NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday announced that two more constituents of the Jammu and Kashmir – based Hurriyat Conference have renounced separatism and manifested their commitment and faith in the vision of a “new Bharat” under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He also stated clearly that “separatism is breathing its last” in…
Abdul Rashid Sheikh (Agencies photo) NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Tuesday said that both the court and the Lok Sabha Speaker are fully capable of ensuring that Jammu and Kashmir MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh, also known as Engineer Rashid, currently jailed in a terror funding case, abides by the law while attending Parliament.The…
NEW DELHI: India has rejected Pakistan‘s “repeated references” to Jammu and Kashmir at the United Nations asserting that the region “was, is, and will always be an integral part of India.” It condemned the nation for using the platform for its “parochial and divisive agenda.”“India is compelled to note that the delegate of Pakistan has…
NEW DELHI: After a fierce gunfight erupted between the security forces and terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kathua on Sunday evening, eyewitnesses recounted the horror of the incident. Search operations are under way after three to five terrorists were reportedly spotted in the region. A 48-year-old woman narrowly escaped as the heavily armed terrorists held…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday dismissed speculation about his closeness to the BJP, saying, “he is not the one who starts one game and ends up playing another.” Speaking in the J-K Assembly, Abdullah said, “We are not those who start somewhere else and then end up playing another…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar slammed selective application of global rules on issues pertaining to sovereignty and territorial integrity, and cited the example of J&K where he said an invasion was turned into a dispute and the attacker was clubbed with the victim.Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue, he said after World War II,…
NEW DELHI: After Islamabad described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on India-Pakistan relations as misleading and one-sided, India again hit out at the neighbouring country saying Pakistan’s support to cross-border terrorism is the biggest roadblock to peace and security in the region.“We note that Pakistan has once again made some comments about the Indian Union…
JAMMU: Police arrested a woman pilgrim near the sanctum sanctorum of the cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi in Reasi district of Jammu & Kashmir after they found a loaded pistol in her possession.Police identified the accused as one Jyoti Gupta, who claimed she is a retired police constable from New Delhi, who they…
SRINAGAR: Chief minister Omar Abdullah fretted Tuesday about “discrimination” in distribution of assets after the 2019 bifurcation of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state into Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.Lawmakers of Omar’s National Conference (NC) members argue that J&K UT has been given far less assets in Delhi, Chandigarh and other regions. But Omar,…
Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif and PM Modi NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday hit back at Pakistan for labelling PM Modi’s remark on the bilateral issues with Islamabad “misleading and one-sided”.The external affairs ministry said the world knows that the real issue is Pakistan’s “active promotion and sponsorship of cross-border terrorism” and that Islamabad should “vacate…
