The genus Pristosia Motschulsky, 1865 was so far only known to be highly diverse in the North-Western Himalaya and present in the Eastern Himalaya. Only a single female specimen has been documented in the literature from the Nepal Himalaya and was described as P. dahud Morvan, 1994. During a study of comprehensive carabid beetle material collected throughout Nepal, which has been deposited at s...

The Himalaya is one of the major mountain ecosystems that most likely to be impacted by climate change. main drawback in understanding change remote Himalayan lack long-term instrumental records. Reconstructing past climates from tree-rings offers a useful proxy for adding data In this study, climatically sensitive fir (Abies pindrow) were used reconstruction mean June–July temperatures Kashmir...

Himalaya is youngest tectonic Active Mountain and northern boundary of India. Various infrastructure projects are under develop in Himalayan region for the better connectivity peoples national security border line. Widening 295 km National Highway-44 Jammu Kashmir an important developmental project. The highway passes through Outer Higher sequences rocks frequently affected by landslides at var...

Bengal Medical Service. ( Continued from page 209.) People.?The Kashmiris are a remarkably handsome and physically robust race. Their physique, character form a very marked contrast to the rest of the races of British India. Kashmiris proper may be divided into Mahomedans and the " Pundits," who are the Hindu remainder, who have escaped conversion into Mahomedanism. They are all Brahmans. The M...

Aromatic plants have played key roles in the lives of tribal peoples living in the Himalaya by providing products for both food and medicine. This review presents a summary of aromatic medicinal plants from the Indian Himalaya, Nepal, and Bhutan, focusing on plant species for which volatile compositions have been described. The review summarizes 116 aromatic plant species distributed over 26 fa...

The study deals with the enduring conflict between India and Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir since 1947. The ongoing conflict is analyzed as an enduring rivalry; characterized by three major wars (1947-48), 1965, 1971, low intensity military conflict (Siachen), mini war at Kargil (1999), internal insurgency, cross border terrorism. We examine the progress and the status of the dispute, as well ...

Cenozoic convergence between the Indian and Asian plates produced the archetypical continental collision zone comprising the Himalaya mountain belt and the Tibetan Plateau. How and where India-Asia convergence was accommodated after collision at or before 52 Ma remains a long-standing controversy. Since 52 Ma, the two plates have converged up to 3,600 ± 35 km, yet the upper crustal shortening d...