J&K Bank ties up with BAXY Mobility
SRINAGAR: With a view to facilitating customers, J&K Bank today entered into an agreement with BAXY Mobility – a three-wheeler manufacturing company – for the financing of their commercial vehicles. According to the agreement, BAXY Mobility would offer discounts and labor-free services to the customers availing credit facilities from J&K Bank for purchasing their commercial […]
Dir Tourism reviews winter season preparations at Pahalgam
Stresses on coordinated efforts between line Deptts, tourism stakeholders
PAHALGAM: Director, Tourism, Kashmir, Fazlul Haseeb today visited Pahalgam and reviewed the preparations made by the Department and stakeholders for the winter tourism season, particularly the New Year celebrations. In a series of meetings with associations of local hoteliers and other stakeholders and representatives of line Departments, the Director Tourism Kashmir said that the Department […]
Coordinated approach between govt and RBI on price rise; govt equally serious about taming inflation: Das
Mumbai: Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday said there is a “very coordinated approach” between the Union government and the central bank to fight inflation. Speaking at the BFSI Insight Summit 2022 organised by Business Standard, Das said the government is “equally serious” about taming inflation. The remarks came weeks after the RBI wrote […]
Atal Dulloo discusses dev of online reporting, monitoring dashboard for Agri, allied projects
JAMMU: Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department (APD), Atal Dulloo, today chaired a meeting to discuss the development of an online reporting, monitoring, and analysis dashboard/module for projects of agriculture sectors being cleared by apex committee at Civil Secretariat Jammu. Chief Executive Office, JKeGA, State Informatics Officer NIC, Technical Officer, APD besides representatives of […]
GST compensation of Rs 17,176 crore pending to states as on June: Govt in RS
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday informed Rajya Sabha that GST compensation of Rs 17,176 crore is pending to states as on June 2022. Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said the Centre is giving GST compensation to states for five years. He said even during Covid […]
PM-KUSUM scheme will reduce production cost, increase income of farmers: J&K Govt
SRINAGAR: Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan Yojana (PM-KUSUM), a Central Government scheme will reduce the production cost of the crops ain help in increasing the income of J&K farmers. The scheme was launched by the Government of India to increase the income of farmers and provide sources for irrigation for the upgradation […]
Dulloo reviews progress on implementation of IFAD project across J&K
JAMMU: Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo, today chaired a meeting to discuss the progress achieved on the implementation of the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) project as well as the setting up of Project Monitoring Units (PMU’s) across J&K at Civil Secretariat here. The meeting was attended by Vice Chancellor, […]
Rs 10,09,511 cr loans written off in 5 years: Govt
New Delhi: Scheduled commercial banks have written off loans amounting to over Rs 10.09 lakh crore in the last five financial years and the process of recovery of dues from the borrowers continues, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed the Lok Sabha on Monday. Sitharaman said recovery in NPA (non performing asset) accounts, including written-off […]
COP15: India pushes for new, dedicated fund for biodiversity conservation
New Delhi: There is an urgent need to create a new and dedicated fund to help developing countries successfully implement a post-2020 global framework to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, India has said at the UN biodiversity conference in Canada’s Montreal. It has also said that conservation of biodiversity must also be based on ‘Common […]
Atal Dulloo chairs board meeting of JK Advisory Board for Dev of Kisans
JAMMU: The J&K Advisory Board for Development of Kisans today convened a board meeting under the chairmanship of its Vice Chairman and Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department, Atal Dulloo. Professor J P Sharma, Vice Chancellor SKUAST, Jammu was also present in the meeting. The meeting had a detailed discussion on the present status […]
