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Srinagar: Now your favourite Kashmir saffron Kehwa blend has been reduced to a pill. Scientists at SKUAST-Kashmir after rigorous efforts have succeeded in making the blend available in a small dispersible tablet of a few grams. Years of efforts by experts at the division of Food Science and Technology at the university have found a way to reduce the drudgery of finding the vital ingredients that go into the making of Kehwa and processing them to find a perfect balance, with the replacement bein...

The Mahura powerhouse, built by British engineers in 1902, has been defunct since 1997 Baramulla: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to reconstruct the small hydroelectric powerhouse known as “Mahura” in Uri, in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, which has been lying defunct for more than two decades. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Baramulla Dr Gulam Nabi Itoo told Kashmir Reader that the government plans to renovate and revive the heritage Mahura hydroelectric project with a gen...

SRINAGAR: A senior lecturer and acting principal of a government higher secondary school in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district was on Thursday allegedly beaten up by a policeman posted at Police Station Karnah. The said teacher, Rizwan Ahmad Mir, is officiating Principal of Government Higher Secondary School Nachiyan Karnah. He told Kashmir Reader that on Thursday morning he went to Police Station Karnah for the physical verification of stationery including question papers for this year’s Cla...