PAMPORE: After authorities acted tuft against butchers in saffron town Pampore of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, the butchers on Sunday started selling mutton at government approved rates. The J&K administration recently fixed mutton rates at Rs 480 a kilogram. The rates were fixed after consumers complained about exorbitant mutton rates. However, mutton dealers had objected […]
Bhaderwah: In an effort to help promote winter tourism in this picturesque valley of Jammu and Kashmir Doda district, the University of Jammu on Sunday started a 10-day ‘visit to hidden glaciers’ trekking expedition here. The expedition, in which 40 trekkers drawn from the Jammu university and its affiliated colleges besides 10 staff members and […]
Prizes given away to winners, Deptt welcomes tourists from Maharashtra SRINAGAR: The two day Ethnic Food Festival organised by Tourism Department concluded today with distribution of prizes and commendations among the winning and participating women. The prizes were distributed among the winners by Director, Tourism, Kashmir, Nisar Ahmad Wani, at a colourful event. Shameema Akhtar, […]
GANDERBAL: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Ganderbal, Shafqat Iqbal today chaired a meeting of line departments to discuss the measures for curbing the menace of illegal extraction of Minerals in the district. The DC exhorted upon all the concerned to constitute a team comprising of officials from all line departments and make comprehensive strategy to curb […]
New Delhi: Tata Steel has tested coking coal samples from Russia for making steel through the blast furnace route, its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer T V Narendran said. The development assumes significance in the domestic steel industry as a fruitful result of the experiment would break the monopoly of Australia in coking coal […]
ANANTNAG: The District Development Commissioner (DDC) Anantnag, K.K. Sidha who is also Chairman District Level Task Force Committee for J&K Rural Employment Generation Programme today held an interaction cum counselling session with prospective entrepreneurs at District Industries Center (DIC), here. These prospective entrepreneurs had applied for financial assistance during recently concluded third phase of Back […]
JAMMU: One day Farmers’ Awareness Meet on Sustainable Livestock-Crop Production System for Improving Livelihood of Farmers was today organized by SKUAST-Jammu, here at Chatha farm-Bhour Camp (Panchayat Bhawan/ghar). The event was supported by the project of Women Scientist Scheme-B (WOS-B, DST, GOI) and was organized to disseminate knowledge about various sustainable practices regarding animals and […]
New Delhi: Petrol price on Sunday was hiked by 8 paise per litre and diesel by 19 paise, the third straight day of increase in rates as the firming international oil rates broke a nearly two-month-long hiatus in price revision. Petrol price in Delhi was hiked to Rs 81.46 per litre from Rs 81.38, according […]
Srinagar: SKUAST-Kashmir is aggressively pursuing the goal of not only doubling the farmers income, but increasing its manifold to boost the overall economy. Stating this during the Scientist-Media Meet at Shalimar Campus Prof. Mushtaq Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor SKUAST-Kashmir said that the university is aggressively pursuing their mandate of research to come up with technologies adaptable to […]
Dr Ninghthoujam of Imperial College London delivers talk on using microwave technology for vegetation properties Srinagar: Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir organised an international webinar on microwave remote sensing for assessing vegetation properties by Dr Ramesh Ninghthoujam, a Remote Sensing Scientist at Imperial College London. The webinar was the first of a […]