Srinagar, Nov 26: The National Family Health Survey for 2019-21 has revealed that J&K has lowest fertility in whole India and there has been a decline of 0.6 percent fertility rate in J&K since 2015-16 when the last survey was conducted by NFHS. Experts in Jammu and Kashmir believe that there are many reasons for […]
Srinagar, Nov 12: Most of the people who had committed suicide during the fiscal 2019-20 in Jammu and Kashmir have adopted hanging as a tool to end their lives. According to the official figures of National Crime Records Bureau for Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), out of the total percentage of suicides committed across India, […]
Srinagar, Nov 05: In Jammu and Kashmir, at least 287 suicide cases were reported from the region in 2020. According to the figures regarding the accidental deaths and suicides across India in 2020 were revealed by the National Crime Records Bureau for Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that was released earlier in last week of […]
Srinagar, Oct 19: In a major concern, around three lakh children below five years of age have been suffering from two different stages of malnutrition in Jammu and Kashmir during the year 2019-20, reveals a survey. NITI Aayog in a study titled State Nutrition Profile of Jammu and Kashmir released earlier in September has said […]
Ganderbal, Sep 30: A village in Ganderbal district has set an example for the society after announcing dowry as social evil and banning the same in the entire village. The villagers have taken the decision four decades ago and have been following the same in letter and spirit till date. The Baba Wayil village of […]
Srinagar, Sep 18: Falls from walnut trees are turning out to be a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality in Kashmir, especially during the harvesting season of August and September month. Over the years mostly young people who also happened to be the lone bread earners in the family have become victims of the fall. […]
Srinagar, Sept 12: The sero-prevalence study conducted across Kashmir for assessing IgG antibodies among general population and various subgroups have shown that 78 percent of children under 18 years of age sampled during the survey in July this year have developed antibodies against COVID virus. Moreover, the study shows that around 64 percent pregnant women […]
Srinagar, Sep 09: As per the population based Seroprevalence of Covid-19 in Kashmir valley, over 84 percent people have antibodies against the Covid-19 infection. An official said that a pan-Kashmir cross-sectional sero-study was conducted among general population and various subsets of population which include police personnel, healthcare workers, pregnant women by government medical college Srinagar […]
Srinagar, Aug 23: With 1300 school buildings lying vacant in Jammu and Kashmir, J&K’s chief secretary Arun Kumar Mehta has directed the General Administration Department (GAD) and Planning Development & Monitoring department to coordinate with respective deputy commissioners for allotment of these buildings. Documents reveal that the directions were passed by the CS during a […]
New Delhi, Aug 06:The Pensilungpa Glacier (PG), located in Zanskar, Ladakh, is retreating, and a recent study has attributed the retreat to an increase in the temperature and decrease in precipitation during winters. Since 2015, the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science & Technology, GoI, has […]
