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Hope it will be start of better relationship between India Pakistan: Farooq Abdullah on Jaishankar visit

SRINAGAR — National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday expressed hope that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s upcoming visit to Islamabad for the SCO meeting would mark the start of a better relationship between India and Pakistan. India on Friday announced that Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation […]

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Omar Abdullah asks bureaucrats to resist pressure to ‘further disempower’ incoming govt

SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah Friday asked bureaucrats in Jammu and Kashmir to resist any pressure to “further disempower” the incoming elected government. “The BJP has clearly accepted defeat in J&K. Why else would the chief secretary be assigned the duty to change transaction of business rules of the government to […]

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PM Modi should put pressure on Israel to end ‘bloodshed’ in Palestine, Lebanon: Omar Abdullah

SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah on Sunday said the Union government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi should put pressure on Israel to end the “bloodshed” in Palestine and Lebanon. “What has happened yesterday (killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah), it looks like war is hovering around the region. The Government of India […]

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Low voter turnout: Nadda denies Omar Abdullah’s claim, says “he is bad in mathematics”

JAMMU — Union Minister JP Nadda on Friday hit back at National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah over his statement blaming the central government for ‘lower voter turnout’ in the second phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. Nadda, denying Omar Abdullah’s claim, said “he is bad in mathematics”. Speaking at a press conference, […]