SRINAGAR: The Parliament on Wednesday passed a law allowing the government of Jammu and Kashmir to auction and mine its newly-discovered reserves of lithium, among other minerals, thereby increasing the mining of the critical raw material for electric vehicle batteries. Under the law, lithium, along with other minerals, was removed from a previous list of atomic […]
Srinagar, Aug 01: Srinagar airport is the third highest profit-making airport for the Airport Authority of India (AAI) which maintains 133 airports across India. Details available reveal that Srinagar airport is the third highest profit-making airport for the AAI after Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Airport, Kolkata and Pune airport. Srinagar airport generated profit of Rs […]
Awantipora, Jul 27: Dozens of stone quarry workers in the Awantipora area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district have demanded permission for the resumption of their work. The stone quarry workers said that their work was stopped three months ago which has rendered hundreds of people jobless. We have been left jobless and our families have […]
Srinagar, Jul 06: Apple industry in Kashmir which has been suffering losses for the last many years is again caught in the throes of crisis since the government ordered the reduction of import duty on Washington apples. The apple growers across Kashmir said that the industry which is considered the backbone of J&K’s economy has […]
Srinagar, July 04 : Kashmir Traders & Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) called for a simplified and a trader friendly tax system here at a function on part of GST week celebrations. The event was organised by State Taxes Department with Stakeholders at Excise & Taxation Complex Solina. President KTMF Mohammad Yaseen Khan in his address to […]
Authorities recently uncovered that more than ₹4,000 crore has been duped out of gullible Indian citizens who had used scammy gambling and betting apps from just one fraudulent ring. The common trait among all those victims is that none of them went to the trouble to check whether the app they were playing on had […]
Srinagar, May 23: Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy Tuesday said G-20 event in Jammu & Kashmir will help to increase the employment avenues and also take the Union Territory’s GDP from tourism to 15 per cent this year. Talking to the reporters on the sidelines of the function here at SKICC, Reddy, said that […]
Srinagar, May 11: With Kashmir’s agriculture sector already battling the post COVID-19 challenges, transport blockade and the unusual climatic change, now wild boars are threatening the agriculture and horticulture sector. Villagers from Chalkloo area of Baramulla said that wild boars have damaged their paddy fields, causing huge losses to them. “These boars destroy our fields […]
Srinagar, May 06: Administrative Secretary Health & Medical Education Department J&K, Bhupinder Kumar Saturday said that Kashmir is ideal place for medical tourism and time is not far when outside patients will come to Kashmir soon for medical treatment. “Kashmir is ideal place for medical tourism. Soon you will see patients of other parts of […]
Srinagar, Apr 27: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday said that the government is expecting a record break tourist footfall of over 2 crore this year. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in Sempora, LG Sinha, said that last year, a record number of 1.88 crore tourists visited J&K. “We are breaking […]
