Flyover

Flyover

There has been huge delay in making of flyover from Jehangir Chowk-Ram Bagh. Even during the Governor’s rule, the agency of the flyover missed many deadlines to complete the project. After the administration asked him to finish the work as soon as possible he could recently only complete the second phase of the flyover as […]

Biodiversity focus

Biodiversity focus

Biodiversity for Kashmir is very important as it is the main plank for the equilibrium of the environment. The overall environment in Kashmir is now very fragile and the government has also started efforts for the preservation of environment. In this direction, the authorities are focusing on the importance of biodiversity. Recently Governor’s administration highlighted […]

Sigh of relief

Sigh of relief

  Much to the ease and delight of people of Jammu and Kashmir, the authorities have finally decided to lift all curbs and restrictions on highway on the movement of civilian traffic. State Governor Satya Pal Malik has been working in this direction from the past few weeks as he was not reportedly happy with […]

Zakura land

Zakura land

State administration has transferred 60 kanals of land at Zakura on outskirts of Srinagar to CRPF against consideration of money. The land originally belonged to Horticulture Produce Corporation and it was occupied by forces in 1990. Although the land was in possession of CRPF, but the Horticulture Corporation has been requesting the government that it […]

Highway crisis

Highway crisis

The government is trying its best to streamline the traffic on Srinagar-Jammu highway and in the recent past have held several rounds of meetings to look into the real problems and streamline the process. In this direction the latest meeting was held by all the advisors to Governor to discuss the status of works undertaken […]

High woes

High woes

While the highway is continuing to be in focus in Kashmir Valley because of frequent landslides and also of the curbs by the government on the movement of civilian traffic. The new factor which is coming to the focus is the plight of those hundreds of drivers who come with truck loads of essential commodities […]

Alternative highway

Alternative highway

State government has been fighting very hard with the Central authorities for providing an alternate highway to Kashmir and Ladakh regions apart from Srinagar-Jammu highway. In this direction all the previous governments have tried their best to get the Mughal road as all weather roads by virtue of creating a tunnel at Pir-ki-Gali. But all […]

Dal lake crisis

Dal lake crisis

If latest media reports are to be believed, hundreds of crores have gone down the drain in conservation of Dal lake project as the state administration is seriously looking for rehabilitation of Dal dwellers somewhere near the lake like Shalimar and Chandipora Harwan. Recently, Governor’s administration is a big leap forward has decided to complete […]

Price hike

Price hike

In this holy month of Ramadan, the government has failed so far to control the prices in the markets of Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir. By acting against small shopkeepers of Srinagar and districts, the government is only compounding the problem. There is further hike in the prices and the wholesalers have not been […]

Where are tourists?

Where are tourists?

It is the month of May and Kashmir has never witnessed such low tourist traffic in the past few decades. There are almost no tourists in this holy month of Ramadan visible on the streets of Srinagar. Tourism players are shocked by the attitude of the Central Government and they are right when they say […]