Dogripora–Wular Flood Channel- Sheikh Gulzar

Dogripora–Wular Flood Channel

By : Sheikh Gulzar
The Dogripora–Wular Flood ChannelProject is a strategic flood mitigation and water management initiative proposed in the Kashmir Valley to enhance the hydraulic connectivity between the Dogripora area and Wular Lake, one of Asia’s largest freshwater lakes. The project aims to safely divert excess floodwaters during high-flow periods, thereby reducing flood risk to downstream habitations, agricultural lands, and critical infrastructure.

The proposed flood channel will act as an auxiliary drainage corridor, facilitating the controlled conveyance of surplus water from upstream catchments into Wular Lake during peak rainfall, snowmelt, and extreme hydrological events. This intervention is designed to supplement the existing river and nallah network, which has become inadequate due to siltation, encroachments, reduced carrying capacity, and climate-induced flow variability.

Objectives

• To mitigate recurrent flooding in low-lying and flood-prone areas of Dogripora and adjoining regions
• To improve floodwater evacuation efficiency into Wular Lake
• To enhance regional water regulation and hydrological balance
• To reduce damage to agriculture, settlements, and public infrastructure
• To contribute to ecological restoration by improving water circulation toward Wular Lake

Project Components

• Excavation and construction of a dedicated flood channel from Dogripora to Wular Lake
• Strengthening and stabilization of channel banks through embankments and slope protection
• Construction of hydraulic structures such as regulators, sluice gates, and cross-drainage works
• Desilting and removal of obstructions along the channel alignment
• Provision of access roads and inspection paths for operation and maintenance
• Environmental safeguards including erosion control and vegetation measures

Expected Benefits

• Significant reduction in flood intensity and duration in vulnerable areas
• Improved flood resilience and disaster preparedness
• Protection of livelihoods dependent on agriculture and fisheries
• Improved water inflow management to Wular Lake, supporting its ecological health
• Long-term socio-economic benefits through reduced disaster-related losses

Conclusion

The Dogripora–Wular Flood Channel Project is a critical infrastructure intervention aimed at strengthening flood management in the Kashmir Valley. The DPR outlines a technically viable, environmentally conscious, and socially beneficial solution to address increasing flood risks while supporting sustainable water resource management and regional resilience.

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India, Anger, and the Illusion of Peace

The idea that India was once a perfectly harmonious civilisation, shattered only by foreign invasions, is more myth than memory. Long before the arrival of the Mughal Empire, the subcontinent was fractured by continuous warfare—kingdom against kingdom, caste against caste, sect against sect. Violence existed, but it was decentralised and incessant. Kennedi Gopalan

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President Donald Trump -Latest statement

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President Donald Trump has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC over a Panorama documentary aired before the 2024 US election. 

Trump claims the BBC edited his January 6, 2021 speech in a way that falsely suggested he encouraged supporters to storm the US Capitol. 

He said the broadcaster “put words in my mouth,” even suggesting the edit looked like it involved AI, though artificial intelligence is not mentioned in the lawsuit. 

The BBC has admitted to editing the clip but denies any legal wrongdoing. Legal experts say the case reflects growing mistrust of media editing as AI concerns increasingly enter political debate.

Sheikh Gulzar / Ginkgo Gulzar – Identity & Professional Profile

 

Sheikh Gulzar @Ginkgo Gulzar

About Sheikh Gulzar @Ginkgo Gulzar
Sheikh Gulzar (also known as Ginkgo Gulzar) is an Indian agriculturist and medicinal-plants promoter from the Kashmir region. He is known for his work related to the cultivation, promotion, and public awareness of Ginkgo biloba and other medicinal, horticultural, and nut tree species.

Name and Identity
Sheikh Gulzar is his legal and official name, used in government records and formal correspondence.

The name “Ginkgo Gulzar” is a popular and professional alias by which he is publicly known, derived from his association with the promotion of Ginkgo biloba. Both names refer to the same individual, and there is no separate person under the name “Ginkgo Gulzar”.

