News Topic:Water Scarcity
Kashmir
Pinjura villagers accuse DDC Shopian of snapping water supply
SHOPIAN — Locals from Pinjura village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Monday alleged that PHE Department on the directions of District Development Commissioner...
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Kashmir
Police ends scuffle over water scarcity with teargas shells in Shopian
A massive teargas shelling was reported from Pinjura area of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Thursday after a scuffle occurred between two villages over water scarcity.
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Kashmir
Water crisis hits villages in Awantipora
Amid scorching heat, residents of Noorpora (Pathgam) of Awantipora town in Pulwama district are facing acute shortage of drinking water for the past three months.
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Kashmir
Water Shortage: Seedlings sown over thousands of acres of land drying up
Seedlings sown over thousands of acres of land are drying up in Kanihama block of Tehsil BK Pora here in central Kashmir’s Budgam district.
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News & Interviews
Gujarbasti Karewa Drabgam: Combating COVID-19 Without Clean Water?
The residents of Gujarbasti Karewa Drabgam area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district do not have access to clean water, posing a risk to their health amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pakistan
India and Pakistan likely to fight a war over water in future: Cameron Munter
Former US envoy to Pakistan Cameron Munter on Wednesday said that in his opinion, India and Pakistan are likely to fight a war in future over sharing of water resources.
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Business & Economy
Aqua Soft to address India’s safe drinking water needs
NEW DELHI / DigPu — Aqua Soft, a Domestic & Commercial Reverse Osmosis and Water Vending machine manufacturing company, is aiming to address India's...
Kashmir
Budgam’s Wagoora residents protest against PHE
Budgam: Scores of residents from Wagoora village of central Kashmir's Budgam district on Friday gathered to protest against the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department...
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Truck-Eeco collision in Pattan claims life, leaves another injured
A person was killed and another injured after a road accident involving a truck and an Eeco vehicle bearing registration number JK04H-7988 at Hyderbeigh area of Pattan.
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J&K braces for fresh spell of rain and snow
After the season’s first major widespread snowfall, Jammu and Kashmir is set to witness another spell of rain and snow from Monday evening, the MeT said.
TRAI Report: Reliance Jio and Airtel dominate network performance in Katra and Udhampur; BSNL lags behind
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released its latest IDT findings, revealing significant disparities in mobile network performance across the J&K.
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From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, one man walks for a purer India
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Pulwama’s young students endure scorching heat as school construction stalls
For more than a year, young students at Government Upper Primary School (UPS) Chewakalan in Pulwama have been forced to study in sweltering, makeshift tin sheds.