SRINAGAR: Kashmir Traders Federation (KTF), a Srinagar based traders’ body Friday said Kashmiri businessmen dealing with imports are being harassed by the officials on different pretexts at Lakhanpur Check Post. In a written statement mailed to Kashmir Reader, the federation said ‘autocratic’ officers of the state government sitting at the toll post have no sympathy […]
SRINAGAR: The five-day soft skill program for police was concluded on Friday at College of Education here, a police spokesperson said. “Kashmir police needs to reaffirm their commitment towards the legacy of humaneness that they have inherited to deliver better services to the people and, the development of soft skill programme was just an attempt […]
BHADARWAH: Traders’ Assocation Mandir Bazar here while welcoming the decision taken by Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to establish four Medical Colleges and two Cancer hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir has demanded for establishment of medical college proposed for Doda region at Bhadarwah. President of the association while thanking Azad for allotting one Medical […]
SRINAGAR: District Development Commissioner, Bandipora has asked the implementing agency (NHPC) of Kishan Ganga Hydroelectric Project to pay Rs 5 lakh to the families which have lost their properties at Kralpora village here, according to an official statement issued on Friday. To discuss various issues with regard to ongoing Kishan Ganga Hydroelectric Project at Kralpora-Bandipora, […]
NEW DELHI: India is “stuck in a rut” as weaker consumption and stalled investments prevent the economy from building any sort of momentum, HSBC said in a report Friday adding “slow recovery” could start post elections. According to the global financial services major, the year 2014 could thus prove to be a tale of two […]
JAMMU: MoS Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Ajaz Ahmed Khan Thursday said that settlement operations in the state would be completed within five years and all land records would be updated in the given time. He also said compensation has been paid in more than 80 percent land acquisition cases in the state. Winding up the […]
NEW DELHI: Its USD 19 billion buyout of WhatsApp will help Facebook expand footprint in emerging markets of Latin America and Asia, especially India, where the mobile instant messaging app is very popular. Founded in 2009 by Ukrainian Jan Koum and American Brian Acton, Mountain View (California)-headquartered WhatsApp is a Silicon Valley start-up with over […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]