Tag: Status

Teaching refugee women from Pakistan, other states to drive goes farther than destination STONE MOUNTAIN: In a large, empty parking lot outside Atlanta, one car slowly careened around parking spaces. From the passenger seat, driving instructor Nancy Gobran peered over large sunglasses at her student, a 30-year-old Syrian refugee ...

A couple in an affluent midtown Toronto neighbourhood is asking the city to remove the heritage designation from their century home because they say the original owner was racist. The two-and-a-half storey, 9,000-square foot house in the Yonge and St. Clair area, was built in 1906 for Stapleton Pitt Caldecott, a former ...

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh addressing a massive public rally in remote hilly Mughal Maidan region of district Kishtwar. ‘Kishtwar North India’s power hub’ KISHTWAR, Mar 26: Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh and BJP Candidate for Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency said here today that while Congress led governments in ...

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir —  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited Indian Kashmir for the first time since his government stripped the Himalayan region of its semiautonomous status nearly five years ago. Amid tight security, Modi told a crowd that had packed the Bakshi Stadium in the region's ...

Tens of thousands of extra Indian troops were deployed ahead of the move, which shocked locals and upended normal life in the region - but was backed by many of Mr Modi's supporters. Schools and colleges were shut in the former state, tourists ordered to leave, telephone and internet ...

The visit comes ahead of India’s national election due by May, the first since the region lost its autonomy.Prime Minister Narendra Modi will shortly hold a rally in the main city of Indian-administrated Kashmir, his first visit since the disputed region’s semi-autonomy was scrapped in 2019. Modi’s government stripped ...

Mumbai, Mar 6: Working journalists do not fall in the definition of employees under the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act as they enjoy a special status, the Bombay High Court has said.Consequently, a complaint filed by a working journalist under this Act ...

Article 370 is a combined lesson in history, civics and jurisprudence packaged as a thrilling heist. Aditya Suhas Jambhale’s technically polished puff piece about the Union government’s abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under the Constitution is littered with secretive plans, deft moves and decoys.The prize is Kashmir, ...

NEW DELHI: When Narendra Modi reached Rasthtrapati Bhavan late on the evening of Aug 4, 2019, it was only par for course for a PM who has consistently kept channels of communication open with the President. What was amiss was that the PM had travelled alone in an unremarkable ...

JAMMU: A day after Parliament granted Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahari community, authorities on Wednesday imposed strict restrictions on internet and gatherings in the twin frontier districts of Poonch and Rajouri. Curbs were also put in place in Jammu district on posting and sharing content ...