Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Internet ban continues in Jammu and Kashmir today

Srinagar: The authorities, today, continue ban on Internet services in the Jammu and Kashmir.
Inspector General of Police of Kashmir wrote a letter to all service providers to continue termination of data services, today.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Worlds First Cloned Pashmina Goat born on March 9,2012 in Kashmir

Dr Riaz Ahmad Shah holds Noori, a cloned Pashmina goat, at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), in Shuhama, 25 km (16 miles) east of Srinagar March 15, 2012. Noori who weighed 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) at birth on March 9, 2012 is the world's first cloned Pashmina goat and is doing well so far, said Dr Shah, who heads the project at SKUAST. Pashmina goats, which grow a thick warm fleece, survive on grass in Ladakh where temperatures plunge to as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit). 

Sunday, December 25, 2011

India, Kashmir textbook controversy

A Kashmiri student reads inside her home as her sister points to a sketch resembling an Indian police officer in a first grade textbook in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. Indian authorities have filed charges against Kashmir education officials over a textbook for first graders that illustrates the word "oppressor" with a sketch resembling an Indian police officer. (AP Photo)