Chief Secretary stressed the need for scientific solutions to various issues of local importance such as waste management, biomass energy, plastic to fuel stressing need to run a waste to wealth campaign.
"Two cross-border narco smugglers have been arrested by Srinagar Police. The police have seized 11.08 Kg Heroin, worth Rs 70 crore in the international market and a total cash amount of Rs 11,82,500 from their possession", said, AGDP Kumar.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has taken the initiative to reconstruct the historic Ganta Ghar as part of plans to mould Srinagar into a smart city.
A blast occurred in a private car in Srinagar on Sunday at Boulevard road which triggered panic among people nearby, said police. However, nobody was injured, police said.
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandviya on Friday virtually laid the foundation stone of 4 health projects in Dehradun which includes 500 bedded Hospital at New Block in Doon Medical College, Dehradun, and three 50 bedded Critical Care Blocks at Rudraprayag, Nainital and Srinagar.
Around 3,000 people attended the exhibition of rare Quranic manuscripts which has been going on for the past week at the Shri Pratap Singh Museum in Srinagar.
The poet, Amir Khusrau, astutely described the beauty of Kashmir, saying that if there is a heaven on earth, it is here. And the crown of Kashmir, the city of Srinagar, has been receiving a makeover under the Srinagar Smart City Project (SSCP).
As a gesture of kindness and humanity, Srinagar-based non-government organisation Aab-e-Rawan has made it a mission to help the needy in the central Kashmir's Srinagar hospitals during the month of Ramzan.