Patna: As many as 17 opposition parties on Friday resolved to fight the 2024 Lok Sabha elections unitedly to defeat the BJP and work with flexibility by setting aside their differences and will meet in Shimla next month to chalk out a joint strategy. Addressing a joint press conference after an almost four-hour meeting during […]
Srinagar: A local school’s denying entry to girls wearing abaya, a loose cloak worn by Muslim women, has evoked sharp reactions from all quarters in Kashmir with PDP president Mehbooba Mufti terming it an attack on religious freedom guaranteed by the constitution. “Jammu and Kashmir has become a laboratory for BJP’s plans of changing Gandhi’s […]
Bengaluru: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Wednesday emphasised upon regional parties coming together to fight the 2024 Lok Sabha election as it was necessary to save the country from being divided on religious lines. The National Conference president denounced films like ‘Kashmir Files’ and ‘The Kerala Story’, saying they were destroying […]
Media Associations Voice Concern New Delhi: Media associations in the country have voiced concern over India slipping 11 places to 161st rank in the World Press Freedom Index, 2023, published on Wednesday. Global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which publishes a yearly report on press freedom in countries across the world, had last year […]
Srinagar: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday alleged Atiq Ahmad and his brother’s killing in Uttar Pradesh was a “clever diversionary tactic” to shift attention from the “revelations” made by former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satyapal Malik about the Pulwama attack. Malik, in an interview to a news portal, had claimed that there were lapses […]
Srinagar: National Conference leader Sheikh Mustafa Kamal on Sunday called for an independent probe into the killings of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf Ahmad in Uttar Pradesh. “There should be an independent probe into the encounter. There are fingers being pointed already,” Kamal told reporters in Anantnag district. He said in the absence […]
Abdullah-Led Delegation Meets CEC, Submits Memorandum For Early Elections New Delhi: A delegation of Opposition leaders from Jammu and Kashmir led by veteran politician and Lok Sabha member Farooq Abdullah met Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar on Thursday and pressed for holding early assembly polls in the Union Territory for reviving the democratic process […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference State Spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar on Monday slammed the government on selection and the award of contract to ‘tainted’ and blacklisted APTECH Company for conducting the upcoming Jammu Kashmir Services Selection Board (JKSSB) exam(s). Echoing the public rage over the decision, Imran, as per GNS, said “The Company […]
Says Admin Taking Decisions Without Consulting Even 30,000 Elected Public Representatives Jammu: National Conference, People’s Democratic Party and CPI(M) on Wednesday staged separate protests here against the imposition of property tax and demanded immediate roll back of the decision. Members of the National Conference (NC) led by their provincial president Rattan Lal Gupta took to […]
Says the move runs contrary to govt’s promise of minimum govt, maximum governance slogan Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference on Tuesday decried J&K government’s move of stripping Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Science (SKIMS) of its autonomous status. In a statement, NC Chief Spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq while lamenting over what he called as undermining […]