Work and Activities
Sheikh Gulzar has been involved in activities related to:
Promotion of medicinal plants and herbal cultivation

Awareness initiatives on Ginkgo biloba, nut trees, and climate-adapted species
Advocacy for sustainable agriculture and farmer-led innovation
Conservation and propagation of rare and economically important plant species
His work has been referenced in local agricultural discussions, environmental forums, and public awareness efforts related to herbal and alternative plant-based practices.

Public Recognition
Due to his consistent association with Ginkgo biloba cultivation and awareness, the nickname “Ginkgo Gulzar” became widely used in public discourse, media mentions, and informal references. For official and legal purposes, he is identified as Sheikh Gulzar.

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Lucky chicken with a 5th toe: What’s right and what isn’t

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Lucky chicken with a 5th toe: What’s right and what isn’t Kindle Edition

by Kennedi Gopalan (Author), Priya Seenu (Illustrator), & 2 More  Format: Kindle Edition

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When a fragile chick with an unusual fifth toe falls from the sky, six-year-old Ishvar becomes its only hope. Armed with nothing but ₹10.50 and a fierce desire to help, he faces tough decisions, unexpected truths, and the weight of responsibility far bigger than himself.

A moving story about kindness, bravery, and the quiet miracles found in everyday life.

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Nut Tree Farming for Profit

Pecan nut trees in Kashmir

Nut trees are high-value, long-term assets. Once established, they produce for decades with relatively low annual costs. Here’s a practical profit-focused guide.

1️⃣ Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) ⭐ High ROI

• Climate: Sub-tropical to temperate (Punjab, J&K, Himachal, Uttarakhand)
• Bearing: 6–8 years
• Yield: 20–40 kg/tree
• Income: ₹18–40 lakh/ha/year (mature orchard)
• Why choose it? Strong export demand, premium price, less competition than walnut

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2️⃣ Walnut (Juglans regia) 🌳 Traditional + Export

• Climate: Cold temperate (Kashmir, HP)
• Bearing: 8–10 years
• Yield: 30–60 kg/tree
• Income: ₹10–25 lakh/ha/year
• Note: Needs chilling hours & skilled post-harvest handling

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3️⃣ Almond (Prunus dulcis) 🌸 Early Returns

• Climate: Dry temperate
• Bearing: 3–4 years
• Income: ₹8–20 lakh/ha/year
• Advantage: Faster returns than walnut/pecan

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4️⃣ Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) 🌰 Emerging Crop

• Climate: Cool temperate
• Bearing: 3–5 years
• Income: ₹12–18 lakh/ha/year
• Demand: Chocolate & confectionery industry

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5️⃣ Pistachio (Pistacia vera) 🏜️ Premium Niche

• Climate: Dry, cold winters, hot summers
• Bearing: 7–8 years
• Income: ₹15–30 lakh/ha/year
• Best for: Low rainfall regions with irrigation

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📊 Profit Comparison (Mature Orchards)

Nut Crop	Bearing Time	Avg Profit/ha
Pecan	6–8 yrs	₹18–40 lakh
Walnut	8–10 yrs	₹10–25 lakh
Almond	3–4 yrs	₹8–20 lakh
Hazelnut	3–5 yrs	₹12–18 lakh
Pistachio	7–8 yrs	₹15–30 lakh

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🚜 Key Success Factors

• ✔️ Certified grafted plants
• ✔️ Proper spacing & pruning
• ✔️ Drip irrigation + mulching
• ✔️ Intercropping (saffron, garlic, herbs in early years)
• ✔️ Value addition: kernels, cold-pressed nut oil, export grading

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🌍 Best Regions in India

• Kashmir Valley – Walnut, Pecan, Hazelnut
• Himachal & Uttarakhand – Almond, Walnut
• Punjab & North India plains – Pecan
• Dry cold regions – Pistachio (trial basis)

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✅ Bottom Line

If you want maximum long-term profit with growing global demand, Pecan farming currently offers the best balance of yield, price, and scalability in India—especially compared to walnut.

Availability of planting material

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Jehlum Motors and Electronics Pampore – Sales, Service & Accessories

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Jehlum Motors and Electronics

Dealers in : Philips, Whirlpool, Samsung, LG., Eroclean, Rockwell, Kenstar, Usha, Exide, Khaitan, Sony Etc.

