Ford inaugurates ‘Autowings’ sale service facilities in Srinagar, Anantnag

SRINAGAR: Committed to elevate the brand and ownership experience, Ford India Thursday augmented its sales and service network in the Kashmir valley with the inauguration of two facilities of Autowings Ford, a spokesperson of the company said here. “Of the newly inaugurated facilities in Srinagar and south Kashmir’s Anantnag town, Autowings Ford service facility at […]

Lal Path Labs to pay Rs 4 lakh to doc for wrongly diagnosing HIV+

NEW DELHI: Reputed diagnostic pathology lab, Dr Lal Path Labs, has been directed by a Consumer Forum here to pay Rs 4 lakh compensation to a paediatric specialist in an Army hospital for wrongly diagnosing her HIV positive nearly 11 years back. Noting that there were increasing number of complaints against the lab, New Delhi […]

GoI approves Rs 77 cr aid package for HMT

NEW DELHI: Government of India on Thursday announced a financial package of about Rs. 77.4 crore for the state-run HMT Limited and its subsidiary HMT Machine tools Ltd to make payments of salary, wages and statutory dues such as PF and gratuity to its employees. The decision to provide financial assistance to the two public […]

26,418 recruitments by SSRB in 5 years: Govt

Jammu: Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather Thursday said that 26418 job selections in different government department have been made out of 52638 posts referred to Service Selection Recruitment Board (SSRB) since 2009-10. Replying to a question by Abdul Gani Malik in the House, the finance minister informed that with the opening balance of 16659 posts […]

Valley based 2 business ventures selected among India’s top 30 student start-ups

SRINAGAR: Kashmir based business ventures, ‘IAC Software Solutions’ of Waleed Qureshi and ‘Daily Morning Times’, an Urdu newspaper of Syed Shafkat, have been selected among India’s Top 30 student start-ups. The list of top start-ups was announced over the weekend at an award ceremony held in a Bengaluru college. The TATA First Dot powered by […]

Maruti, Hyundai cut prices after excise duty reduction

NEW DELHI: The country’s biggest car makers, Maruti Suzuki IndiaBSE -0.61 % (MSI) and Hyundai Motor India, today cut prices after excise duty on automobiles was reduced in the Interim Budget. While MSI’s price cuts range between Rs 8,502 and Rs 30,984 across its models, Hyundai has slashed prices by between Rs 10,000 and Rs […]

Airtel crosses 200 million subscribers mark in India

SRINAGAR: Bharti Airtel, India’s telecommunication giant, Wednesday said that it has crossed the 200 million mobile subscriber mark in India, further consolidating its leadership position in the world’s second largest mobile market. Airtel is the largest telecom operator in India, both in terms of customers and revenues. The Company ranks as the fourth largest mobile […]

Vodafone awards 100 scholarships to Valley students

SRINAGAR: As part of its Vodafone Delights initiative in J&K, Vodafone India, telecommunications service provider company, awarded scholarships and certificates to over 100 students from the Kashmir Valley. The scholarships were awarded to those who achieved a perfect 10 CGPA score in the CBSE Class 10 exams or scored 90 percent or above marks in […]

BMW launches locally made Rs 43 lakh Gran Turismo in India

SRINAGAR: BMW has launched the all-new BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo in India, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. Locally produced at the BMW Plant Chennai, the all-new BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo will be available at BMW dealerships across India from March 2014. Philipp von Sahr, President, BMW Group India said, “A revolutionary concept, […]

PAG calls on governor, discusses J&K’s audit report

JAMMU: Subash Chander Pandey, Principal Accountant General (PAG), J&K, called on Governor NN Vohra here at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday and explained the salient features of the J&K’s Audit Report for the Financial Year 2013-14, an official statement said. Pandey also briefed the governor about the mechanisms which had been put in place for promoting […]