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India13:11 GMT 28.07.2020Get short URLNew Delhi (Sputnik): India’s Supreme Court has settled the centuries-old row between Hindu and Muslim groups over the ownership of a piece of land where a mosque existed until the 1990s in Uttar Pradesh state. The apex court cleared the decks for the construction of ...

An organisation comprising Kashmiri Pandits has asked the Narendra Modi-led Government of India to restore Article 370 that gives special status to Jammu & Kashmir, India Today reported Tuesday.According to the report, Reconciliation, Relief and Rehabilitation, the organisation has demanded ‘immediate restoration of Article 370. Last year, the Central ...

Nearly a year after New Delhi’s historic but controversial action of changing the constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir, and breaking the erstwhile State into two Union Territories (UTs), the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) leaders and former Chief Ministers, Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, have broken their ...

Upset over downgrading of Jammu and Kashmir to the status of a Union Territory following abrogation of Article 370, former chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said he will not contest assembly elections till full statehood is restored.However, Mr. Abdullah, a former Union Minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee ...

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said on Monday that he will not contest Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir as long as the region remains a Union Territory. “To this day, I fail to understand the need for this move , except to ...

Omar Abdullah said that he will not contest Assembly elections until the government restores Jammu and Kashmir’s full statehood.Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday declared that his party, National Conference, will continue to oppose the Modi government’s August 5, 2019 decision to scrap the status ...

Omar Abdullah was freed after nearly eight months of detention in Srinagar on March 24.New Delhi: While Jammu and Kashmir remains a Union Territory, I will not be contesting any assembly elections, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has written in a stinging piece in The Indian Express as the ...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration informed the Supreme Court on Monday that it will not extend the current detention of high court bar leader Mian Abdul Qayoom under J-K Public Safety Act beyond August 7. The top court asked J-K administration to apprise it by July 29 as to ...

National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said his party would continue to challenge the Centre’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in the Supreme Court and through any other “democratic means”, PTI reported. Abdullah mounted a legal challenge in the top court against the ...

Abdullah said people of Jammu and Kashmir had suffered for decades due to militancy before the “trauma of August 5”, followed by the COVID-19 pandemic. (File photo: IE)As the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status is set to complete one year on August 5, former Chief Minister Farooq ...