Editorial - Page 30

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…

Understanding votes

Now that the results are out for the recently concluded DDC elections both the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration and BJP seem to be in a celebratory mood. No doubt that the…
December 24, 2020
Snow-clad view of Srinagar's Dal Lake and adjoining areas (KM-File photo)

Chillai kalan and Covid

Finding itself in the grip of severe cold, Kashmir and its residents are again banking on the age-old methods to keep their hearths and bodies warm. However, with Covid-19 pandemic gripping the…
December 23, 2020

Connecting with people

Long lines of people taking part in the election process during the ongoing DDC polls in Jammu and Kashmir is becoming a normal sign these days. On Wednesday, when the Union Territory…
December 17, 2020

Middle-class crisis

A man in Kashmir puts up an advertisement on a newspaper pleading people to buy his kidney so that he can pay up his debt. No one in his wildest dreams in…
December 16, 2020

Hope 2021

Since March, our lives have been oscillating between two words: Coronavirus and vaccine. Jolted by COVID-19, medical science is faced up with the challenge to beat it. As hundreds of thousands have…
December 15, 2020

Online classes and vacations

The Jammu and Kashmir government has announced winter vacations in all schools upto higher secondary level in Kashmir and winter zones of Jammu. In an official order on Friday, the school education…
December 12, 2020

Smartphone, not so smart users

Studies say that ever since the smartphone gaming addiction has emerged, its consequences have proven negative. It is predicted that changes that take place because of it may affect certain normal aspects…
December 9, 2020

Inevitable disaster

Climate change is the biggest environmental emergency that the earth faces today. This inevitable disaster has a multitude of serious implications for both environment and human society. Efforts are being made to…
December 5, 2020

Finding an alternative

The scourge of online classes imposed due to the pandemic, exacerbated by slow 2G speed in Kashmir, has forced children to spend more time on the screen resulting in severe health problems.…
December 3, 2020

Preparing a mechanism

As the global healthcare industry is all focused on bringing out a vaccine to deal with COVID-19 pandemic, there are some of the local challenges that several developing countries badly hit by…
December 2, 2020