NEW DELHI: Amit Shah on Wednesday left no Gandhi generation untouched as he attacked the Congress party over their stance on Article 370, Muslim reservation and Ram Temple. Strongly reiterating the saffron party’s stance on the restoration of special status to Jammu & Kashmir, the home minister said that even if “Indira Gandhi was to…
Photo credit: Screengrab/ Supreme Court YouTube channel NEW DELHI: Justice Sanjiv Khanna took oath as the 51st Chief Justice of India (CJI) on Monday. President Droupodi Murmu administered the oath in a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, defence minister Rajnath Singh, vice president Jagdeep Dhankar, and former CJI D Y Chandrachud…
This is a representational image SRINAGAR: The J&K assembly resembled a fight club Thursday as BJP MLAs clashed with marshals after speaker Abdul Rahim Rather ordered the eviction of opposition members who were protesting the passage of a resolution on restoring the former state’s special status — revoked in 2019 with the abrogation of Article…
NEW DELHI: Former union minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani on Thursday criticised the Congress-led INDI Alliance’s recent move demanding the restoration of Article 370 and special status for Jammu and Kashmir, terming it “an affront to the Indian Constitution and the Supreme Court’s stance.”At a press conference, Irani said, “Today, I stand as an…
Jammu and Kashmir’s Assembly witnessed uproar as MLA Khurshid Ahmad Sheikh displayed a banner on Article 370, prompting objections and a brief adjournment. NEW DELHI: Another ruckus broke out at the J&K Assembly in Srinagar on Thursday after Engineer Rashid’s brother, MLA Khurshid Ahmad Sheikh, displayed a banner on Article 370. Leader of Opposition Sunil…
Sunil Sharma. (Photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced Sunil Sharma, a former minister, to lead the Jammu and Kashmir BJP legislature party. Sunil Sharma is the MLA from Padder Nagseni constituency in Kishtwar district and will serve as the leader of opposition in the J&K state legislative assembly. “Sunil Sharma has…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha member Sheikh Abdul Rashid aka Engineer Rashid criticised Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah for maintaining a “double standard” stance on Pakistan and Article 370. The comments came in as Rashid, accused of terror funding, was on his way to surrender to Tihar Jail on Monday. “When he is in power, he…
Security personnel check vehicles on Srinagar-Ladakh highway NEW DELHI: Concerned that Sunday’s terror attack targeting employees of an infrastructure project in Jammu & Kashmir’s Ganderbal may affect the confidence level of major infrastructure companies executing projects in the UT, LG Manoj Sinha on Monday ordered beefing up of security forces’ presence in residential areas of…
J&K CM Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday resigned from the Budgam assembly seat and retained the Ganderbal seat, which is the National Conference’s (NC) bastion.Abdullah won both the Ganderbal and Budgam seats in the recently concluded assembly polls, which took place after a decade.Omar Abdullah, who is…
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: J&Klieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha has cleared a resolution of CM Omar Abdullah’s cabinet urging the Centre to restore the statehood to the Union territory, officials said Saturday. The resolution was approved by Omar’s govt late Thursday, a day after he was sworn in.On Saturday, Omar told workers of his National Conference (NC) in Jammu that…
