SRINAGAR — Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Wednesday said the revision of electoral rolls in Jammu & Kashmir doesn’t disturb schedule or conduct part of polls and the poll-body is aware that there is a vacuum in the Union Territory which needs to be filled. Addressing a news conference in New Delhi, the CEC […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said the social media guidelines for Jammu and Kashmir government employees were part of “a clear intimidation of dispossessing people” of their livelihood. She said that the authorities have become judge, jury and executioner in complete violation of the fundamental rights of people “Whether […]
NEW DELHI — Senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday night said no judge ordered a two-year jail term for any BJP leader, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, or disqualify them for continuously making comments against her family, Deccan Herald reported. As per the report, she said her brother Rahul Gandhi, a former Congress […]
JAMMU — Former J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President and AICC Observer Ghulam Ahmad Mir Friday said that Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha is a blatant misuse of power by Modi Govt as it can’t fight him politically. India has never witnessed such vendetta politics and dictatorial rule. Mir while reacting to unethical move […]
NEW DELHI — Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified from Lok Sabha, a day after a Surat court sentenced him in a criminal defamation case, The Hindu reported A notification from the lower House, signed by Secretary General Utpal Kumar Singh said, Mr. Gandhi stands disqualified from the membership of Lok […]
JAMMU — Statesman and stalwart Ghulam Nabi Azad has penned an honest and unflinching autobiography to be released in New Delhi on April 5. ‘Azaad’, an autobiography by Ghulam Nabi Azad, former CM J&K and Union Minister, charts his political odyssey as he in the book depicts the grand arc of the great India story […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said that she will not contest Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir till Article 370 is restored. She said that it might a foolish decision, but the issue is an emotional one for her. I am never going to participate in Assembly elections as […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference Vice-President Omar Abdullah on Monday said that his party would not support any policy to punish relatives of militants as it is against natural justice. He said that no militant was given government jobs by the previous Jammu and Kashmir dispensation. The Former Chief Minister said, No militant was given a […]
SRINAGAR — Former chief minister of erstwhile J&K state and National Conference (NC) vice president, Omar Abdullah on Saturday said that the present government in J&K is not for the people, but to appease the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Reacting to the Conman from Gujarat arrested in Srinagar, Omar while addressing a gathering in Kulgam, […]
SRINAGAR — National opposition and Jammu and Kashmir regional parties on Thursday submitted a memorandum to Election Commission of India, seeking early assembly polls in the Union Territory. The signatories of the memorandum include National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah, Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge, CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, NCP chief Sharad Pawar […]