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Director Agriculture inaugurates Lavender Festival at Sirhama Anantnag

Director Agriculture inaugurates Lavender Festival at Sirhama Anantnag

Department committed to the development of Lavender crop: Chowdhury Iqbal SRINAGAR, JUNE 20: The Director Agriculture Kashmir, Chowdhary Mohammad Iqbal today inaugurated Lavender Festival at Floriculture Farm Sirhama, Anantnag. Speaking on the occasion, Director Agriculture highlighted the economic importance of Lavender crop and said that there is a huge potential to grab in this sector. […]

 Crescent Kashmir

KCCI signs MoU with ESC India for promotion of Electronic and IT Sector

KCCI signs MoU with ESC India for promotion of Electronic and IT Sector

The MoU between KCCI and ESC is a momentous occasion for J&K UT: LG Sinha Mentoring and promotion of Kashmir based electronics and software units, organizing buyer-seller meet, sharing experiences, best practices and knowledge will hugely benefit the Electronic and IT Sector in J&K: LG Participation in trade fairs, access to global market and advisory […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Hot, humid weather forecast as night temp rises in J-K

Hot, humid weather forecast as night temp rises in J-K

Amid forecast for hot and humid weather, minimum temperature recorded an increase at most places and settled above normal across Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. A meteorological department official said that Srinagar recorded a low of 18.2°C against 16.9°C on the previous night and it was above normal by 2.4°C for the summer […]

 Crescent Kashmir

PDD employee dies of electrocution in Budgam

PDD employee dies of electrocution in Budgam

A PDD employee died of electric shock while repairing transmission line in Nasrullahpura area of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Tuesday afternoon . A official said that the PDD employee identified as Ghulam Qadir Khan (45) of Pathanpora Paimus Budgam died due to electric shock. He said that his body was shifted to the Budgam […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Transparent system

Transparent system

There have been a lot of administrative reforms in Jammu and Kashmir so that the system becomes transparent. Recently the Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir held a review meeting to see the target met by the agencies for the current financial year. He expressed that each of the officers in any department should own […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Div Com Kashmir reviews arrangements for Eid ul Azha & Muharram ul Haraam

Div Com Kashmir reviews arrangements for Eid ul Azha & Muharram ul Haraam

Directs DCs, officers to ensure availability of essentials in market; conduct wide spread Market Checking SRINAGAR, JUNE 19:  The Divisional Commissioner (Div Com) Kashmir, Vijay Kumar Bidhuri today chaired a meeting to review the arrangements for the celebration of Eid ul Azha and observation of Muharram ul Haraam in the province. The meeting was attended […]

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Over 79% qualify annual 10th exams in Kashmir

Over 79% qualify annual 10th exams in Kashmir

With an overall pass percentage of over 79 percent, Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (BOSE) on Monday declared the results of annual regular examinations of 10th standard. As per the results, it has learnt that the girl students have yet again outshined boys. “Girls registered a total pass percentage of 81.68 percent while […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Rural Livelihood Mission

Rural Livelihood Mission

In order to make the lives of villagers better in Jammu and Kashmir, the J & K administration is working on many schemes for the benefit of farmers. Recently LG Manoj Sinha while addressing a public gathering at Panchayat in Jammu, impressed upon the PRI members and the people to start a mass movement to […]

 Crescent Kashmir

Lt Governor addresses Harmony Cultural Foundation’s function at Srinagar

Lt Governor addresses Harmony Cultural Foundation’s function at Srinagar

Felicitates the recipients of Harmony India Awards-2023 for their contribution to Art & Culture LG appreciates the Harmony Cultural Foundation for its contribution to the promotion of folk music, language and literature of J&K UT Vibrant art and culture ecosystem are essential ingredients for all round development of a society: LG Sinha We need combined […]

 Crescent Kashmir

CS releases rankings of Blocks under ABDP

Remote Blocks of Keller, DK Marg, Manzgam, Kashtigarh among top 10 performers SRINAGAR, JUNE 18: In a significant exercise,  the remote blocks of Keller (Shopian), DK Marg (Kulgam), Manzgam (Kulgam) and Kashtigarh (Doda) had found place among the first ten Aspirational Blocks in the 2nd edition of rankings released by Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar […]