Centaur Lakeview Hotel goes out of JK’s hands?

HCL inked management contract with

Mumbai-based firm in Sept: Kashmir Inc

Srinagar, Dec 4: Valley’s apex business body, the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry, today said the Hotel Corporation of India (HCL) has “inked a management contract with a Mumbai-based hospitality firm M/s BD&P Hotels for managing the Centaur Lakeview Hotel (CLH) Srinagar for thirty years More

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e-governance projects in JK run behind schedule

Inordinate delay forces govt to constitute e- Mission Team

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Dec 4: In the face of its failure to complete the e-governance projects and the displeasure shown by the centre, the J&K government has constituted a 7-member e-Mission Team to guide implement IT projects to make hi-tech administration system a reality in the state. The e-governance More

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CCD opens café at Boulevard

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 4: The Cafe Coffee Day, a division of Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd. today opened a café at Boulevard here.  The café was inaugurated by M Afzal Parray, President of the associated Chamber of Commerce and Industries-Kashmir (CCIK) and Mushtaq Ahmad Burza, President More

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Air fares will stabilise within a week: Praful Patel

GK MONITORING DESK

Srinagar, Dec 4: In the background of stiff criticism the proposed airfare hike by airliners has evoked across India, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel today said the “corrective action being taken by the government will start showing results within a week.” The minister had earlier send More

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Reframe priorities for KVK Action Plans: VC SKUAST-K

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Dec 4: To make the Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) more farmer centric and result oriented, the SKUAST-K started a series of Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) Meetings of all KVKs under its aegis  In this behalf, a SAC Meeting of KVK Budgam was held at under the chairmanship of Dr Tej More

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Govt prepares draft legislation to prevent agri land conversion

ELICITS PUBLIC VIEWS

Jammu, Dec 4: Government has prepared a draft legislation to restrict conversion of agriculture land for non-agriculture purposes.  The draft legislation “the Jammu and Kashmir Prohibition on Conversion of Agriculture Land for Non-Agriculture Purposes Bill” has been posted on website More

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HDFC raises lending rate by 75 bps

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Dec 4: Leading housing finance firm HDFC on Friday announced a hike in its benchmark lending rate by 75 basis points, making home loan dearer for both existing and new borrowers. HDFC has raised its retail prime lending rate (RPLR) by 0.75 per cent with effect from December 1, 2010 More

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Montek sticks to 8.5 pc growth for FY11

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Dec 4: The Plan panel on Friday stuck to the projection of 8.5 per cent economic growth this fiscal, even as top adivisor of the Finance Ministry has said that the target would be revised upwards because of robust 8.9 per cent economic expansion in the second quarter. "The growth More

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