Batamaloo residents take to streets over acute water scarcity

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Residents of Batamaloo in Srinagar once again took to the streets on Tuesday to voice their anger over the acute shortage of water in the locality. The protest, predominantly led by women from Momin Abad, saw them blocking the road and staging a sit-in protest, raising slogans against the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department for…

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Heatwave Triggers Water, Power Crisis in Jammu Division

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Heatwave has triggered a severe water and power crisis in several areas of the Jammu division, prompting authorities to set up control rooms and appoint nodal officers in each district to cater to public complaints. On Monday, authorities announced a four-hour load-shedding in urban areas and an eight-hour cut in rural areas on a daily…

Women Halts Vande Bharat Train Over Water Crisis in Jammu

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Women stopped the Vande Bharat train on Thursday by staging a protest at a railway station here against water crisis compounded by heatwave conditions. The demonstrators threatened to block all incoming and outgoing trains if the water crisis in their colony was not addressed urgently. Scores of women and some children from the Jammu East…

Snowfall proves kryptonite for Handwara villagers
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Snowfall proves kryptonite for Handwara villagers

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Aman Zutshi As thousands J&K-ites are expressing joy over fresh snowfall after long dry weather in the region. The same can’t be said for residents of last village of Handwara’s Langate for whom snow is proving kryptonite because villagers have been struggling to de-freeze frozen PHE water pipes to have access to water for daily…