NEW DELHI — Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Friday said the ongoing anti-farm laws protest will be withdrawn only after the contentious legislations are repealed in Parliament. He also stressed that the government should talk to farmers over the issue of minimum support price (MSP) of crops and other matters. The BKU […]
NEW DELHI — The government will have to move a bill in Parliament to repeal the three agri laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year, Constitution and legal experts said on Friday. In his address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the three agri laws […]
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year. Addressing the nation on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti, the prime minister said the three laws were for the benefit […]
SRINAGAR — Freezing cold conditions continued in Kashmir Valley with all places recording minimum temperature below normal for this time of the year on Friday. A meteorological department official here told GNS that Srinagar recorded minus 1.4°C against 2.1°C on the previous night. On Wednesday (November 17) Srinagar recorded minus 1.5°C which was the coldest […]
JAMMU — Denying that he had knowledge of resignations of some state Congress leaders close to him, former chief minister Gulam Nabi Azad said he will do what the people of Jammu and Kashmir want him to do for the betterment of the Union territory. Spelling trouble for the Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, four […]
SRINAGAR — Emotional scenes were witnessed at the house of the two civilians in Srinagar after their bodies were handed over to the families for the proper burial. The bodies of Muhammad Altaf Bhat and Mudasir Gul were returned to the families around 1 am amid forces presence. A resident of Barzulla, Muhammad Altaf Bhat, […]
LUCKNOW — A barefoot Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra undertook a five-kilometre ‘maun parikrama’ (going around silently) of the famous Kamadgiri Temple in the border town of Chitrakoot, and party leaders accompanied her chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Had it not been for the Congress flags, a casual onlooker could very well have taken it […]
SRINAGAR — The bodies of the civilians killed in Hyderpora encounter will likely be handed over to their families tonight as legal formalities for their exhumation has completed Sources confirmed that police and administrative officials concerned in Handwara are exhuming the bodies from the graves in Waderbala where police had buried them. Sources said “The […]
SRINAGAR — All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) has appealed to Hurriyat Conference to defer the strike call given against the civilian killings of Hyderpora encounter on November 19 Friday as it coincides with birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Ji. In a statement, APSCC Chairman Jagmohan Singh Raina said that the Committee is equally concerned […]
SRINAGAR — Senior Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday called for a judicial probe into the civilian killings during an encounter Hyderpora area of Srinagar on Monday evening. Talking to reporters at Kathua, Azad said that a judicial probe should be carried out to investigate the entire incident. “It is the case of police […]