A women’s group in Ladakh is fighting to save the region’s environment, help conserve water

Women’s Alliance of Ladakh, which had earlier enforced a plastic ban, is now encouraging farmers to go back to traditional practices owing to water scarcity.

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· Sep 08, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Bactrian camels, the survivors of the Silk Route, are plying a new trade in Ladakh

The double-humped camel was on the verge of extinction in India. A commercial initiative, disliked by activists, has helped revive their population.

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· Sep 02, 2018 · 11:30 am

Ladakh’s ingenious water-conserving ‘ice stupas’ have left farmers living downstream disgruntled

The artificial glacier, created by engineers Chewang Norphel and Sonam Wangchuk, have been praised by experts globally, but there’s some friction closer home.

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· Jul 07, 2018 · 01:30 pm

In photos: As tourism grows, so does trash in Ladakh’s Pangong Lake

Starting with ‘3 Idiots’, Hindi movies have made the remote water body in Jammu and Kashmir a popular attraction.

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· Jun 28, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Shujaat Bukhari touched many lives in the media and beyond – and that’s his great legacy

If journalism was the ‘Rising Kashmir’ editor’s profession, social work was where his heart lay.

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· Jun 18, 2018 · 07:57 pm

Women of rural Kashmir suffer because of a lack of gynaecologists, anaesthetists and nurses

Healthcare infrastructure is poor in rural areas of Kashmir. It particularly affects the women, who have to rush to Srinagar to get proper medical attention.

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· Jun 16, 2018 · 02:30 pm

How Kashmir’s famed mountain resorts are being turned into heavily polluted concrete jungles

Reckless construction and lack of waste management have wrecked the fragile ecosystems of Sonamarg, Pahalgam and Gulmarg.

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· May 27, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Kashmir’s ‘Mini Punjab’: Growing vegetables reaps big dividends for Budgam’s farmers

Vegetable cultivation is offering farmers about five times more returns than cereal crops, say experts.

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· Mar 24, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Honey processing is yielding sweet returns for farmers in the Kashmir Valley

Farmers growing fruits and vegetables in Kashmir are doubling as beekeepers to boost incomes.

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· Nov 29, 2017 · 09:30 pm

The reason why Kashmir’s stunning Wular Lake is shrinking: Willow trees

Plantations of willow for cricket bats, fruit boxes and fires have caused the lake to silt up and shrink.

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· Sep 30, 2017 · 09:30 pm

As pollution, encroachment hurt Jammu and Kashmir’s water bodies, livelihoods suffer

Fishing and other rural communities that have traditionally depended on Wular Lake are now struggling to earn a living from it.

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· Sep 13, 2017 · 09:30 pm

Fact check: Did NIA raids really bring down stone pelting in J&K, as Rajnath Singh claimed?

The stone-pelting figures since May, after the NIA cracked down on separatists, are similar to the numbers from January-March.

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· Aug 24, 2017 · 09:30 pm