Tourists romanticise horses, Warwan residents want a bus

Sameer Ahmad | August 29, 2023 1:41 PM

Anantnag (Jammu and Kashmir), Aug 29 (IANS/101Reporters) “Warwan Valley is exceptionally stunning -- even for Kashmir...The valley’s remoteness and isolation compound this beauty. This is a side of Kashmir that even most Kashmiris haven’t seen.” This is how a trekking company describes Warwan Valley, nestled in the Pir Panjal mountains between Ladakh and Kashmir.

Ranked ‘High Achiever’ in household tap connection coverage, Jamui district forced to buy drinking water

Rahul Kumar Gaurav | August 28, 2023 3:58 PM

Jamui (Bihar), Aug 28 (IANS/101 Reporters) Bablu Kumar (35) stays in the Railway Colony of Gangra village in Bihar’s Jamui district. He buys drinking water at the rate of Rs 20 for a 20-litre bottle. “We need at least two bottles a day. Of the 1,000 households in the Colony, about 700 buy water while the rest draw drinking water from a hand pump. Work for the tap water scheme started in our ward in 2019 but it is still incomplete,” said Kumar. Four concrete pillars on which a water storage tank was to be placed stand testimony to an unfulfilled dream of tap water supply in Ward No.1, where Bablu lives. The tank, pipeline connection to households and taps still remain.

'Pregaming' associated to risky substance use among college students: Study

IANS | August 26, 2023 4:58 PM

San Francisco, Aug 26 (IANS) Researchers have said that college students who "pregame" (also known as pre-booze, pre-drinking or pre-loading) or participate in tailgating and similar activities before athletic events, are also more likely to take part in unsafe alcohol and other substance use, a new study has shown.