Highways minister Nitin Gadkari initiated virtual ‘ceremonial blast’ of the tunnel Thursday. Once complete, it will provide year-round connectivity between Srinagar and Leh. Representational image. A file photo of the Zojila pass in Jammu and Kashmir. New Delhi: Fifteen years after it was first conceived, work on the strategically crucial 14.5-km Zojila tunnel, connecting Srinagar to Leh with an all-weather road, ...

File photo of a doctor setting Oxygen levels at a government hospital in Srinagar Srinagar: More than 37 hospitals will be equipped with the state-of-the-art oxygen plants in the next four months. Jammu and Kashmir government has floated tenders for the Rs 223 crore project. Under the project, all associated hospitals, district hospitals, and some Primary Health Centers (PHCs) will be ...

No parallel escape tunnel in new design; instead of two bi-directional tunnels, single two-way tunnel to be built File/ Representational Photo The work on the much-awaited Zojila tunnel is likely to begin on October 15. Sources told the Greater Kashmir that the Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari is likely to inaugurate the work on the tunnel ...

Riverbed mining in Arin, which flows into the Jhelum river via Wular Lake in Kashmir. Going against its own orders, the government in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered the fast-tracking of environmental clearances despite manifest evidence of illegal sand mining. A few months after the Jammu and Kashmir government auctioned hundreds of stretches of riverbeds ...