Tag: Jammu & Kashmir

The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday criticised Turkey’s remarks against India’s decisions related to Jammu and Kashmir, and described them as “factually incorrect, biased and unwarranted”. Turkey had on Monday claimed that India’s move to rescind the region’s special status had not “contributed to the peace and stability ...

Jammu and Kashmir’s first L-G Girish Chandra Murmu quits. Manoj Sinha appointed new L-G.Jammu & Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu has resigned. According to a communique issued by the President’s secretariat, Murmu’s resignation has been accepted.The communique added that the President has appointed Manoj Sinha as the next ...

Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers put up a roadblock on an empty street during a lockdown on the first anniversary of the revocation of Kashmir's autonomy, in Srinagar August 5, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Ismail Pakistan has been unsuccessfully trying to drum up international support against India for withdrawing ...

At 11.45 p.m. on August 4, 2019, this correspondent received an SMS from a friend in Srinagar. Unusual, as we usually chatted on WhatsApp. Internet was blocked in Kashmir. The reply to the SMS failed to deliver. The next morning — August 5 — a call to her did ...

LG and Lt Gen Joshi discussed various important issues pertaining to the prevailing security scenario and the overall security management in Jammu and Kashmir.Army commander of Northern Command on Wednesday called on Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor G C Murmu and discussed the overall security management of the Union ...

The Kashmir Valley wore a ghost town look ahead of the first anniversary of the revocation of J&K’s special status, with a strict curfew imposed in Srinagar and other towns in north and south Kashmir.Also read: In one year, BJP’s political project sees J&K’s regional symbols vanishingNazir Ahmad, a ...

New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant General GC Murmu on Tuesday invited ire of the Centre in the Supreme Court on his claim that the 4G Internet service can be restored in the Union Territory, contrary to a Centre's affidavit that a special committee set up at the instance ...

A year after the Centre’s decision to dilute article 370 and bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh into two Union Territories, former chief minister Omar Abdullah says the government has been unable to resolve the issues it claimed the moves would result in. In a video-conference from his residence ...

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 ...

On August 5, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) fulfilled its poll promise and abrogated Article 370 which granted special status to Jammu & Kashmir and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories – J&K (with legislature) and Ladakh (without legislature).To mark the first anniversary of ...