SRINAGAR: Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production and Farmers Welfare Department, Navin Kumar Choudhary, Tuesday held an interactive session with the organic vegetable growers at Agriculture Complex Lal Mandi besides inspecting the recently inaugurated Organic Vegetable Sale centre. While interacting with the growers and officers, the Principal Secretary informed that the department is focusing on providing better […]
BUDGAM: District Development Commissioner Budgam, Shahbaz Ahmed Mirza Tuesday chaired a meeting to review the progress of developmental schemes under District CAPEX, NABARD and Languishing Projects. Speaking on the occasion, the DDC stressed that in view of the ensuing winter season, all the pending projects and works should be completed within the stipulated time on […]
SRINAGAR: A series of webinars, organised by the Directorate of Industries and Commerce to reach out to entrepreneurs and ensure better coordination among the unit holders and District Industries Centers, concluded here today. The event, which covered all the 10 districts, focused on educating the unit holders about various industrial schemes, importance of GEM registration, […]
SRINAGAR: A deputation of Pesticide dealers Association headed by Syed Mohammad Yousuf today called on Director Horticulture Kashmir, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat and apprised him of their issues. They said that results of the samples drawn at the premises of the distributor which usually is received after six months should be expedited and it should be […]
Farmers’ protests in Punjab hit supply by rail; fuel being transported by road now Srinagar: Protests against the centre’s new farm bills in Punjab have disrupted supply of petroleum products through railway services to Jammu and Kashmir, the visible signs of which were seen on Monday at empty petrol pumps in many parts of Kashmir. […]
Shopian: Given the decline in production and the majority of the apple crop affected by fungal diseases this year, the cold storage units in Kashmir are lying empty. Even some stores are yet to get the first box of this year’s apple for storage. Kashmir has about 30 cold storage units having capacity to store […]
New Delhi: Stung by coronavirus pandemic, the industrial production contracted by 8 per cent in August, mainly due to lower output of manufacturing, mining and power generation sectors, official data showed on Monday. According to the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) data, manufacturing sector production registered a decline of 8.6 per cent, while the output […]
REASI: The cultivation of Lemon grass has become a new profitable venture for the farmers of Reasi district as the oil extracted from it has huge demand in the market. The commercial cultivation of the lemon grass is also helping the farmers of Katra area to prevent the losses caused by monkeys, which has become […]
SRINAGAR: Texesy Technologies Private Limited opened a new branch in Srinagar on Monday during an impressive function.The inaugural function was held at Sonwar Srinagar. Zonal Head JK Bank, Syed Rayees Maqbool was Chief guest while as Yugal Kumar SSP CID Tec, JK Police was guest of honour on the occasion. “Today’s Texesy unit was inaugurated, […]
NEW DElHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman on Monday announced leave travel concession (LTC) cash voucher scheme to stimulate consumer spending. “Indications are that savings of government and organized sector employees have increased. So, we want to incentivize such people to boost demand for the benefit of the less fortunate,” FM said. Under LTC cash voucher […]
