Tomato farmers in Budgam are upbeat over soaring demand
Price rise, short supply and modern farming techniques help them to scale profits
Budgam: Tomato farmers in Budgam district have seen their income double this year, thanks to a sharp rise in the crop’s prices and the modern farming techniques they have employed, leading to a bumper harvest. Khursheed Ahmad Bhat, who set up a tomato farm in Narkara village of Budgam district more than a decade ago, […]
Amarnath devotees throng booking counters as Tatkal registration resumes
Jammu: A day after Tatkal registration for the Amarnath Yatra resumed here after suspension for three days, hundreds of people thronged the on-the-spot booking counters. The Tatkal registration was resumed on Wednesday after the pilgrimage was suspended from Saturday to Monday due to inclement weather and the closure of the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway for repairs […]
Scientists find evidence of world’s oldest glaciers in South Africa
New Delhi: Scientists have discovered the traces of the world’s oldest known glaciers, dating from 2.9 billion years ago, in rocks sitting under the planet’s largest gold deposits in South Africa. The finding suggests the presence of continental ice caps in the past and that either the area was closer to the poles, or that […]
HM Amit Shah to address inaugural session of G20 meet on crime, security
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address the inaugural session of the G20 conference on crime and security to be held in Gurugram on July 13, according to an official document. The two-day ‘G20 Conference on Crime and Security in the Age of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse’ will bring together […]
Sagam Mushkbudji becomes JK’s first farmer producer company to get EXIM licence
Srinagar: Sagam Mushkbudji Farmers’ Producers Company Limited has become the first farmer producer organisation (FPO) to get Import-Export licence in Jammu and Kashmir, a NABARD official said on Monday. The FPO was incorporated as a farmer producer company in July 2019 to promote the scented variety of rice and help its marketing and sale across […]
95 pc of 111-km-long Katra-Banihal rail line of USBRL project complete: Officials
Banihal/Jammu: Top Northern Railway officials here Saturday said 95 per cent of the work on the 111-km-long Katra-Banihal rail line has been completed. They said Northern Railways General Manager Shobhan Chaudhuri inspected the ongoing work on the Katra-Banihal section of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Line (USBRL) project on Friday. Chaudhuri carried out an intensive inspection of […]
Consumer disputes: Govt comes up with mechanism for resolution through mediation
Srinagar: In a significant move, the Jammu & Kashmir Government has ordered creation of consumer mediation cells in the state consumer commission and district consumer commissions for resolution of consumer disputes through settlement mechanisms. The Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs has ordered creation of consumer mediation cells in the state consumer commission […]
Children in conflicts: UN records the highest number of ‘grave violations’
United Nations: Children experienced the highest number of “grave violations” in conflicts verified by the United Nations in 2022, with the conflicts between Israeli and Palestinians and in Congo and Somalia putting the most youngsters in peril, the UN children’s agency said. UNICEF also expressed particular concern about their plight in Haiti, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mozambique […]
Infectious disease control should shift focus from young to older children, adolescents: Study
New Delhi: Three million children and adolescents die from infectious diseases every year, equivalent to one death every 10 seconds, with India, Nigeria and Pakistan sharing the highest disease burden, according to a new study published in The Lancet journal. Infectious diseases were found to have caused more than half of such deaths in low […]
Over 50,000 devotees visit Amarnath cave shrine in first four days of pilgrimage
Srinagar: More than 50,000 people have visited the Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas since the start of the annual pilgrimage four days ago, officials said on Tuesday. M Anapurna, a 67-year-old woman pilgrim from Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati, died at a hospital in Sonamarg on Monday, they said, adding the cause of her death […]
