SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Wednesday launched ‘SAATH’, a rural women enterprise acceleration programme here at SKICC. Under this initiative of the Jammu and Kashmir Rural Livelihoods Mission (UMEED), the SHG women entrepreneurs will be provided mentoring and handholding through intensive training and capacity building workshops for up-scaling their business ventures. 5000 women will participate […]
KULGAM: The Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal today visited Organic Vegetable Cluster Wanigund Qoimoh, Kulgam. On the occasion, the Director visited various fields of the Cluster, where he interacted with a number of individuals and delegations of the organic farmers. He passed on spot instructions to the concerned officers of the Kulgam district, asking […]
Inaugurates Electric Bike Showroom PULWAMA: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Pulwama, Baseerul Haq Choudhary today said that the commutation by electric/green vehicles and two wheelers is sustainable and this mode of mobility will shape the future of the automobile industry. The DC said this while inaugurating an electric bike showroom near Degree College, here. Choudhary further […]
New Delhi: The prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cooking gas cylinders across all categories including subsidised gas on Wednesday were hiked by Rs 25 per cylinder — the third straight increase in rates in less than two months. Subsidised as well as non-subsidised LPG now costs Rs 884.50 per 14.2-kg cylinder in Delhi, according […]
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the government over the rising price of domestic cooking gas, diesel and petrol, and alleged that an amount of Rs 23 lakh crore has been earned by increasing prices of these commodities in the last seven years. He also alleged that while sections such as farmers, […]
New Delhi: Gold in the national capital on Wednesday witnessed a muted trend and was marginally down by Rs 6 to Rs 46,123 per 10 gram, according to HDFC Securities. The precious metal had in the previous trade closed at Rs 46,129 per 10 gram. Silver dipped Rs 515 to Rs 61,821 per kilogram from […]
New Delhi: Signalling accelerating economic activity, GST collection topped the Rs 1-lakh-crore mark for the second straight month in August at Rs 1.12 lakh crore. The tax collections in August on goods sold and services rendered was 30 per cent higher than Rs 86,449 crore collected in August 2020, and 14 per cent higher than […]
Director Fisheries Dept conducts 3 day tour of Kishtwar district KISHTWAR Director Fisheries Jammu & Kashmir, Bashir Ahmed Bhat stocked about 40,000 trout fish seeds in natural water bodies /trout streams of Warwan and Marwah area during his three day tour of District Kishtwar. He was accompanied by Joint Director Fisheries (Chenab Valley) M. A. […]
NEW Delhi: The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has on Monday released an amount of Rs. 13,385.70 crore to 25 States for providing grants to the Rural Local Bodies. This Grant-in-aid is the 1st installment of Tied grants of the year 2021-22. The grants have been released as per the recommendations of the 15th […]
SRINAGAR: Principal Secretary Agriculture Production & Farmers Welfare Department, Navin Kumar Choudhary, today inaugurated the sale of seedlings of different vegetable crops produced purely on scientific lines in High Tech Polygreen Houses at Lal Mandi, Srinagar. The sale witnessed tremendous enthusiasm of people with overwhelming participation, not only from Srinagar but also from far-flung areas […]