffering due to rain, snow and lockdown

Unseasonal weather has destroyed apples in Kashmir and paddy in Jammu even as government promises to procure crops have rung hollow

Dog bites decrease in Srinagar but the fear remains

Though there has been a slight decrease in the incidents of dog-bites in recent years in Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital, cynophobia …

Frost bites apple in Kashmir

Freak snowfall in the Kashmir Valley has destroyed around half of the apple economy and exposed an ill-prepared government

National Saffron Mission has failed due to government insensitivity, say growers

The ailing industry was badly hit by last year’s floods which damaged saffron worth Rs 668 crore 

Underrated green

Kohlrabi is a healthy but little used member of the cabbage family

Doda land subsidence: Improper drainage system among main causes, say geologists

Several houses in Ramban district, which borders Doda, have also developed cracks