SRINAGAR — Peoples’ Conference chief Sajad Lone on Wednesday asked Chief Minister Omar Abdullah-led government in Jammu and Kashmir to stay away from the Union Territory foundation day celebrations, saying it should be remembered as the day of “disempowerment”. The ruling National Conference (NC) has already said it will not participate in the celebrations. “Why […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) on Wednesday said it would stay away from the Union Territory’s foundation day celebrations on October 31 as it does not accept the status and wants restoration of statehood at the earliest. “No one from the party will attend the UT foundation day function as we don’t accept the status,” […]
JAMMU — Encounters will keep taking place as long as militants keep infiltrating the country, National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah asserted here on Wednesday. “Encounters will keep taking place. Militants will keep coming, and we will keep eliminating them,” Abdullah told reporters here. The politician was responding to a question about the killing of three […]
SRINAGAR — PDP leader Waheed Para on Wednesday called for the scrapping of the reservation policy in Jammu and Kashmir, saying it can compromise the long-term quality and competence of institutions. In a post on X, Para said the J&K PSC 2023 results had only 40 per cent of candidates selected on “open merit,” despite […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Member of Parliament from Central Kashmir’s Srinagar constituency and National Conference (NC) senior leader, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, on Tuesday wrote a letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, congratulating him on assuming office of the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. In addition to his congratulations, Ruhullah proposed several measures for the […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina on Monday said conspiracies are being hatched to destabilise the region again. “This business of guns and grenades should stop right now as it will not benefit anybody,” he told reporters after visiting the residence of Dr Shahnawaz Dar in Budgam district. Dar was among seven […]
SRINAGAR — Lok Sabha MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid on Sunday asked Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah if restoration of Article 370 and the release of political prisoners were discussed during his meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Awami Ittehad Party chief Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, […]
JAMMU — A fact-finding team of the Congress visited Reasi and Udhampur districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday to ascertain the reasons for the party’s poor performance in the recently-held Assembly polls in the Union Territory, a spokesperson of the party said. The team headed by Jammu and Kashmir Congress vice-president Ravinder Sharma interacted […]
JAMMU — Expressing concern over the recent militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 12 persons, including two soldiers, over the past one week, J&K Congress on Saturday urged the Centre to take along the newly-elected National Conference government to defeat militancy in the Union Territory. The Congress also slammed the BJP for the […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir BJP chief Ravinder Raina on Saturday said restoration of statehood to the Union Territory is not a political issue but a policy matter, and any haste on the subject should be avoided since J&K has already suffered immensely due to Pakistan-sponsored militancy in the past 35 years. Raina was speaking […]