Observer News Service - April 19, 2016
India’s biggest cigarette maker ITC Ltd will soon resume production at its factories, the company said in a statement, two weeks after it decided to shutter its plants over the government’s stringent new packaging rules. India from April 1 ordered 85 percent of a cigarette pack’s surface to be covered in health warnings, up […]
Observer News Service - April 19, 2016
Jammu: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, BSNL in an RTI reply has admitted that it has received over 5000 complaints from mobile subscribers across the state of Jammu and Kashmir. In an RTI reply to the information seeker RTI activist Raman Sharma the DGM(CM) cum Public Information officer of the BSNL informed that during 11 months […]
Observer News Service - April 19, 2016
JAIPUR:The J&K tourism department received overwhelming response from the visitors and exhibitors in the 8th edition of the 3-day Great Indian Travel Bazaar- 2016 (GITB) in Jaipur which started from April 17.Director Tourism Kashmir, Mahmood A Shah interacted with the visitors of the J&K stall and informed them about the tourism potential of the state.In […]
Observer News Service - April 15, 2016
WASHINGTON: Finance ministers of the worlds top economies face pressure to do more for global growth and crack down on tax evasion when they gather Friday during the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank. Amid worries that the world economy is at risk of stalling, the G20 ministers face calls to take action […]
Observer News Service - April 15, 2016
KATHUA:- Continuing with its drive to check pilferage of taxable goods into the state through the porous border adjoining Punjab closer to the minor check post, another attempt of clandestine import of cement was foiled by the sleuths of Commercial Taxes Department. As per DC Commercial Taxes, Lakhanpur, on the intervening night of 11-12 April, […]
Observer News Service - April 14, 2016
Srinagar: The Secretary Tourism Farooq Ahmad Shah stressed for completing the ongoing tourism projects on priority particularly the ones which were taken up on the directions of the then CM Mufti Mohammad Syed.Farooq Ahmad Shah in a four hour long review meeting at SKICC urged the concerned CEO’s of all Tourism developmental authorities and other […]
Observer News Service - April 14, 2016
As India grapples with a threat of dumping from China, commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman vows to protect domestic industry. Excerpts from an interview:Thats a question all countries have to answer. Its not peculiar to India. Its not that demand for our goods and services has fallen. Demand globally has fallen.I can only answer your question […]
Observer News Service - April 14, 2016
New Delhi:- Jewellers in the national capital on Wednesday temporarily called off their 42-day strike, demanding rollback of proposed excise duty on non-silver jewellery, for 12 days after the governments assurance that there will be no harassment by excise officials.Indian Express reported. We have decided to temporarily call off the strike till April 24 after […]
Observer News Service - April 14, 2016
New Delhi: Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, met the Union Finance Minister, ArunJaitley, here last evening. The Chief Minister discussed with the Finance Minister the need for creating a separate window for Prime Ministers Development Package to speed up flow of resources to the state. She also requested early release this month of Rs.880 crore for […]
Observer News Service - April 12, 2016
NEW Delhi;- Retail inflation in March fell to a six-month low of 4.83% on account of cheaper food articles such as vegetables and pulses. The retail inflation, measured on Consumer Price Index (CPI), in February was revised upwards to 5.26% from 5.18. Consumer inflation was seen below this level at 4.41% in September 2015. Food […]