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Kashmir Walnut Harvest Turns Deadly: Four Workers Die in Tree Falls as Safety Concerns Grow

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Kashmir Walnut Harvest Turns Deadly: Four Workers Die in Tree Falls as Safety Concerns Grow

Kashmir’s Walnut Harvest Turns Deadly Again: Four Workers Die as Farmers Demand Safer Orchards By: News Desk | 03 September 2026 Four fatal falls in Qazigund, Tral, Uri and Pulwama at the start of the 2026 walnut season have revived a long-standing question: why does harvesting one of Kashmir’s most valuable crops still require workers to climb trees 40–75 feet high with little protection? Srinagar: The first walnuts of autumn should normally signal the beginning of one of Kashmir’s most important agricultural seasons. Instead, this year’s harvest has opened with…

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Ramban Bus Assault: Construction Employees Targeted by Masked Assailants

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Ramban Bus Assault: Construction Employees Targeted by Masked Assailants

Four construction firm employees injured in attack on bus by ‘masked men’ in Ramban Four employees of a construction company sustained minor injuries in an attack on a bus carrying them to a project site in J&Ks Ramban district on Wednesday. The incident led to the detention of eight individuals who are currently being interrogated, according to officials. The bus, which was en route to a tunnelling project site in Marog, was intercepted by masked assailants at Seri in the evening. The attackers boarded the vehicle and began assaulting its…

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Forty workers feared trapped as tunnel collapses in Uttarkashi

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Forty workers feared trapped as tunnel collapses in Uttarkashi

A portion of a tunnel under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on Brahmakhal-Yamunotri highway in Uttarkashi district collapsed. At least 36 workers were reportedly trapped after a portion of a tunnel under construction between Silkyara and Dandalgaon on the Brahmakhal-Yamunotri national highway in Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand collapsed in the early hours of Sunday. Police said the incident took place around 4am when a 150-metre-long portion of the four-and-a-half-kilometer-long tunnel collapsed. As soon as information about the incident was received, Uttarkashi Superintendent of Police Arpan Yaduvanshi immediately reached the spot…

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