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Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir PM calls on Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Independent Kashmir not possible: PAJKK leader

Sardar Qayoom Khan, a former President and Prime Minister of Pakistan-administered Jammu & Kashmir (PAJK), met with former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi on September 22, 2005. 

The meeting was a courtesy call held at Vajpayee's residence, which Sardar Qayoom Khan requested because he was a "big fan" of the former Indian Prime Minister. Khan noted that he had not been able to meet Vajpayee during his 1999 visit to Lahore. 

Key attendees and context of the meeting:

Attendees: Besides Qayoom Khan and Vajpayee, Indian leaders such as Lal Krishna Advani (then BJP president), Jaswant Singh, and Brajesh Mishra were also present.

Context: The meeting occurred while Sardar Qayoom Khan was in New Delhi to participate in "heart-to-heart deliberations" with Kashmiri leaders from the Indian side of the Line of Control, hosted by the Indian Council of World Affairs and the National Panther's Party.

Significance: The meeting was considered a significant diplomatic development, as it was one of the few times major political figures from both sides of the LoC met after several years, as part of broader peace efforts between India and Pakistan. 

Sardar Qayoom Khan was a key figure in the "Intra J&K 'Heart to Heart' Talks" and was the only PAJK leader who had interacted with the BJP leadership, including Vajpayee and Advani, in New Delhi. 

26/11: The Night Mumbai Will Never Forget

26/11 Mumbai Attacks

The night of 26/11
— Mumbai was burning.
Marine Drive was ablaze with fire and blood,
taxis were overturned, hotels were ablaze,
and television studios were filled with a single cry—
"Terrorists... Pakistan... Jihad..."
But one man stood alone on the map of India,
who defined terrorism not by religion but by evidence.
That man was #Hemant_Karkare.

#Flashback
A few months earlier, Karkare had opened a case
that was enough to shake the nation.
The perpetrator of the bloody blasts turned out not to be a Muslim...
but a deep network of saffron fundamentalism was discovered.
When those names first surfaced—
a sadhvi, an army officer, faces of religious organizations—
many faces turned pale.
The media, too, had shouted on the first day:
"This was the new face of terrorism!"
But the very next day, the atmosphere changed.
Some channels went silent,
Some politicians became feverish,
and Karkare began receiving calls from all quarters:
"Leave this case there..."
"These people are big..."
"This is not in the country's interest..."
But Karkare's problem was that
he put the country above the individual.
He began to delve deeper into the case: phone data, the sources of explosives, funding,
meeting places, banking—
and gradually the picture became clearer.
Clear enough to instill fear.
Fear not just among the criminals...
but also among those who never sit in the criminal's chair—only those who pull the strings behind the scenes.
Every Indian was in shock,
but the files in Karkare's case also began to burn—
not literally, but systematically.
Documents that should have been in 100 copies
suddenly went missing.
Witnesses began receiving "notices."
Some officers were removed from the case.
And Karkare started receiving messages.
#Flashback_Ends
---And then—26/11 began.
“This is an attack on the country, you should leave the other case and handle this one.”
Karkare understood—
this attack wasn't just on the city,
it was also on the truth.
Still, he left.
He wore a bulletproof jacket—
but the same jacket that the ATS itself had previously described as “poor quality.”
Why was he given that?
His vehicle was sent on the same route
that everyone in the control room had called the most dangerous.
Yet why was that route finalized?
A few minutes later, shots were fired.
The book writes—
The angle of the bullets was extremely strange.
The hit points didn't match the “expected direction.”
The biggest shock—
Karkare's jacket later “disappeared.”
No one knows how.
The jacket is evidence—
Who needed its disappearance?
And then…
The case Karkare held onto until his death—
was slowly shelved.
Names were changed, statements were altered,
charges were "weakened,"
and slowly—the system won.
▪️
--- But the story doesn't end there.
The real game begins after Karkare's death.
The book says—
On the day of Karkare's funeral, some faces showed relief, not grief.
Who were those faces?
Who found solace in Karkare's death?
Who felt victory, not defeat, that night?
And the most frightening question—
Was 26/11 just a terrorist attack,
or a confluence of two agendas?
First—to intimidate India.
Second—to eliminate an officer
who had reached the bottom of the truth.
▪️▪️
The fires of Karkare's funeral hadn't even cooled down...
But some people looked deeply relieved.
The nation was weeping on TV,
but the real players behind the issue—their inner circle—looked "normal."
There was even a hint of triumph on some faces.
This was enough to understand that
Karkare's death wasn't just the terrorists' work accomplished...
someone else's work was also accomplished.
--- The first attack—on the very case Karkare was investigating.
Just eight days after Karkare's death,
the direction of that case changed completely.
Some major claims are found in the book:
Witnesses who had previously provided detailed information about the blasts and the network suddenly began changing their statements.
They suddenly said in court, "We don't remember... We spoke under pressure."
The book asks this question:
Why wasn't this "pressure" there before?
Why did it suddenly arise only after Karkare's death?
- The evidence against the main accused was declared weak.
The evidence on which Karkare had built his case—evidence, call records, motorcycle number, delivery of explosives—
Suddenly, it was declared:
"His credibility is low."
Sudden promotions and transfers of some officers.
Those who were "stuck" in the case—sidelined.
And those who wanted a safe path—promoted.
The system understood—
Karkare is gone, every turn is now easy.
--- A very scary thing is written in the book:
After Karkare's death,
a new sentence started playing on TV—
"Karkare was a good officer, but he had taken the investigation in the wrong direction."
Hearing this sentence, the real game becomes clear.
Meaning:
First, make him a hero,
Then gradually cast doubt on his investigation, and finally change the core of the case.

