SRINAGAR — Over 400 delegations met the Delimitation Commission on Tuesday here at Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC), taking the total number of groups to over 400 across Jammu and Kashmir in the last two days. The panel said that it will accommodate all the “genuine suggestions” put forth by the representatives of political parties […]
MUMBAI — Charging Maharashtra Navnirman Sena with attaining a communal approach rather than a developmental one, one of its Muslim leader from Pune on Tuesday resigned from the party citing that the political stand of the party’s chief Raj Thackeray has changed. Majid Shaikh, the branch head of MNS, in his resignation letter stated: “I […]
JAMMU — Former legislator and influential politician from Rajouri district Surinder Choudhary is joining the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on Tuesday at Jammu. Sources said that Choudhary is joining the party in presence of its top leaders including national general secretary and BJP in-charge for Jammu & Kashmir Tarun Chugh. Choudhary had resigned from membership […]
SRINAGAR — The delimitation commission constituted by the Central Government to redraw J&K’s electoral map on Monday met different delegations in Jammu region to consider their suggestions/ objections over the draft report put in public domain. The three member delegation headed by Justice (retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai met different delegations comprising politicians, Panchayat representatives and […]
NEW DELHI — The Delhi Police on Thursday said that they have arrested eight persons in a case of vandalism outside the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. A senior police official confirmed that several teams were conducting raids to nab more people invovled in the case. “With the help of CCTV footages, we identified […]
NEW DELHI — Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir will be held once the delimitation exercise is over and after consultation with political parties. “We have no interest in keeping Jammu and Kashmir under President’s Rule,” Shah said in Lok Sabha while responding to concerns raised by members […]
MUMBAI — A day after Mehbooba Mufti remarked that peace would be elusive in Kashmir until the Centre holds dialogue with Pakistan and people of Jammu and Kashmir, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said the PDP chief could make such comments as the BJP had given people like her strength by forming government with her […]
RAMBAN — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday reiterated her call to the BJP government for dialogue with Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir, saying that peace would be elusive as long as Kashmir remained unresolved. She called upon people to vote for the constituents of the People’s Alliance for Gukpar Declaration (PAGD) […]
RAMBAN — Former Chief Minister and PDP President Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said that Bharatiya Janata Party is badly damaging the integrity of Delimitation Commission which otherwise is an institution of repute. Talking to media persons on the sidelines of a party convention in Ramban district, she said that Delimitation Commission is an institution of […]
NEW DELHI — Accusing the BJP of doing politics over the issue of Kashmiri Pandits’ exodus, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday asked how many of the displaced people have returned to the Valley since the party came to power at the Centre. As the war of words between Kejriwal and the BJP over […]