Asks to identify lands along NH for establishing farmers’ markets
Asks to identify lands along NH for establishing farmers’ markets JAMMU: Principal Secretary, Agriculture Production and Horticulture, Navin Kumar Choudhary, today convened a meeting to review the physical and financial achievements of Agriculture and Horticulture departments. Director, Agriculture Jammu, Inder Jeet, Director Horticulture Jammu Ram Sevak, Director Command Area Development, Smita Sethi besides senior officers […]
New Delhi: Gold price rose by Rs 418 to Rs 52,963 per 10 grams in the national capital on Tuesday following a rally in the yellow metal in the international market, according to HDFC Securities. The precious metal had closed at Rs 52,545 per 10 grams in the previous trade. Silver also attracted heavy buying […]
Srinagar: President Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries KCCI Sheikh Ashiq Tuesday strongly projected demand for a comprehensive economic revival package for Kashmir with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The meeting was attended by other business heads of Jammu also and started at 4 PM on WebEx platform called for revival of business activities in […]
ANANTNAG: District Development Commissioner (DDC) Anantnag, K.K.Sidha Tuesday convened a meeting of Revenue, Horticulture and JKHMPC officers for establishment of temporary Fruit Mandi at Nanil on private land. He asked the concerned Tehsildar to submit the title and status of the identified 07 Kanals of land to facilitate fruit growers for selling their apple crop […]
SRINAGAR: Larsen & Toubro (L&T), India’s leading engineering, technology,construction and financial services conglomerate, today announced the closure of the strategic divestment of its Electrical & Automation (L&T E&A) business to Schneider Electric, a global player in energy management and automation. The significant and complex divestment deal, one of its kind in India announced in May […]
SRINAGAR: The 4th meeting of the Committee constituted for exploring the ways and means for revival of the business sector in Jammu and Kashmir was held today under the Chairmanship of Advisor to Lt Governor, KK Sharma. Members of the Committee including Financial Commissioner, Finance, Dr Arun Mehta, Commissioner/ Secretary Tourism, Zubair Ahmad, Chairman, Jammu […]
SRINAGAR: PhonePe will enable digital payments acceptance for over 25 million small merchants over the course of a year, including kirana store owners across 5,500 talukas. The company will hire a 10,000 on-ground fleet for this. Flipkart-owned PhonePe at present has 11 million offline merchants on its platform, as it looks to go deeper into […]
New Delhi: Gold prices rose by Rs 161 to Rs 52,638 per 10 gram in the national capital on Monday amid rupee depreciation, according to HDFC Securities. The precious metal had closed at Rs 52,477 per 10 gram in the previous trade. Silver prices also gained Rs 800 to Rs 68,095 per kg from its […]
Srinagar: SK University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir held a 10-day online national workshop on “Underutilised Plant Species: Future Smart Crops for Food, Nutritional Security and Income Generation”. The workshop was organised by the university’s Division of Vegetable Sciences under All India Coordinated Research Project (Vegetable Crops) Srinagar Centre in collaboration with World Bank-ICAR […]
New Delhi: Contracting for the fifth consecutive month, the output of eight core infrastructure sectors dropped by 9.6 per cent in July due to decline mostly in production of steel, refinery products and cement. The production of eight core sectors had expanded by 2.6 per cent in July 2019, showed data released by the Commerce […]