J&K CM Omar Abdullah called on Union home minister Amit Shah NEW DELHI: J&K CM Omar Abdullah called on Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday. This is the first meeting between the two since Abdullah took over as CM. Both home ministry sources and Abdullah later described the meeting as a courtesy call. However,…
SRINAGAR: J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah has retained Ganderbal seat and resigned from Budgam after having won from both in the recent assembly polls. Protem Speaker Mubarak Gul made the announcement Monday while administering oaths to the 90 newly elected MLAs, including Omar.Sources Omar’s move to give up Budgam would necessitate a bypoll, with Omar’s…
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…
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday strongly denounced the terrorist attack in Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, labeling it as a “cowardly and unforgivable crime.”In an X post, the Congress leader expressed condolences to the bereaved families and affirmed that such acts of violence would not undermine the resolve to…
Two labourers were killed and two injured in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Ganderbal district on Sunday.The terrorists opened fire on the camp housing labourers of a private company working on construction of a tunnel at Gund area in the district, officials told news agency PTI.Two labourers died on the spot while two…
TWO SEATS, TWO OUTLOOKS? Opting for a second seat has made Omar look bullish on NC’s prospects but unsure about his own BUDGAM/GANDERBAL: For all his primacy in J&K politics and his stewardship of National Conference, party mascot Omar Abdullah has failed to settle into a seat that could become synonymous with him over two…
GANDERBAL: An ace swimmer is aiming to drown NC stalwart Omar Abdullah‘s electoral hopes in Ganderbal, his family bastion. The “legend” of Bashir Mir, PDP‘s candidate, is that he often plunges into the choppy waters of Sind river to rescue people without caring for his own life.The buzz is: If someone stakes his life for…
SRINAGAR: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah submitted Thursday his nomination papers from Budgam in central Kashmir, choosing to contest from two constituencies in the J&K assembly elections. The day before, he had filed his papers for the family stronghold of Ganderbal, where the race intensified with some contestants apparently complicating matters for Omar.Both…
SRINAGAR: Bridges aren’t just structures, they are promises standing on piers. Some turn into enduring landmarks, a few age ungracefully, others fall into disuse, and the odd one remains a monument to despair.Seven years in the making, with two disconnected decks on either side and a yawning gap of indifference in between, the one over…
