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Months after it came to power in 2019 with a massive mandate, the Bharatiya Janata Party scrapped Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and downsized it from a state to a Union territory.Five years later, the anger against that decision appears to echo in the Lok Sabha results from the ...

Five years after New Delhi scrapped Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, the Reserve Bank of India has recommended changes that might radically change the ownership of the erstwhile state’s premier financial institution – the Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited.The bank has a ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said Article 370 of the Constitution was only temporary and President's power to revoke it still exists. A 5-bench constitution bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant was pronouncing its verdict on ...

For a large part of his political life, Waheed Ur Rehman Parra was a poster boy of democracy in Jammu and Kashmir, a young leader who stood up for the idea of India in the strife-torn state. Even after the scrapping of Article 370 in August 2019, which cancelled ...

LAHORE: Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan has said that the only way forward in relations with India is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi restores the special status of Kashmir.In 2019, Modi government revoked Article 370 of the Constitution which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated ...

NEW DELHI: In a sign that Pakistan may consider resuming trade ties with India, the new government has decided to appoint a trade minister in the Pakistan high commission here. The post had been lying vacant for close to five years, or since well before Pakistan snapped all trade ...

All government, private, and army-run schools in Kashmir reopened on Wednesday, 2 March, after a gap of 32 months. Enthusiastic students were seen queued up outside various schools, where all the necessary arrangements were made by the school managements to ensure physical distancing and thermal screening of students – ...

He blamed the BJP for making false promises to the people of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.The NC leaders were addressing party workers ahead of a crucial meeting on Saturday of the Gupkar alliance which comprises six political parties, including the NC and the PDP.Senior PDP leader, ...

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court calling for early hearing of a series of pleas against the Centre’s decision to rescind Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and split the region, reported PTI on Tuesday. The plea said that people in the region were suffering as the ...

National Conference President Farooq Abdullah was on Saturday unanimously chosen as the chairperson of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration in Jammu and Kashmir, PTI reported. Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti will be his deputy.Besides this, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami will be the ...