Tag: J&K

Only for representation: A worker applies colour to strings which will be used to fly kites, on a roadside in Ahmedabad, India, December 15, 2016. REUTERS/Amit Dave The incident took place when Skinder Khan was returning home on a two-wheeler, officials said. PTI Jammu Last Updated: August 8, ...

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Thursday attacked the BJP government for treating her party leader Saifuddin Soz as a “prisoner”, and alleged Jammu and Kashmir has been under a “dictatorship” for the past one year. “Saifuddin Soz has played a big role in ...

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a panch, who resigned today, told The Quint, “Workers affiliated with the BJP are feeling insecure. Most of the BJP workers were not part of yesterday’s scattered celebrations over the abrogation of Article 370. They preferred to stay away from these celebrations,” he ...

An Amnesty International India report on Wednesday urged the National Human Rights Commission and the National Commission for Women set up offices in Jammu and Kashmir, saying the people there had not had any redressal of their rights violations after the closure of the State Commissions a year ago. ...

Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor G C Murmu abruptly resigned on Wednesday, officials said. His resignation came on the day the Union Territory marked the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which scrapped Jammu and Kashmir's special status. ...

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Thursday said he was given the option of being released from preventive detention in October, provided he signed a bond to “remain silent” on all developments in Jammu and Kashmir subsequent to August 5 for the “foreseeable future”, The Wire reported.In an interview ...

Days after J&K Lieutenant-Governor G.C. Murmu hinted at restoring high-speed 4G Internet, the Union Territory administration on Wednesday extended the ban up to August 19, citing fears of anti-national activities on the first anniversary of the revocation of J&K’s special status on August 5.“There are inputs suggesting rise in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir, which has been in place for over 11 months now, has caused numerous violations of human rights, including “bail, and fair and speedy trial”, a report by the Forum for Human Rights in Jammu and Kashmir said. The members of the forum include ...