Seed Certification System goes digital in J&K with launch of SATHI portal

SRINAGAR: Continuing its efforts to strengthen the farmer welfare programmes and develop agriculture sector across J&K, two State Seed Certification Agencies of Jammu/Kashmir will go digital via Centralized Online Seed Traceability Portal SATHI (Seed Authentication, Traceability & Holistic Inventory). This was expressed by Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department (APD), Atal Dulloo, during the […]

33rd Police Public Mela- Make perfect arrangements to make mela a huge success: DGP

Jammu: Director General of Police J&K Dilbag Singh on Tuesday chaired officers meeting to review the arrangements for the 33rd Police Public Mela, being held at Gulshan Ground on 19th of this month. The DGP while speaking on the occasion directed for proper arrangements for the people visiting the event particularly for the aged citizens. […]

Deptt ensuring sufficient quantity of seedlings for farmers: Dir Agri

Srinagar: Director Agriculture Kashmir Chowdhury Mohammad Iqbal on Tuesday visited seed multiplication farm tapper kreeri and took stock of agriculture activities related to various rabi crops (including carrot, turnip, methi, etc.) and preparations for the distribution of seedlings of different vegetable crops(including Hybrid knol-khol, cabbage, cauliflower, bottle guard, cucumber, bitter guard, Squash, tomato and brinjal) […]

‘Rich cultural heritage of J&K is its biggest asset, needs to be revived’

JAMMU: All heritage sites and other protected monuments must be renovated and given facelift on mission mode while ensuring that their aesthetics and sanctity are not compromised with. The remarks were given by Secretary Culture, Dr Syed Abid Rashid Shah while chairing a meeting to review works of various departments under his ambit at the […]

Red Cross organizes blood donation camp at Lethpora

PULWAMA: Regional Red Cross Branch Kashmir in collaboration with 185 Bn CRPF on Tuesday organized a voluntary Blood Donation camp at Lethpora, here. The camp was conducted under the guidance of Dr Javed Iqbal, Blood Bank Officer Govt L.D. Hospital Srinagar who along with his technical team, Blood Transfusion Deptt took part in the said […]

Khelo India Winter Games at Gulmarg concludes

· Nisith Pramanik distributes medals among winners · J&K transitioned into new era of prosperity, UT players making nation proud: MoS · J&K tops medal tally, bagging 26 Gold, 25 Silver, 25 Bronze medals   GULMARG: The five-day national event of 3rd edition of Khelo India concluded on Tuesday at Gulmarg with a grand function […]

CAT Trashes Pleas Against Selection Of 1540 Junior Assistants

CAT Trashes Pleas Against Selection Of 1540 Junior Assistants

Srinagar: Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) on Monday dismissed as “without merit” several petitions, challenging “normalization process of Equi-Percentile Equating Method” adopted by the JKSSB as regards selection of 1540 posts of Junior Assistant in Jammu and Kashmir. “In the present OA (Aboriginal Application), the applicants have challenged the decision of the respondents (JKSSB) in applying […]

Night Temp Plummets In J&K, Minus 10°C In Pahalgam

Night Temp Plummets In J&K, Minus 10°C In Pahalgam

Srinagar: The minimum temperatures recorded a plunge in Kashmir Valley with Srinagar recording minus 4.0°C on Monday. A meteorological department official said that there was a drop of 3.4°C against the previous night’s minus 0.6°C in Srinagar. Today’s minimum temperature, he said, was below normal by 0.8°C for the summer capital. Qazigund, he said, recorded […]

Bridge collapses in Reasi, 2 injured

Bridge collapses in Reasi, 2 injured

Jammu: Two truck drivers were injured when a vital bridge over a rivulet collapsed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, officials said on Monday. The bridge over the Badora rivulet, linking Mahore and Chassana, ostensibly collapsed under the weight of loaded trucks on their way to nearby Rajouri district on Sunday, they said. Both the […]