KISHTWAR: High returns of Integrated Farming have become another attraction for the cultivators of high end Saffron crop in this mountainous district of Kishtwar. Together with the Saffron, a high-value commercial/export crop being grown in a few pockets, the farmers are undertaking mushroom cultivation, Bee Keeping, Protected Vegetable growing with special focus on local specialties […]
JAMMU: Divisional commissioner Jammu, Sanjiv Verma today reviewed the supply and stock position of Petrol diesel and LPG in Jammu division here at a meeting with the senior functionaries of the Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department and Oil Company representatives. Among others, the meeting was attended by Director FCS&CA Jammu, Jatinder Singh and […]
UDHAMPUR: Intensifying its drive to protect the Consumers from exploitation by the unscrupulous traders, a team of Legal Metrology Department, headed by Assistant Controller Legal Metrology Ajay Kumar, conducted an extensive market checking in Udhampur and adjoining areas. During inspection, packages of Stellar Mathematical Drawing Instrument box Marketed by the M/S A W Faber Castell […]
Srinagar: While online sales of many businesses picked up during the coronavirus lockdown, traditional Kashmiri artisans found no customers on the web portal the government had set up for them in the form of a “virtual fair”. Artisans who would sell their goods through the government’s handicrafts department were told to put up their artefacts […]
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left key interest rates unchanged on Friday but signalled more easing ahead to support an economy that it sees contracting 9.5 per cent in the current fiscal. The six-member Monetary Policy Committee, with three newly inducted external members, voted unanimously to retain the benchmark repurchase or repo rate […]
SRINAGAR: In order to provide direct marketing support to maximum number of artisans and weavers of Jammu and Kashmir who have been distressed due to Covid-19 pandemic, the Handicrafts & Handloom Department, Kashmir, is organizing a Craft Mela from October 13 at Numaish Gah (Kashmir Haat), Srinagar, on rotational basis. The Department has urged civil […]
SRINAGAR: Director Horticulture Kashmir Ajaz Ahmad Bhat today inaugurated Mini Grading Line at Lassipora, Pulwama and Zawoora Shopian. He also visited Pulwama and Shopian where harvest season of Apple crop is going on, and directed Horticulture field staff to aware the public for proper scientific harvesting methods. The Director informed that practice of grading yields […]
Mumbai: HDFC Bank today took its festive offers to the most remote parts of the country. It launched the semi-urban and rural phase of ‘Festive Treats’, its annual financial services dhamaka through the Government of India’s Common Service Centres (CSC)network. Through the network of 1.2lakh village level entrepreneurs (VLEs) enrolled with CSC, customers in these […]
New Delhi: Gold prices rose Rs 236 to Rs 51,558 per 10 gram in the national capital on Friday following a positive trend in the international market, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, gold had closed at Rs 51,322 per 10 gram. Silver prices also jumped Rs 376 to Rs 62,775 per kilogram […]
JAMMU: Commissioner Secretary, Industries & Commerce Department, Manoj Kumar Dwivedi, today reviewed progress on relief and revival package for revival of business sector of Jammu and Kashmir announced by Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, on the basis of a report of the Committee constituted for the same. Dwivedi dealt with all the points of action pertaining […]
