HDC sets `12 cr sales target this fiscal

Corp to introduce new range of woollen products

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 8: The J&K Handloom Development Corporation (HDC) has set an ambitious sales target of Rs 11.77 crore during the current fiscal.  The corporation has received more than two thousand queries regarding Royal and Basholi Pashmina Shawls, tweeds and cotton items after it started More
SKUAST team to fight paddy blast

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 8: In the face of looming threat of paddy blast, the SK University of Agriculture Sciences and Technology, Kashmir has constituted a joint diagnostic team to have an on-spot inspection of the affected areas. The team will provide on spot instructions to the farmers and suggest More
Agri officers visit Bandipora

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 8: A team of agricultural officers comprising Joint Director (Extension) M S Katoo & Chief Agriculture Officer Bandipora, Sub Divisional Agri Officer Bandipora today visited Bandipora and inspected paddy crop. The team visited Nadihal, Watrina, Rampora, Guroora, Argam and More
Soz seeks market intervention scheme for C-grade apple

GK NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi, Aug 08: A delegation from J&K State led by Prof Saif-ud-din Soz, Member Parliament along with Sham Lal Sharma, Minister for Health, Horticulture and Floriculture and a team of officers met the Union Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar here today. Prof Soz along with Sham Lal More
Aryans gives `21 lakh scholarships to JK students
Srinagar, Aug 8: Chandigarh-based Aryans Group of Colleges gas given away Rs 21 lakh in scholarships to students of J&K in its admission cum scholarship mela. The mela was held at hotel Jahangir, here. Giving details, Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans said the scholarship was based on More
JK Bank to open 100 business units this fiscal

Opens model B/U in Jammu

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Aug 8: J&K Bank has undertaken a major expansion plan under which more than 100 Business Units (B/U) will be made operational by the end of current financial year. This shall take the total B/U strength of the Bank to over 600. The Bank has also planned to open many ATMs across the country More
Set biogas units to save money on cooking gas: Mir

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Aug 8: The farmers of various sub-divisions of Jammu have established 20 biogas units with 90 per cent financial assistance from agriculture department under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna (RKVY). They have also set 209 vermicompost units in the division last year under RKVY and Technology Mission More
Gold breaches `25000

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 8 : Gold today zoomed past the crucial Rs  25,000 per 10 grams level amid a worldwide crash in global stocks,  prompting experts to say that the metal might even touch the Rs 27,000-mark  by Diwali this year. "If the global trend remains firm, domestic gold prices More
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Sajjad Bazaz

Is 2011-bloodbath on cards?Prescription to a disaster is that one should not add to his losing position and remember that standing aside is a position and often the best one to take if one cannot form an opinion as to where the market is heading on a given day.SO, it is More
  • Kashmir

Charri Mubarak leaves Srinagar

Taken to various temples in south Kashmir

GKNN/KHALID GUL

Srinagar/Islamabad (Anantnag), Aug 8: Symbolizing the last leg of the Amarnath pilgrimage, the saffron robed silver mace of Lord Shiva, traditionally known as 'Chhari Mubarak', was on Monday taken from More


  • Srinagar City

R&B fails to provide ‘interim relief’ from Pantha Chowk traffic mess

Ignores repairs of Pampore-Lasjan link road to decongest traffic on single lane highway

GK CITY CORRESPONDENT

Srinagar, Aug 8: Despite frequent gridlocks on the Pantha Chowk highway, the Roads and Building department has failed to repair a alternative link road, which could decongest rush on the Srinagar-Jammu More



  • Jammu

Bloeria takes over as first V-C of CU-Jammu

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Aug 8: Putting all speculations to rest, former Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir Sudhir Singh Bloeria on Monday assumed the charge as the first Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of the Central University More


  • South Asia

Pak military commanders concerned over Karachi unrest

REZAUL H LASKAR/PTI

Islamabad, Aug 8: Pakistan's top military commanders today expressed concern at the law and order situation in the financial hub of Karachi, where weeks of ethnic and political tensions have left scores More


  • World

Violence on London streets; 160 arrested

PRASUN SONWALKAR/PTI

London, Aug 8: The British capital continued to smoulder under a series of "copycat" riots that engulfed the city for a second day, with looting and arson reported in new areas, just miles from the site More


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