Mumbai: The rupee depreciated by 7 paise to close at 73.61 against the US dollar on Friday due to dollar buying by banks possibly on the behalf of the Reserve Bank. At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened weak at 73.62 against the US dollar and remained under pressure for the most part […]
SRINAGAR: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Farooq Khan, today sanctioned a financial assistance worth Rs 2.50 crore in favour of construction workers and dependents under Death-cum-Funeral Assistance and Chronic Diseases Financial Assistance Scheme. Under the Schemes, Advisor Khan gave approval to 110 cases including 90 death cases and 20 chronic diseases and injury cases. The sanctioned […]
Srinagar: The Kashmir Trade Alliance today said they were facing discrimination and harassment at the hands of the State Tax Department. President Kashmir Trade Alliance Aijaz Shahdhar said they were receiving complaints from several traders that they were being harassed. “We are anguished over the harassment of traders by autocratic officials of the State Tax […]
Shopian: Though the government has reintroduced the market intervention scheme (MIS), orchardists and fruit traders call this move too late as most of this year’s produce has either been already sold in markets or stored in cold chains in different parts of Kashmir. Orchardists said that the apple crop this year was the lowest in […]
Chief Secretary reviews ‘One District-One Product’ scheme Special package under ABA to boost micro food processing SRINAGAR: The Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam today chaired a meeting of the Apex Level Approval Committee (ALAC) to review the rollout of the ‘One District-One Product’ component of the ‘Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises’ (FME) scheme […]
SRINAGAR: The Director Law Enforcement Agriculture Production & Farmer’s Welfare Department J&K Abdul Rahim Samoon Thursday convened a meeting of Law Enforcement Officers of all districts to review the overall working of the Law Enforcement agency of Kashmir Division at Agriculture Complex Lalmandi Srinagar. The Director took the stock of progress of the Enforcement Officers […]
Srinagar: The role of J&K Bank was appreciated by various senior government functionaries during the two-day ‘My Town, My Pride’ programheld across all the towns of the Union Territory. The officials lauded J&K Bank for its role in empowering people on economic and social front. J&K Bank had set up its stalls across the UT […]
KULGAM: District Level Export Promotion Committee (DLEPC) meet was held today under the Chairmanship of District Development Commissioner (DDC) Kulgam, Showkat Aijaz Bhat. During the meeting potential items/products were identified for export promotion. Among others, the meeting was attended by General Manager Industries, Chief Accounts Officer, Chief Horticulture Officer, District Sheep Husbandry Officer, Lead District […]
SRINAGAR: Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology Kashmir(SKUAST-K), Shalimar is holding ten days online international training programme on “Climate Risk Assessment and its Management through Agro meteorological Approaches” from 21st October, 2020. In this regard, the inaugural function of the training program was organized yesterday at 5:30 PM (IST) through online mode comprising of […]
NEW DELHI: The parliamentary committee on Labour on Wednesday raised doubts about the step taken by the union government to make investments from EPF corpus during the coronavirus pandemic. The issue came for discussion on Wednesday and the standing committee has asked the officials to submit all the replies in writing after found to be […]