JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday launched a sharp attack against the BJP, accusing it of engineering political defections across the country, practising “back-door politics” and failing to honour its promise to restore Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood. The chief minister’s remarks came a day after Jammu and Kashmir BJP slammed […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday announced a fresh phase of protests beginning July 20 against the Centre in Delhi over “unexplained delay” in restoring of statehood to the Union Territory. Addressing a public rally here, Abdullah said his party waited for two years after the Assembly election in the […]
JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday defended the National Conference’s decision to invite moderate Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq to a proposed protest in Delhi next week, and accused the BJP and sections of the media of deliberately creating a controversy to divert attention from the party’s campaign for […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday asked the Centre not to mistake his patience for weakness when it came to the restoration of statehood, and demanded that the Union government make the definition of ‘appropriate time’ clear. He was addressing a grand workers’ convention at the mausoleum of his grandparents […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday accused the BJP of trying to bring down his government by engineering a split in the National Conference. Addressing a workers’ convention at the mausoleum of his grandparents at Hazratbal on the 26th death anniversary of his grandmother Akbar Jehan, Abdullah claimed the BJP […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said his National Conference (NC) party is seeking permission for a protest at Jantar Mantar, but alleged that some people were trying to “sabotage” their plan. The NC had announced a sit-in protest in the national capital on July 20, the opening day of […]
SRINAGAR — Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday called for a fundamental shift in Jammu and Kashmir tourism policy, advocating a transition from volume-driven tourism to a sustainable, value-based model that protects the region’s fragile ecology while ensuring long-term economic growth. Addressing the inaugural session of the Conclave on Sustainable Tourism Planning—Designing Tourism for Tomorrow, […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday announced a 100 per cent fee waiver for students belonging to Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) families studying in Classes 9 to 12 in government schools and undergraduate courses in government degree colleges across the Union Territory. The School Education Department, in an order issued on […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the National Conference (NC) would invite all political parties, except those part of the NDA, to the proposed protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on July 20 for the restoration of statehood. He said that besides the parties in the India bloc, invitations will […]
SRINAGAR — More than 150 civil society representatives unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday, urging the Centre to restore statehood to Jammu and Kashmir without further delay. The resolution was adopted at a meeting convened by National Conference president Farooq Abdullah at Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) here. “More than 150 representatives from various sections […]