Editorial - Page 29

May 2, 2024

Flood-like Situation

Flash-floods and landslides have caused damage to property and livestock in several parts of Kashmir valley. While parts of Jammu division have been hit too, few villages in Ramban and Mandi Poonch…
May 1, 2024

Effective Handling

Man-animal conflicts have always posed major challenges in Jammu and Kashmir and caused panic among residents. These conflicts often result in property damage, livestock depredation and even loss of human lives, underscoring…
April 30, 2024

Land Sinking

Land sinking, or land subsidence, has emerged as another environmental challenge in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The recent incident in the Ramban district, where over 58 houses were completely…
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For farmers

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the controversial farm laws for now and said that a committee would be formed to take over negotiations to end the massive farmer protests near Delhi…
January 13, 2021

Bird flu scare

As Kashmir was already grappling with COVID-19, a major snowfall rattled it further and now threats of a looming avian influenza or bird flu are making people anxious. It all started when…
January 12, 2021

Education for innovation

The scheme of education needs a thorough overhaul in Jammu and Kashmir to make students industry ready and bring out in them the best of innovators who can really carve their own…
January 11, 2021

Heart attacks among young

In the last few months, several cases of apparently healthy young men dying of cardiac arrests have come to the fore in Kashmir. The trend is worrying as in most of these…
January 9, 2021

Respond quickly

Most of the district administrations in Kashmir were caught napping this week as heavy snowfall continued to batter the valley since Sunday morning. Kashmir is in the middle of a severe weather…
January 6, 2021

Life on the line

Kashmir is witnessing year’s maiden and heaviest snowfall so far. Moderate to heavy snowfall begun early Sunday morning and it has been more than 24 hours since the weather disruption started throwing…
January 5, 2021

Hecklers: Education in 2021

The year 2020 is over. It will go down in the history as one of the most challenging ones in the last one century. While pandemic rattled the entire globe, devouring millions…
January 2, 2021

‘SEHAT’ and non-COVID healthcare

Healthcare in Kashmir has been dealing with a formidable challenge in the shape of COVID-19 since March this year. Doctors, nurses, and other paramedical staff have been totally overwhelmed by the flood…
December 30, 2020

Forgettable 2020

2020 is almost over and we all may want to forget this year forever. Cross it off from our lives like it never existed. Think that the last decade ended in 2019…
December 29, 2020

Work c(v)ulture

A government job in Kashmir is considered a ticket to “settled, happy life”– whatever that means. As hundreds of thousands of people in the valley are employed by the government given the…
December 26, 2020
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