Jammu and Kashmir

Department of employment of jammu and Kashmir has come up with a new scheme to provide loan to Ex-Servicemen for their new business. Objective: The aim of the Scheme is to encourage and assist eligible ex-servicemen to take up self- employment service ventures in Tiny, Small Scale Industry and Small ...

Department of employment of jammu and Kashmir has come up with a new scheme to provide money for establishing their own employment generation units. Objective: To provide educated unemployed youth of the state margin money,capital and interest subsidy assistance for setting up their own business. Eligibility: Age- 18-42 years(General category) ...

Tourists at the Srinagar International Airport will be able to access to free hi-speed 4G Internet Services for the first 15 minutes as BSNL on Sunday launched its state-of-art Wi-Fi Hotspot services. According to official sources, BSNL is willing to launch Wi-Fi service to other regions as well to help ...

News: Railways have set up 1 megawatt solar power plant at Katra station as part of Green Power initiative. The solar project was commissioned in March this year and presently, out of 5,000 units produced daily by the plant, only 1,700 to 1,800 units are utilized by Shri Mata Vaishno ...

Youth Start-Up Loan Scheme (YSLS) YSLS has served many individuals and their associated dreams to become a reality since 2013. This scheme was launched under the state’s Sher-i-Kashmir Employment and welfare programme for Youth (SKEWPY) with the objective to create employment opportunities by setting up their own businesses. The state ...

Sher-e-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for the Youth (SKEWPY) SKEWPY provides an opportunity to Kashmiri youths to convert their business idea into reality with the help of assistance provided under this scheme. The main objective of this scheme is to motivate, train and facilitate educated youth to take up entrepreneurship ...

Sports Minister Sarbanand Sonowal formally declared the sanction of central assistance of Rs. 200 crore to J & K to boost sporting activities in state. The Minister of State (Independent Charge)Youth Affairs and Sports Sarbananda Sonowal has said that sports play a crucial role in the physical fitness and well ...

News: Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami, a Special Forces Commando of the Army who laid down his life while battling militants in Handwara , had eliminated 10 militants in a short span of 11 days before making the supreme sacrifice in Kashmir. Lance Naik Goswami volunteered to join the elite ...

News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to announce a financial package for Jammu & Kashmir on August 15 on Independence Day. “If everything goes well, the announcement will be made on August 15. It may well be over Rs 1 lakh crore,” said a senior member of the PDP-BJP ...

News: Lt Gen Hooda said that 100 militants had been neutralized in 2013 along LoC and the hinterland followed by killing of 150 militants in 2014 and 40 militants this year till now. The Army officer said more than the security situation which need to be looked at, radicalization, youth ...