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SRINAGAR: The Director General, Horticulture, Kashmir, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat today chaired a meeting here to review the preparedness for celebration of Apple Festival-2021 at SKICC Srinagar on 28th and 29th of October, 2021. During the meeting, the Director General said that the main attractions of the programme would be Buyer-Seller meet, Exhibition of local and exotic fruits especially Apple varieties, Exhibition of high density plantation technology and latest Horticultural Machinery and Exhibition of latest varieties of fruit plants, besides unveiling of Horticulture booklets by the Lieutenant Governor, J&K. The Director General said that prominent fruit dealers, entrepreneurs, fruit processors, CA Store owners will be participating in the said event. Besides, buyers and entrepreneurs fr...

Srinagar: Three STRY training programmes of one week each were inaugurated today at Directorate of Extension SKUAST-K on “Organic Vegetable Production Technologies for open and Protected Cultivation”, “Quality Seed Production with Special reference to Resistance Breeding for Organic Agriculture” , and “ Milk from Udder to Laboratory Desk”. The programme were held under the guidance of Vice-Chancellor SKUAST-K Prof. J. P Sharma. Prof M. C Sharma formerly Vice-Chancellor Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI) was the Chief Guest and Guest of honour was Prof. Dil Mohamamd Makhdoomi Director Extension SKUAST-K, Prof & Head Vegetable Sciences Prof Sumati Narayan, Associate Directors of Extension and other Scientists of the Directorate were also present at the occasion. Prof. M C Sharma...

BANDIPORA: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Bandipora, Dr Owais Ahmad on Monday chaired a meeting to review the implementation and registration of unorganized workers on National Database for Unorganized Workers (NDUW)-e-SHRAM portal in Bandipora district. On the occasion, the DC directed the officers of all the departments to register the daily wagers associated with their respective departments on an e-shram portal including that of Asha workers, Anganwari workers etc. The DDC further asked the concerned officers to work in proper coordination in monitoring of mobilisation of target sub-groups of unorganised workers like MGNREGA workers, SHG members under NRLM and NULM, street vendors, Auto drivers, construction (BOCW) workers, mid-day meal workers, domestic workers, ASHA workers, Anganwadi ...

New Delhi: Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Monday that fair and impartial auditing is essential for a resilient economy as it instils confidence among citizens. Addressing officers at the National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Das said that audit is important for the country as public expenditure decisions are based on these reports. Observing that there is a need to improve the quality and depth of audit, he said the Reserve Bank has taken a host of steps in consultation with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for improving the audit of banks and financial institutions. Listing out some of the recent measures, he said, risk-based internal audit system for commercial banks was strengthened in January this year. Das said RBI has been stressing on a strong ...

New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday issued a consultation paper on issues related to market structure and competition in cable television services, and invited comments from stakeholders. The move has been initiated following a reference from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB), TRAI said in a statement. The authority said the MIB had sought its recommendations on issues related to monopoly and market dominance in cable TV services on December 12, 2012. Following a due consultation process, TRAI issued recommendations on the same on November 26, 2013, it added. “The TRAI has now received a back reference, dated February 19, 2021, from the MIB mentioning therein that a considerable time has passed since the recommendations were made and that ...

SRINAGAR: In view of the reports of damage caused to fruit trees and fruit crop by heavy rain and snowfall occurred on Ajaz Ahmad Bhat Director General Horticulture, Kashmir in his extensive tour to District Kulgam visited various snow hit orchards in the areas viz. Chawalgam, Nihama, KB Pora, Khul, Ahmadabad, Noorabad Waripora, Mirhama, Kulgam, DK Marg etc. and took stock of the situation. He was accompanied by Joint Director Horticulture, Kashmir, concerned Chief Horticulture officer and various field functionaries. Concerned SDM, representatives ofKrishi Vikas Kendra, concerned Tehsildar, Members of Panchayati Raj Institute also accompanied the Director General. Director General expressed his sympathy with the grieved orchardists and assured them of all possible help. He further advised...

MUMBAI: The combined market valuation of five of the top-10 most valued companies eroded by Rs 1,42,880.11 crore last week, with Hindustan Unilever, Reliance Industries and Tata Consultancy Services emerging as major laggards. Last week, the 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex declined by 484.33 points or 0.79 per cent. Market benchmarks — Sensex and Nifty — declined for the fourth consecutive session on Friday. The market valuation of Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) tumbled Rs 45,523.33 crore to reach Rs 5,76,836.40 crore. Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) valuation eroded by Rs 45,126.6 crore to Rs 16,66,427.95 crore and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) market worth tanked by Rs 41,151.94 crore to Rs 12,94,686.48 crore. The market capitalisation (Mcap) of Bajaj Finance plunged Rs 8,890.95 crore to Rs ...

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices witnessed a hike for the fifth consecutive day across the country on Sunday. With a hike of Rs 0.35, the price of petrol in the national capital increased to Rs 107.59 per litre. The price of diesel also saw a hike of Rs 0.35 in Delhi thereby amounting to Rs 96.32 per litre respectively today. Mumbai also reported a surge in fuel prices as compared to yesterday. Petrol witnesses a hike of Rs 0.34 and costs Rs Rs 113.46 per litre, while diesel rates sored by Rs 0.38 amounting to Rs Rs 104.38. As for Kolkata, the price of petrol is Rs 108.11 per litre, while diesel is Rs 99.43 per litre. In Chennai, petrol and diesel cost Rs 104.52 and Rs 100.59 per litre respectively. Rates have been increased across the country and differ from state to state depending on...

NEW DELHI: Dish TV’s Rs 1,000 crore rights issue is critical for the survival of the DTH company that needs funds to upgrade technology and replace old set-top boxes with the new-age smart connected boxes otherwise its subscriber base would shrink, a top company official said. Dish TV is facing competition from the rapid growth of new distribution platforms like OTT and increased penetration of the free DTH platform of public broadcaster Doordarshan, and needs funds to upgrade and convert all its existing STB into smart boxes offering multiple services, the official, who wished not to be named, said. Terming it as “reality”, the official said rivals such as TataSky and Airtel have already taken a march over it by providing android operated new age STB, which enables subscribers to watch bo...

Srinagar: Amid fluctuating and unpredictable weather conditions, Director Agriculture Kashmir Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal asked the Chief Agriculture Officers of all the Districts of Kashmir Division to ensure that all the necessary measures are taken to educate the farmers with respect to different steps adopted while dealing with the present weather situation. Farmers need moral support in addition to technical guidance under prevailing conditions in order to tackle the situation emerging from the present scenario, he said and added. Director Agriculture expressed these views while addressing an emergency meeting with the Joint Directors and Chief Agriculture officers of Kashmir Division. He asked the officers to assess the situation and maintain digital records of the impact of present wea...