Low quality day-old chicks threaten Valley poultry industry

Experts appeal govt to check the menace

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 20: With the day-old chick imports to the Valley shooting up sharply, many unscrupulous traders here have started importing “poor quality chicks” to make some quick bucks, sources said.  Sources said these traders were using dyes to colour the plumage and the fluff of the tender More

BSNL e-billing evokes good response

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 20: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s e-billing has evoked tremendous response with many of its customers preferring to pay their bills through Online.  Curiously, the company is giving one per cent discount on the bill amount paid Online.  In a statement issued here More

JK Bank sponsors Seerat conference

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 20: J&K Bank today sponsored a Seerat Conference which was organized by Government Higher Secondary School Dangiwacha in its Chinar Park at Dangiwacha. Students of various schools from adjoining areas participated in the conference sponsored by J&K Bank through its More

Florence Hospital holds free medical camp
Srinagar, June 20: In its second phase of free medical camps, the Florence Hospital, Chanapora held a camp at Charar-e-Shrief on Sunday where more than 800 patients were examined by qualified doctors. The doctors were from departments of surgery, medicine, gynaecology and orthopaedics of More

FCIK seeks relocation of forces from Valley IEs

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 20: On the visit of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram to the Valley today, the Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir (FCIK) raised pitch for relocation of security forces from the industrial units in Kashmir. At a meeting of its administrative council here today, the FCIK More

Govt plans ropeways for better, timely marketing of vegetables

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, June 20: Minister for Agriculture Ghulam Hassan.Mir today said the Agriculture Department has taken up ropeway project for connecting the highly productive but inaccessible areas of Kishtwar to facilitate better and timely marketing of the vegetables especially the Kharif season peas, other More

Insects infest village in Kupwara, threaten agri crop

MUDASIR MAJEED

Kupwara, June 20: Nestled amid thick forests and lofty hills, Warsun Gujran, a sleepy village in this district has currently become home to large swarms of some unknown kind of insects that the residents fear may damage its agriculture crop. The worried villagers have reported to the health More

Seed Capital Fund Scheme

J&K Bank has put in place a fast track clearance mechanism of projects of first generation entrepreneurs

Bank watch By Sajjad Bazaz

SHAHZAD (name changed) is a known name in tailoring in his town. Despite having skill and urge to explore his potential he has not been able to generate income beyond Rs.3,000 per month and this meager income doesn’t suffice his domestic needs. Having an urge to start his own venture - tailoring and More

  • Kashmir

OMAR CONGRATULATES SARPANCHS, PANCHS

‘Be prepared to shoulder greater responsibility’

TARIQ RASOOL

Sonawari (Sumbal), June 20: Expressing satisfaction over the successful completion of Panchayat elections in the state, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on Monday congratulated newly elected Sarpanchs and More



  • Srinagar City

After Airport Road, ERA takes highway ‘hostage’

IMPROPER DRAINAGE WORK CAUSES MISHAPS; ADMIN SLEEPS

GK CITY REPORTER

Srinagar, June 20: As if the month-long inconvenience faced by the people on the Airport Road in May wasn’t enough that the Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) has again taken the busy road hostage by More




  • Jammu

Cong MP faces wrath of party colleagues

GK NEWS NETWORK

Kishtwar, June 20:  Senior Congress leader and Member Parliament (MP) from Udhampur-Kathua parliamentary constituency Choudary Lal Singh had to face the wrath of his party colleagues here on Monday More



  • Briefs

Regularize ReZs: Tarigami to Govt

Srinagar, June 20: The state secretary of CPI (M) and MLA Kulgam M Y Tarigami has urged the government to concede to the legitimate demands of the Agriculture technocrats having been engaged as Rehber More



  • Business

Low quality day-old chicks threaten Valley poultry industry

Experts appeal govt to check the menace

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, June 20: With the day-old chick imports to the Valley shooting up sharply, many unscrupulous traders here have started importing “poor quality chicks” to make some quick bucks, sources said. & More



  • News

‘Exempting CBI from RTI could be counter-productive'

Former CIC Writes To PM

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, June 20: Wajahat Habibullah, the first Chief Information Commissioner, threw his weight behind the opposition to the decision to exempt CBI from RTI Act, telling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh More



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