JAMMU — The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was adjourned for half-an-hour following a ruckus in the House by National Conference (NC), Congress, and PDP members over the disallowance of adjournment of the business to discuss the Waqf Amendment Bill. This is the second consecutive day on which the treasury benches did not allow the House […]
JAMMU — Terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir has been curbed but “our mission is still not accomplished” as the scourge has not been completely eliminated, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday after meeting the families of 10 police personnel and an engineer who lost their lives in various terror attacks over the past […]
JAMMU — Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has given his assent to three bills passed by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly during the budget session. These are the Jammu and Kashmir Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025, Jammu and Kashmir Appropriation Bill, 2025 (2), and the Jammu and Kashmir Appropriation Bill, 2025 (3). Assembly secretary […]
JAMMU — The number of polling stations in the Budgam and the Nagrota assembly seats, where bypolls are due, have been raised to 173 and 150, respectively. The draft roll for the constituencies will be published on Tuesday. The Nagrota seat in Jammu district fell vacant after the death of MLA Devender Singh Rana. On […]
JAMMU — PDP MLA Waheed Ur Rehman Para has received Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s nod to move in the House on Tuesday a private members bill for regularisation of ad hoc, daily wagers, need-based and other temporary workers on Tuesday. On March 11, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced the formation of a […]
SRINAGAR — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday met wife and 20-month-old son of Kirti Chakra awardee Humayun Muzammil Bhat, the deputy superintendent of police who died while battling terrorists in 2023. The meeting with Fathima and her son Ashar at Raj Bhawan here was a courtesy call by the home minister to the […]
SRINAGAR — A “chance meeting” between Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union minister Kiren Rijiju at Asia’s largest Tulip Garden here on Monday triggered a political storm with opposition parties dubbing it as “Waqf law bonhomie”. Sources in the ruling National Conference said that Omar Abdullah was accompanying his father and former […]
JAMMU — Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday met the families of 10 police personnel and an engineer who lost their lives in various terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir over the past year and handed over job appointment letters to the next of kin, officials said. The minister, who is on a three-day […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday termed the rejection of the adjournment motion on the Waqf Amendment Act “profoundly disappointing” and accused the National Conference government of yielding to the BJP’s “anti-Muslim” agenda. “It’s profoundly disappointing that the speaker J&K Assembly has rejected the motion on the Waqf Bill. Despite […]
SRINAGAR — Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Monday criticised the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly speaker for rejecting the adjournment motion on the Waqf issue. “It is ridiculous and condemnable that Tamil Nadu which only has 6% Muslim population, passes a strong anti-Wakf resolution in its assembly, while the Muslim majority J&K assembly speaker […]