A one-day training programme on soil and nutrient management in fruit orchards under rain-fed conditions was organised for farmers at dry land research sub-station of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Rakh Dhiansar, here today.

MIS fails to achieve targets

The Market Intervention Scheme (MIS), being implemented by the director of Horticulture Planning and Marketing for the procurement of apple and sandy pear, has failed to achieve the desired results, as the achievement was just 45 per cent on financial front and 43 per cent on physical side.

Rajouri, March 29
The governing body meeting of the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Poonch, presided over by District Development Commissioner, Poonch, Muhammad Afzal, reviewed various ongoing rural works under various centrally sponsored schemes in the district.

With a view to protect the Mother Nature from global warming, last evening global population observed World Earth Day but here in Jammu people showed their mixed reaction for observing the day.

Though lights remained on in the entire city but in some areas people observed the day by switching off their light for one hour.

Stepping in to save Kashmir's endangered red deer -hanguls - from extinction, the Jammu and Kashmir government has launched a Rs 8.80 crore project under which carnivore proof enclosures will be set up for captive breeding of fawns.

Sumayyah Qureshi Posted: Mar 27, 2009 at 2234 hrs IST

Srinagar: A World Bank-funded project worth Rs 3 crore could give a new lease of life to saffron production in Jammu and Kashmir.

The world might have progressed by leaps and bounds over the years, but when it comes to tuberculosis scenario in Kashmir the people affected by it are unwilling to share information as they fear isolation.

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today hoped that tourists, both domestic and international, would visit the local tulip garden to enjoy its vast expanse having about 12 lakh tulips of different varieties and colours in full bloom. He was the first to purchase an entry ticket this morning when the garden was formally thrown open for public this year after it had been first opened last year.