New Delhi: A daily average of 13,555 trains are operating in India currently, and 37 per cent of these are being hauled by diesel locomotives, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday. The remaining 63 per cent are hauled by electric engines, he stated in a written response to a question in Rajya Sabha. As […]
SRINAGAR: Director, Rural Development (RDD) Kashmir, Tariq Ahmad Zargar Friday chaired a meeting through Video Conferencing to review the implementation progress of RDD schemes in Kashmir Division. ACDs, ACPs and DPOs besides Executive Engineers (REW) and other officers were present in the meeting. Status of flagship programmes including MGNREGA, PMAY-G and 14th FCA besides progress […]
SKUAST-K’s World Soil Day commemoration function concludes Srinagar: The rate of soil erosion in Jammu and Kashmir is very high and it needs to be arrested, deputy director general (DDG) for Division of Natural Resource Management, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Dr Suresh Kumar Chaudhari said. “Places like Jammu and Kashmir, where the hilly […]
SRINAGAR: The Directorate of General Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce, and The Federation of Indian Export organization (FIEO)in association with The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce & Industry organized seminar on “District As Export Hub-Promotion Training Programme” at Srinagar today on the9th of December, 2021. Sukhdev Banerjee ,Asstt. Director General of Foreign Trade, Ms. Aruna Narula, […]
PULWAMA: The Additional District Development Commissioner (ADDC) Pulwama, Dr Sheikh Ab Aziz inaugurated the installation of Solar Power Agriculture Pump under (PM-KUSUM) scheme for upliftment of farmers at District Administrative Complex, here. The ADDC emphasized on the importance of the PM-KUSUM scheme for the farmers, providing them a day-time reliable source of power for irrigation […]
KISHTWAR: In continuation to the ongoing outreach programmes of the Income Tax Department & CGST departments across the UT of J&K and Ladakh, an Outreach Programme & Interactive Session was today organised for stakeholders here at Conference Hall, DC Office Complex. The function was chaired by Pr. Commissioner, CGST, Jammu M.K. Rustogi and presided by […]
Kolkata: Coal India Ltd on Thursday said it does not foresee any shortage of dry fuel for power producers till March 2022 as it is focusing on ramping up production to secure a stock of about 70 million tonne by end of the current fiscal. Around 100 million tonne of pithead stock, which was carried […]
New Delhi: Gold prices slipped marginally by Rs 6 to Rs 47,156 per 10 gram in the national capital on Thursday on mixed global cues, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had settled at Rs 47,162 per 10 grams. Silver also declined by Rs 158 to Rs 60,230 per kg […]
New Delhi: Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s premier communications solutions provider, today announced the launch of ‘Airtel India Startup Innovation Challenge’ in partnership with Invest India. As part of the ‘Startup Innovation Challenge’ early stage technology companies are invited to demonstrate differentiated solutions in the 5G – Innovative B2C or B2B use cases and applications that […]
Mumbai: The rupee on Thursday declined by 10 paise to settle at a 16-month low of 75.60 against the US dollar amid foreign fund outflows from equities and a firm greenback in the overseas markets. Besides, concerns over the impact of new COVID variant on the global economy also weighed on investor sentiments, traders said. […]