Poultry farmers for decontrolling chicken rates

Say production cost per kg reaches to `108

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Mar 4: Valley-based poultry farmers demanded that government should decontrol the rates of poultry. President, Kashmir Valley Poultry Farmers’ Association, Ghulam Muhammad said: “Whenever there is shortage of chicken in the market we get the blame, but nobody looks at our problems More

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JK received `600 cr under NREAGA, spent `400 cr: Min

Govt submits wage hike proposal to centre

GK NEWS NETWORK

Jammu, Mar 4: Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Ali Muhammad Sagar has informed the House that the government has submitted a proposal to Centre for increasing the wage rates up to Rs 180 under MGNREGA. The Minister, according to an official statement, while replying to a More

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Aryans scholarship mela on Mar 6

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 4: Chandigarh-based Aryans Group of Colleges is holding its “Admission cum Scholarship Mela 2012” on Mar 6. The scholarship interviews would be held at Vivanta by Taj, Dal View, Srinagar. More than 600 students have already applied for 50 scholarships in MBA, PGDM, BBA, BCA More

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Airtel appoints NSN to supply, manage 4G network

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 4:  Airtel, a leading operator in India, has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to build and operate its TD-LTE (time division duplex long term evolution) network in Maharashtra, one of the country’s largest telecom circles. TD-LTE is a 4G mobile broadband technology that More

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Training course on soft skills held

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Mar 4: A refresher training course in soft skills was held at Zonal Police Headquarters Srinagar. About 15 officers ranging from Sub-Inspectors to Deputy Superintendents of Police participated in the course, a police handout said here. Besides familiarization with the syllabus/tools More

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‘FCI godowns in Valley running short of foodgrains’

Corp yet to supply Feb quota to CAPD in full

UMER MAQBOOL

Srinagar, Mar 4: The Food Corporation of India has failed to supply February ration quota to the CAPD within the stipulated time, sources said. Although Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution Department (CAPD) has to lift ration quota of 3,32,527 quintals by 20th of every month from FCI More

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Rs20 cr released for Ravi Tawi Irrigation Canal project

SUMIT HAKHOO

Jammu, Mar 4: Planning Department has finally released Rs 20 crore to start civil works for the extension of Ravi Tawi irrigation canal from Ranjit Sagar dam, which could pave way for the irrigation of thousands of kanals of land in Samba and Kathua districts. Sources said that funds have More

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Vinay Electricals eyes Kashmir market

Holds dealers’ meet

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar, Mar 4: With an eye on Kashmir market, Vinay Electricals, one of India’s growing electrical accessories manufacturers, today conducted a dealers’ meet at SKICC here. More than 200 dealers participated in the meeting. Company’s distributor for Kashmir, Amaan Ahmad said the meeting More

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Farmers told to bridge prod-consumption gap

GK NEWS NETWORK

Tangmarg, Mar 4: “The need of the hour is to utilize all resources for increasing agriculture production.” This was stated by the Deputy Commissioner, Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, Dr. P.K. Saha while addressing farmer’s awareness camp at Tangmarg, Town Hall on Saturday More

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Investment Matters

Sajjad Bazaz

Testing time for marketPeriodical corrections will keep the share market range bound for some timeTHE stock market after showing positive rallies continuously for the first seven weeks in 2012 witnessed corrections. First, fall was witnessed in eighth week when it fell more More

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