A lease of life
An integrated cold chain storage facility inaugurated last week has taken Kashmir’s cumulative CAS capacity to 13800-mts with the avowed objective of giving a...
Breaking Solina’s Silence
For the last many years, a process was set in motion to convert the heritage filatures in the sprawling Solina into a developmental graveyard...
Costs of Occupation
When troops handed over keys of sports complex Bijbehara to displaced bat manufactures after 23 years it brought back bitter memories of the past....
Long Live The Apple Cart
After years of crying hoarse over Kashmir’s failure on post-harvest front, the private sector has finally chipped in to alter the way we sold...
Winds of Change
With the setting up of an Industrial Estate, Lassipora seemingly has undergone palpable socio-economic change. Alongside tangible infrastructure improvements, the locals are happy about...
Breach in the cement block
The state has allowed an outside player into the cement sector, ending the monopoly of local players. Trade leaders are annoyed at the opening...
‘We Want Willow Cleft Smuggling To Be Strictly Curbed’
Ghulam Qadir Bhat, the leader of Kashmir’s bat manufacturers tells Waseem Dar
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What is the state and status of bat industry in...
Budget 2011-12: Industrial units
The industrial units registered within the State have been enjoying the benefits of exemption from payment of GST under the specified conditions and for...
Fighting Anemia
Given the state of malnutrition in the state, a Jammu manufacturer piloted fortified wheat flour. In this piece, Shubam Puri, one of the director’s...
Public carrier, private woes
For SRTC it has been a journey from riches to rags. The state’s prime mover of men and material has been accumulating losses for...
Taxing Times
The pellet-powered government was so shocked by the reaction to new tax regime that it is unable to tell people that it wanted to...
Old Ideas, New Investments
With impressive concessions in hand, as the government is busy planning to get investors from the plains to change the industrial culture in a...
Steely Resolve
Driven by his ambition and entrepreneurial passion, an engineer from Kashmir valley worked on a marsh to set up a Rs 100 crore state-of-the-art...
Missing Moneybags
State and the central governments would massively invest in incentives to the manufacturing sector, a process that GST has interrupted. As the policymakers insist...
A chick and egg tale
His efforts to make valley self sufficient in poultry are not new. Since 1978 when Nazir Ahmad Tramboo’s tryst with the egg started, he...
