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A BSF personnel stands guard atop an armoured vehicle, a day before the fourth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, on August 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI A complete silence in Kashmir has marked the ongoing day-to-day hearings by the ...

Ninety-six civilians were killed in Jammu and Kashmir after Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which had given the special status to the former state, was revoked in August 2019, the Centre told Parliament on Wednesday.The Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government had abrogated Article 370 on August 5, 2019. ...

Situation is such we have to take to roads not for justice but for bodies, he says National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah on Saturday visited the family of Amir Magray, one of the slain youth in the Hyderpora operation, in Jammu’s Ramban district and pledged to continue struggle ...

Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said that India should hold talks with Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute, PTI reported.“We are talking to China, which has occupied our land...Hold talks with Pakistan again and open the Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot trade routes again,” Mufti said at an ...

Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir want the erstwhile state’s special status restored and will not settle for anything less, Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti told the Hindustan Times in an interview on Tuesday. Mufti’s remark came two days before the Centre’s meeting with political parties from Jammu ...

File photo of PDP leader and former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti.PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said while her party had battled alleged excesses by police and surrendered militants in the past, it would now focus on the restoration of special status of J&K.PTI Last Updated: November 3, 2020, 18:36 ...

The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party said on Thursday that an “illegal and unconstitutional” disempowerment was perpetrated on the people of the erstwhile state by the abrogation of special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, last year on August 5, PTI reported. The party said the ...

National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Monday said he was unperturbed by the Enforcement Directorate questioning in connection with the alleged irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association, NDTV reported. “The only regret I have is that I could not have my lunch,” he said.Abdullah was questioned by ...

National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Thursday announced an alliance with Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti, People’s Conference and other regional groups following a meeting of six Jammu and Kashmir-based parties to discuss the Gupkar Declaration at his residence in Srinagar, NDTV reported.“We have named this alliance as ...

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference leaders Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah visited Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti at her residence in Srinagar on Wednesday, and invited her for a meeting of all the major regional political parties of the Union Territory on Thursday.“My father and I called on ...