BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The "Shri Amarnath Ji Yatra" is an annual congregation in which the devotees trek a difficult route of around 40 km to reach to a cave at a height of approximately 14,000 feet at Pahalgam in the State of Jammu & Kashmir, India. These trekkers are subjected to stress and strain of the long mountainous route and difficult security scenario as a result of which they are pro...

SUMMARY Large thrust faults accommodate the convergence between India and Tibet along southern margin of Himalaya have a history producing great earthquakes that cause widespread damage. Along most parts Himalaya, there is geomorphological evidence these thrusts can rupture to surface in Mw >8 earthquakes. However, Himalayan state Jammu & Kashmir (NW India), are blind large-scale fol...

The genus Trypheridium Brancucci, 1985 is endemic to the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region, and currently known from a single species, T. nuristanicum (Wittmer, 1956). Here, reviewed, nom. emend. re-described kashmiricum sp. nov. described Kashmir Region of India. Descriptions, diagnoses, high quality images, distribution maps identification keys are presented. morphology discussed compared with thos...

All previously obtained wolf (Cants lupus) and dog (Cams familiaris) mitochondñal (mt) DNA sequences fall within an intertwined and shallow clade (the 'wolf-dog' clade). We sequenced mtDNA of recent and historical samples from 45 wolves from throughout lowland peninsular India and 23 wolves from the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau and compared these sequences with all available wolf and dog seque...

Studying the areas where minority languages can be strengthened through their use and promotion as functional is crucial right now. The purpose of current research to examine institution media in multilingual communities. Multilingual, multicultural, multiethnic populations found Jammu Kashmir, a union territory India, particularly region Kashmir division. In addition linguistic diversity, ther...

The most recent critical checklists of the Cucurbitaceae of India are 30 years old. Since then, botanical exploration, online availability of specimen images and taxonomic literature, and molecular-phylogenetic studies have led to modified taxon boundaries and geographic ranges. We present a checklist of the Cucurbitaceae of India that treats 400 relevant names and provides information on the c...