Srinagar: Many Kashmiri apple farmers and traders had to skip a heartbeat when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced a 35 percent Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess on the fruit. But Kashmir-based experts think that it would have no impact on the apple industry which brings more than Rs 10,000 crore to Jammu and […]
Srinagar: Most people in Kashmir on Sunday morning had no water to clean, make food, and have tea, because the water supply lines had frozen during the night. The city recorded a low of minus 8.8 degrees Celsius which was further down from the minus 7.2 degrees Celsius a night before. There was not a […]
Srinagar: The fear triggered by the news of bird flu and other diseases in poultry has done what all the initiatives of the Kashmir administration to keep rates of chicken under control could not do. Much to the delight of chicken lovers, the bird is selling these days at only Rs 100 a kg in […]
Srinagar: This coming Tuesday is the second Republic Day since the special status of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state was revoked, yet nothing has changed here. There are the same intense security arrangements around the venues where the day when India adopted its Constitution will be celebrated. An official told Kashmir Reader that security has […]
Srinagar: In less than a month, a second murderous assault has taken place, in broad daylight, in the busy Sarai Bala gold market in Amira Kadal in the heart of Srinagar. This time it was an employee of a gold shop who was attacked, by a man identified as a resident of Budgam district. Station […]
Srinagar: In Jammu and Kashmir the Covid-19 vaccination drive has slowed down, not because of beneficiaries not turning up for the shot but because of the slow speed of internet and backend technical glitches of the Co-WIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Work) app, which registers and monitors the vaccine jab. Officials told Kashmir Reader that since […]
Land identified at Zainpora Shopian for advanced horticulture centre Srinagar: Kashmir will soon produce high-yielding varieties of apples and walnuts, which will prove to be a “game changer”, if plans of the Horticulture department bear fruit. Director of Horticulture in Kashmir, Aijaz Ahmad Bhat said that about four-hundred rupees will be saved per sapling, time […]
People’s Alliance loses People’s Conference; ‘breach of trust’, says Sajad Lone Srinagar: The unity forged by Kashmiri parties in the Public Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) has proved to be short-lived. Just a few months after it was formed, the alliance’s spokesperson Sajad Gani Lone called it quits on Tuesday, citing “breach of trust” as […]
Old trees must make way for new, better varieties: Director of Horticulture Srinagar: The Kashmir Horticulture Department has proposed to remove the ban on cutting of walnut trees in Kashmir Valley. The proposal has been mooted five decades after the ban was imposed in 1969, when the Jammu and Kashmir Preservation of Specified Trees Act […]
No adverse reaction in anyone; SKIMS Director first to take COVISHIELD shot Srinagar: Nearly 10 months after the first Covid-19 positive patient was detected in Kashmir, the first phase of vaccination against the dreaded infection started on Saturday with senior medicos, among them SKIMS Director Dr AG Ahanger, volunteering to be the first recipients. None […]