Tejinder sodhi Baramulla: environmental activists warn that wetland in Kashmir are rapidly shrinking due to official apathy and rampant encroachment- endangering thousand of animals and migratory birds. A billboard outside Haigam conservation reserve, a premier wetland in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district that is now plagued by massive siltation and encroachment reads, “In the past 50 years, two third of Kashmir’s wetland have vanished. Silt has reduced the Haigam wetland to almost h...

Tejinder sodhi Srinagar: Undeterred by the lukewarm response of the Director Health services Kashmir and the then Health Minister Chodwary Lal Singh, a battered father has approached Prime Minister’s office (PMO) asking it to take action against two neurosurgeons of SKIMS who operated upon his 14 month old child on right side of his head instead of left. The PMO has not disappointed him. It has directed chief secretary of the state to look into the matter and report back. It was in the ...