‘Dream big to achieve big’

His intense desire to give something great to Kashmir inspired him to launch a successful enterprise. In a short span of time after its launch his Banday Group of Companies reached a scale where it provides employment to over a thousand persons  in the Valley. Ashiq Banday in an interview More

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Valley hoteliers demand tourism infrastructure

Resolve to make city cleaner, more beautiful

MUKEET AKMALI

Srinagar,Jan 27: Expecting a successful tourism season ahead, the Valley-based hoteliers today urged the state government to upgrade tourism infrastructure in the urban areas. The hoteliers pinned their hopes on Nawang Rigzin Jora, newly inducted Urban Development Minister for giving thrust More

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Retail investors can recover Rs 12,145 cr from relisting: Report

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Mumbai, Jan 27: Retail investors, who lost a whopping Rs 61,000 crore in blocked funds due to suspension of trading in 1,450 firms during 1992-2009, could get back Rs 12,145 crore on re-listing of some these firms, says a report by CNI Research. Between November 2009 and November 2012, as many More

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Tourism Day celebrated

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 27: J&K Tourism Department in association with Space Communication organized an event on ‘India Tourism Day’ at SKICC. The event was aimed to highlight the importance of aviation industry in connecting Kashmir. Minister for Tourism, Ghulam Ahmad Mir on the occasion said that More

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JK Tourism bags 2 awards

Srinagar, Jan 27: J&K Tourism has won ‘Outlook traveller award 2012’ for Ladakh. The place has been voted as India’s favourite adventure tourism destination. J&K Tourism has also won an award for Vaishno Devi rated as the favourite pilgrimage site in India. The state shared this award with More

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Aircel customers get ‘balance transfer’ facility

GK NEWS NETWORK

Srinagar, Jan 27: Aircel, leading cellular company, has launched a unique and innovative service ‘balance transfer’ for its customers in Jammu and Kashmir. “With ‘balance transfer’ the Aircel customers will be able to transfer their balance to other Aircel customers which could be family, friends More

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Of Exchange-Traded Gold Funds

One can buy units of these funds, hold them as long as one likes and sell them when he wants to. But it’s just considered as a lazy way for investors to jump on the gold bandwagon

Sajjad bazaz

IT’S a well known fact about Kashmiris that they are among the largest investors of gold. But most of their purchases are in the form of jewellery.In lieu of this fact, one of the readers has pointed out that as an instrument of financial investment, the jewellery seems pretty useless. He has even More

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