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December 16, 2018 No Responses

Post civilian killings GOI in spot over its Kashmir Policy

Delhi is caught in a spot over the killing of seven civilians in violent clashes in the aftermath of an encounter in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday morning that also raised a question about its policy on Kashmir. Three...

December 15, 2018 No Responses

Now ‘Sextortion’ is a crime, J&K first in the country to pass law banning ‘Sextortion’

In a historic decision to curb sexual exploitation of women, the J&K Government on Friday enacted a law explicitly banning such abuse in government offices, thus becoming the first state in the country to have such a legislation. A new...

December 14, 2018 No Responses

Modi was not Vajpayee, Alliance with BJP was a suicide: Mehbooba Mufti

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday termed her party’s alliance with BJP a suicide with Modi not proving Vajpayee, SAARC not used for peace in Kashmir and Pakistan becoming an...

December 14, 2018 No Responses

People of J&K have full faith in BJP, will get majority in Assembly: Amit Shah

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah today lauded the people of Jammu and Kashmir for braving threats and boycott calls to turn up in large number to exercise their right to franchise in Panchayat and Urban Local Bodies...

December 14, 2018 No Responses

UN resolutions will be automatically applicable in J&K if Article 370 is abrogated: Experts

Amid periodic controversy over the abrogation of article 370, which gives special status to conflict ravaged state of Jammu and Kashmir within the Indian union, legal luminaries and academicians say if Article 370 is abrogated, the United Nations (UN) resoluti...

December 13, 2018 No Responses

Newly elected councilors press for the extension of 74th amendment to J&K

As heads of all 79 urban local bodies have been appointed after the completion of the poll process, the elected representatives have stepped up efforts to extend the 74th Amendment of the Constitution to J&K to make these bodies functional...

December 13, 2018 No Responses

Politicians, Bureaucrats live better lives than Emperor Jahangir: Satya Paul Malik

Asserting that he does not have political agenda in J&K, Governor Satya Paul Malik Wednesday said powerful people like politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen live better live then Emperor Jahangir in Kashmir. “When I raised voice against corruption, I ...

December 12, 2018 No Responses

Mandir-Masjid politics rejected by people: NC, PDP, Congress

The National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Congress Tuesday said the results in the assembly polls to five states have shown that political awakening is on the rise in the country as people have rejected the communal politics. “People...

December 11, 2018 No Responses

BJP threatening its MLAs with ‘NIA, CBI Action’- Omar Abdullah, BJP seeks proof Or Public Apology

National Conference Vice President and former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday dared BJP to declare its chief ministerial candidate for Jammu and Kashmir ahead of elections to Legislative Assembly as well as slammed the party for threatening NIA, CBI...

December 11, 2018 No Responses

National Highway closed post fresh snowfall in Kashmir

All highways and roads leading in and out of the Kashmir valley were shut on Monday following fresh snowfall over mountainous stretches of the region while the weather department said more precipitation was expected over the next 24 hours. An...