Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Real Estate, an Immobile Property(in Srinagar, Kashmir)

Real estate or immovable property is a legal term (in some jurisdictions) that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. Real estate (immovable property) is often considered synonymous with real property (also sometimes called realty), in contrast with personal property (also sometimes called chattel or personalty). However, for technical purposes, some people prefer to distinguish real estate, referring to the land and fixtures themselves, from real property, referring to ownership rights over real estate.

The terms real estate and real property are used primarily in common law, while civil law jurisdictions refer instead to immovable property.

In law, the word real means relating to a thing (from Latin res/rei, thing), as distinguished from a person. Thus the law broadly distinguishes between [real property] (land and anything affixed to it) and [personal property] (everything else, e.g., clothing, furniture, money). The conceptual difference was between immovable property, which would transfer title along with the land, and movable property, which a person would retain title to. (The word is not derived from the notion of land having historically been "royal" property. The word royal — and its Castilian cognate real — come from the related Latin word rex-regis, meaning king.)

People cannot buy land in kashmir due to article 370.
When Maharaja Hari Singh acceded to India on 26 October 1947, he ceded to the Dominion Government, powers with regard to the subjects the other Indian States had also delegated to the Dominion. The subjects were listed in the Schedule attached to the Instrument of Accession and included:
Military, air and naval forces of the Dominion, armed forces raised or maintained by the Dominion or maintained by the State operating with any of the armed forces of the Dominion, naval, military and air force works and the administration of the Cantonments arms, ammunition and explosives;
External affairs, treaties, and agreements with other countries, extradition, admission, emigration, expulsion of nationals, regulation of movement of the foreign nationals, pilgrimages to places outside India and nationalization;
Communications, posts and telegraphs, telephones, wireless, broadcasting and other communications, railways, shipping and navigation, admiralty jurisdiction, ports and port authorities of delimitation-ports, port quarantine, air craft and air navigation; aerodromes, air traffic, light houses, beacons, safety for shipping and air craft, carriage of passengers and goods by sea and air and police force of the railways;
Election to the Dominion Legislature, offences against laws with respect to any of the matters transferred to the Dominion of India, inquiries and statistics with regard to these matters and the jurisdiction of all courts with regard to these matters.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Kashmiri Hangul

The Hangul Deer is now only spotted in the northern regions and its population is reduced severely. The isolated Gurez Valley is known to still have a large Hangul Deer population in the wild, but a proposed dam project places this population under threat.

The Hangul Deer or Kashmiri stag is an endangered species of red deer. The Hangul is one of the most famous animals of Jammu & Kashmir. It inhabits the thick forests of Jammu & Kashmir. In the past, Jammu & Kashmir had a large and vibrant population of Hangul Deer. But environmental pressures caused by hunting and loss of habitat from deforestation and dam projects has significantly curbed the wild population of Hangul Deer. Jammu & Kashmir does have one reserve and conservation area for Hangul Deer; the Dachigam National Park, also home to a diversity of wildlife.