HDFC Bank conducts secure banking workshop for J&K Police & District Administration

Srinagar: HDFC Bank Ltd, Saturday conducted a secure banking workshop under the on-going ‘Mooh Bandh Rakho’ campaign for J&K police and local district administration. Mooh Band Rakho campaign aims to create awareness on cyber frauds and ways to prevent them. The digital workshop was attended by Tahir Ashraf, SSP Incharge, Cybercrime, Jammu & Kashmir Police […]

Director Horticulture reviews Performance of deptt in Jammu division

JAMMU: Director Horticulture Jammu Ram Savak, today chaired a meeting of Chief Horticulture Officers and Horticulture Development Officers to review the progress under various developmental activities being carried out during the current financial year in Jammu Division. He asked the officers to submit the detail of plantation made under CAPEX budget / MIDH schemes / […]

Allen Career Institute launches its maiden Centre in Kashmir capital Srinagar

Srinagar: Kota based ALLEN Career Institute Saturday formally opened its Srinagar Centre in Naseembagh area. President Private Schools Association GN Var supervised the grand inauguration ceremony. Allen Career Institute was recently in news after one of its students Soyeb Aftab scored a perfect 720/720 this Season in NEET. After the inauguration ceremony, Soyeb Aftab told […]

Cold storage business down by 40% this year in Kashmir

Cold storage business down by 40% this year in Kashmir

Shopian: Factors such as low crop yield, fungal diseases damaging the fruit, and increase in number of new units have together led to the cold storage business in Kashmir being down by 40 percent this year. Cold storage owners say that the monthly cold storage charges have also declined by 10 rupees per box. The […]

International outreach program for JK’s Saffron Industry held for connecting buyers from New York

JAMMU: The Consulate General of India, New York in association with Jammu and Kashmir Trade Promotion Organisation (JKTPO) and US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) organized a virtual International outreach programme cum conference to promote export of Saffron of JK. The event, which was aimed at to increase the export of this globally renowned spice in […]

MRCFC, SKUAST-K conducts seed/ input distribution cum training programme on SRP technologies

SRINAGAR: A Seed/input distribution cum one day training programme on Scientific Rice Production (SRP) Technologies under Tribal Sub Plan-Rice of All India Coordinated Research Project on Rice (AICRIP-Rice), was conducted here at Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops (MRCFC) Khudwani, SKUAST Kashmir on Thursday. The programme was sponsored by ICAR-IIRR Hyderabad, and Ministry of Agriculture […]

Coaching centre in Shopian starts NEET coaching

Students say has helped them lower expenses, two qualify this year Shopian: A coaching centre in Shopian has set an example by starting NEET coaching for the first time in the district and among seven students of it’s first batch, two have qualified for NEET and JEE recently. Officials of this coaching centre said that […]

Deputations of tourism stakeholders meet Secy. Tourism

Various activities being undertaken for promotion of tourism: Sarmad Hafiz SRINAGAR: Secretary, Tourism, Culture & Youth Services & Sports, Sarmad Hafiz today said the Department is taking all steps to redress the issues of tourism stakeholders even as various promotional activities have been undertaken since the Unlocking for tourism sector began in Jammu & Kashmir. […]

Arrangements for two day tourism festival ‘Autumn Ethnic Food and Craft Festival’ finalised

SRINAGAR: Director Tourism, Kashmir, Nisar Ahmad Wani today chaired a meeting of concerned officers to finalise arrangements for two day tourism festival ‘Autumn Ethnic Food and Craft Festival,’ here. The tourism festival is scheduled to begin with an event, ‘Ethnic Food Competition’ at Institute of Hotel Management, Srinagar, on November 21, 2020. The local women […]

464 nominations received for phase 3rd in Kupwara

KUPWARA: According to District Panchayat Election Officer (DPEO), Kupwara, Anshul Garg 464 nomination forms have been received for phase 3rd of District Development Council (DDC) and Panchayat by-election in the district. For 2 District Development Council (DDC) constituencies’ viz. Hayhama and Qaziabad, as many as 47 nomination forms have been received for phase three till […]