New Delhi: The Government of India as approved a nearly Rs 6,000-crore multi-purpose project to provide uninterrupted water for irrigation to farmers in Jammu’s Kathua and to produce power, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday. It was decided at a high-level meeting that the work for the Ujh multi-purpose project will start immediately and […]
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said the full economic potential of Jammu and Kashmir has not been realised due to Article 370 and the full rights of the people of the region enshrined in the Constitution were denied because of Article 35A. Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said in Lok […]
New Delhi: The people of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh want freedom and restoration of human rights, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said on Saturday, asserting that “money is no substitute for democratic freedom”. Chidambaram made the remarks when he was asked by reporters to comment about the higher allocation for the Union Territory of […]
Says abrogation of special status historic
New Delhi: Invoking BJP’s idealogue Syama Prasad Mookerjee, President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said rapid development of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh are among the priorities of the central government. He said the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35A of the Constitution by two-thirds majority in both the houses of Parliament is not […]
NEW DELHI: After an almost unrecognisable photograph of detained former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah surfaced online on Saturday, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said it pointed to a “very disturbing fact” about the government. “This picture points to a very disturbing fact about the central government. A former CM, who is also […]
New Delhi: Making clear it will not stay the Citizenship (Amendment) Act without hearing the Centre, the Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the government four weeks to respond to petitions challenging the CAA and said a five-judge Constitution bench will hear the matter. Hearing a batch of 143 petitions, an apex court bench headed by […]
New Delhi: India on Thursday hit out at China for helping Pakistan in trying to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN Security Council, saying Beijing should seriously reflect on the global consensus and refrain from such actions in the future. Pakistan has repeatedly tried to raise the Kashmir issue at the UN Security Council […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Thursday slammed the government over its decision to send 36 ministers to Jammu and Kashmir and said if everything was “normal” there, what was the need to send “propagandists”. A group of ministers will visit Jammu and Kashmir later this month to spread awareness about the positive impact of abrogation […]
New Delhi: The Congress raised questions on Monday over the role of Davinder Singh, a senior Jammu and Kashmir police officer arrested for ferrying militants, in the Parliament and Pulwama attacks and asked if he was “only a pawn” in a “bigger conspiracy”. In a swift operation, police arrested Singh, a deputy superintendent of police, […]
New Delhi: The year 2019 was the seventh warmest recorded in the country since 1901, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Monday. However, warming during 2019 was substantially lower than the highest warming observed over India during 2016, it added. PTI Press Trust of Indiakashmirreader.com