Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Wednesday sought adequate compensation for the hailstorm affected people in district Kupwara saying the heavy downpour has damaged various standing crops in the frontier district. Expressing his deep concern over the massive destruction caused to the standing crops in the frontier district of Kupwara in general and […]
Washington: A newly created global task force of CEOs of top American 40 companies on Wednesday announced an effort to provide massive COVID-19 emergency relief material, including 1,000 ventilators and 25,000 oxygen concentrators, to India in its fight against the coronavirus. India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic with more than 3,00,000 […]
Pampore: Tehsil administration Pampore on Tuesday sealed 16 shops on the Srinagar-Jammu highway at Lethpora area of Pampore Tehsil in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district for violation of lockdown orders. Officials told Kashmir Reader that they were receiving information from people that some dry fruit shops were violating lockdown orders by keeping their shops open in […]
SRINAGAR: The Director Agriculture Kashmir Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal today visited Seed Multiplication Farm (SMF) Padgampora, Pulwama where he inaugurated the Dapog/ MAT Nursery Technology for the preparation of Paddy Nurseries. Dapog/Mat Nursery Technology seedlings are established in a layer of soil mix, arranged on a farm surface (concrete floor/ Polythene sheet/ seedling trays) seedlings are […]
New Delhi: The Department of Telecom on Tuesday approved applications of telecom companies — Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and MTNL — for conducting 5G trials but none of them will be using technologies of Chinese entities. The list of telecom gear makers approved for trials include Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, C-DOT and Reliance Jio’s indigenously […]
New Delhi: Wall Street brokerage Goldman Sachs has lowered its estimate for India’s economic growth to 11.1 per cent in fiscal year to March 31, 2022, as a number of cities and states announced lockdowns of varying intensities to check spread of coronavirus infections. India is suffering the world’s worst outbreak of COVID-19 cases, with […]
New Delhi: Gold gained Rs 97 to Rs 46,758 per 10 gram in the national capital on Tuesday, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at Rs 46,661 per 10 gram. Silver also jumped Rs 1,282 to Rs 70,270 per kilogram from Rs 68,988 per kilogram in the previous […]
New Delhi: Petrol price on Tuesday was increased by 15 paise per litre and diesel by 18 paise as state-owned fuel retailers started passing on the increase in international oil prices to consumers after an 18-day hiatus. Petrol now costs Rs 90.55 per litre in Delhi, up from Rs 90.40, according to a price notification […]
Mumbai: Rising for the second day in a row, the rupee closed 10 paise higher at 73.85 against the US currency on Tuesday on dollar selling by traders. A stronger dollar in the global markets, losses in the domestic equities and high crude oil prices, however, restricted the gain in the local unit. “The Indian […]
JAMMU: Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production and Farmers’ Welfare Department, Navin Kumar Choudhary today chaired a meeting to discuss the implementation of project; ‘Developing Export Oriented Agri & Horti- Enterprises for Enhancing Farmers’ Income in Pristine Himalayan Region of Jammu & Kashmir’ aimed to boost exports of agriculture and horticulture products of Jammu & Kashmir. Director […]