Left protests price rise

Calls for universalizing PDS

GOWHAR BHAT

Srinagar, Apr 8: As part of its country-wide programme, hundreds of activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist Thursday held protest rallies in Srinagar and Jammu. State general secretary, Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami led the party workers and activists in Jammu, party functionaries informed More

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LoC trade in trouble, Army put spanners

RABIA NOOR

Srinagar, Apr 8: The cross-LoC trade is again landed into trouble. This time it is the Army deployed at the Kaman Post which is allegedly putting spanners into the trade. Sources at the Trade Facilitation Centre Salamabad, Uri, told Greater Kashmir that the Army commanders had asked them More

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40,000 vehicles add to roads every year

‘JK to have scientific transport, traffic management plan soon’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Apr 8: Government has in principle decided to get consultancy from M/S RITES Limited, a pioneering international consultancy for scientific transport and traffic mobility management, to improve and upgrade traffic system in the State.  The Planning and Development Department would More

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CAG flays JK for Rs 71,088 cr mismanagement

Press Trust of India

Jammu Apr 8; Criticising Jammu and Kashmir for poor fiscal management, the country's apex auditor CAG has said the state administration has been continuously failing to "regularise" a whopping Rs 71,088 crore expenditure incurred cumulatively over the period from 1980 through 2008. "The excess More

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‘Govt setting up Apni Mandis to boost rural economy’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Apr 8: To provide better marketing facilities to the vegetable growers at their doorstep, the Department of Agriculture is setting up Apani Mandis under Technology Mission Programme. This, according to an official statement, was stated by Minister for Agriculture,   Ghulam More

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SKUAST to hold 53rd annual maize workshop

GK News Network

Srinagar, Apr 8: The SK University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology is holding the 53rd Annual Maize Workshop in collaboration with Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) from April 10. The three-day event will deliberate and debate various issues concerning production and productivity More

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Centre convenes all states’ meet to check illegal mining

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, Apr 7: The Union government today said it has convened a meeting of all the states this month to evolve a mechanism to curb illegal mining.   Besides seeking a consensus between states for strategically curtailing such mining, it has asked the Indian Railways to check movement More

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Food price inflation scales to 17.7 pc

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, Apr 8: Higher prices of milk, fruits and pulses pushed food inflation to 17.70 per cent for the week ended March 27, fueling expectations that Reserve Bank of India may further tighten rates in its annual monetary policy on April 20.  Food inflation in the previous week stood at 16 More

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Make 2-day shutdown a success: KTMF

Seek support from transporters

GK News Network

Srinagar, Apr 8: Appealing the Valley traders’ fraternity to make the two-day shutdown call from Friday a success, the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers’ Federation today threatened to launch indefinite agitation should the government fail to address “our issues.” The KTMF said it had not withdrawn More

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Sufi calls on Guv

GK News Network

Jammu, Apr 8: Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Amritsar,   Ghulam Rasool Sufi called on governor N N Vohra at Raj Bhavan here today.  Sufi briefed the governor on the functioning of the Income Tax Department in the area of his responsibility. This was Sufi’s first meeting More

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