This is called—
Assassination of direction, not character.
--- And then the shock that numbs the mind
One of the most important documents in Karkare's files was a taping list
which recorded names, call timings, and secret meetings.
The book claims—
that list disappeared from the files after Karkare's death.
Meaning:
Someone went and touched the files.
And it couldn't have been a small person.
.
.
--- But the real fear—is in the "calm faces"
When Karkare was alive,
many people spoke against him,
but when he died—
some of those same people cried the loudest.
Why?
The book says a line that trembles:
"The truth behind real tears is more dangerous than the truth behind fake smiles."
(Fake tears are more dangerous than genuine smiles.)
Meaning—
Those who feared Karkare's survival,
by showing respect after his death,
were spared their own suspicions.
--And finally—the climax of the book

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'Fidayeen attack is martyrdom operation,' justifies Delhi bomber in video

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Dozens of Kashmiri Muslim doctors were taken into custody for questioning in the Delhi blast case and almost all of them have been released by the police after questioning. No evidence was found against them linking them to any of the blast suspects.

The Jammu and Kashmir police have recovered a mobile phone of the Red Fort suicide bomber, Dr Umar-un-Nabi, and the extracted data has provided chilling evidence to show that he had prepared a video justifying the suicide attack as a 'martyrdom operation'.

Dr Umar Mohammad alias Umar-un-Nabi

More info : https://www.rediff.com/news/report/delhi-car-bombers-phone-data-reveals-radicalisation-suicide-plans/20251118.htm

New Delhi:

A week after a blast near Delhi's iconic Red Fort claimed 13 lives, a self-recorded and undated video of the bomber, Dr Umar Mohammad alias Umar-un-Nabi, has emerged. In what is arguably the first peek into the thought process of Delhi bomber Dr Umar Mohammad alias Umar-un-Nabi, the video shows him talking about suicide bombing and "martyrdom".

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/video-delhi-bomber-dr-umar-mohammad-umar-nabi-talks-about-suicide-bombing-delhi-i20-car-blast-red-fort-blast-9654215

Demolishing a home won’t deliver “punishment” it only inflicts collective suffering: Aga Ruhullah Mehdi

Making an entire family homeless during the harsh winter of Kashmir without evidence/court order or any law linking them to the incident is an act of cruelty. It doesn’t bring justice to the innocent lives that we lost in the terror attack, and it doesn’t achieve the ends of justice.

Hold the actual perpetrators accountable through lawful investigation. Mass detentions, coercive interrogations, and illegal demolitions will not bring peace, they will drag Kashmir back by decades.