SRINAGAR — Former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has claimed that the late Mufti Muhammad Sayeed misused his “generosity” to become chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir in 2002. In his book, Azad, An Autobiography, the former CM said that he offered Mufti Muhammad Sayeed to be part of the government when he (Azad) had […]
NEW DELHI — The Surat Sessions Court today granted bail to Rahul Gandhi in the defamation case over his remark “why all thieves share the Modi surname” made during a political campaign in Karol in April 2019, Live Law reported. According to the report, the bail has been granted till April 13. His application for […]
SRINAGAR — The Election Commission seems to be in no hurry to conduct the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir and manages to find “new excuses to delay” the elections, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday. “When asked about assembly elections in J&K, the chief election commissioner acknowledged a ‘vacuum that needs […]
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 […]