Peace imperative for good tourist season: Jora

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar Feb 13: Minister for Tourism Nawang Ringzin Jora today called for joint efforts by government and tourism stakeholders to create “a congenial atmosphere for attracting more and more tourists to the Valley.” He said state tourism ministry conducted several tourism melas in various More
‘Don’t link tourism with politics’

*KHARA launches tourism directory ‘Destination Paradise’*Demands 5-yr tax amnesty for hotel indsutry; Massive infra development

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Feb 13: President, Kashmir Hotel and Restaurant Association (KHARA), Siraj Ahmad today urged the government not to link tourism with politics, which according to him has been doing a great disservice to this sector in J&K. Siraj was speaking at a function held to release yearly More
Study tour for sericulture farmers

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 13: The 3rd batch of Sericulture farmers from District Ramban, Doda, Kishtwar and Udhampur of Jammu division   left for study cum training programme to Karnatka today.  The study cum training programme has been organized by the Sericulture department under Centrally Sponsored More
Enable interception or stop B'berry services: Govt to telcos

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Feb 13: Hardening its stance against Blackberry for not providing a solution to intercept Enterprise mail services, the government today said telecom operators will have to stop any such services that can not be monitored as per the satisfaction of law enforcement agencies. BlackBerry More
SBI ups rates by 0.25 pc

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Feb 13: The country's largest lender State Bank of India on Friday hiked lending and deposit rates on select maturities by 0.25 percentage points in response to policy rate hike announced by Reserve Bank last month. SBI revised the base rate or the minimum lending rate 0.25 percentage More
Bank watch

Sajjad Bazaz

Secured investment OptionYou can think of safety and guaranteed returns by putting your money in fixed deposit schemes of banks.Earlier there was a concept in our state that people would often consider the banks as a depository institution, limited to More
  • Kashmir

PDD casual labourers risk lives for ‘nothing’

'Without wages, compensation; 45 electrocuted, 165 amputated since 1994'

SAMAAN LATEEF

Srinagar, Feb 13: Scores of casual laborers, working with Power Development Department (PDD), who suffered permanent disability after being electrocuted while carrying out the repair works, have been left More


  • Srinagar City

Forget kids, children's park goes dating point

Parents, separatist leader pestered; say place not worth for minors’ amusement

M HYDERI

Srinagar, Feb 13: Something unexpected of for kids to see is doing the rounds of the City’s sole Children’s Park at Hazuri Bagh. The recreation spot, meant exclusively for minors, with all swings, toons More



  • Jammu

K-interlocutors arriving on Feb 21

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Feb 13: Three Interlocutors, appointed by New Delhi to hold discussions with different shades of opinion in Kashmir, are expected to arrive here on a week long visit of the state on February 21 More


  • Business

Peace imperative for good tourist season: Jora

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar Feb 13: Minister for Tourism Nawang Ringzin Jora today called for joint efforts by government and tourism stakeholders to create “a congenial atmosphere for attracting more and more tourists to More


  • News

Egypt parliament dissolved, constitution suspended

RANIA/PTI

Cairo, Feb 13: In a major move to dismantle the vestiges of the Mubarak era, Egypt's military today dissolved the parliament and suspended the country's constitution, accepting the major demands of the More


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