Jammu Traders, industrialists welcome

Jammu Traders, industrialists welcome

Jammu: Welcoming the Supreme Court’s verdict on Article 370, traders and industrialists in Jammu on Monday said they are looking forward to the restoration of statehood and democratically elected government in Jammu and Kashmir. During the day, the top court unanimously upheld the Centre’s decision to abrogate Article 370 and directed restoration of statehood in […]

PDP suspends political activities for week

PDP suspends political activities for week

Srinagar: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said it has suspended all its political activities for a week in the wake of the Supreme Court upholding the abrogation of Article 370. “The decision has been taken in order to stand in solidarity with the people of Jammu & Kashmir in the wake of the […]

Disappointed, but struggle will continue: Omar

Disappointed, but struggle will continue: Omar

Srinagar: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Monday said he is disappointed but not disheartened by the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Centre’s August 5, 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said it took the […]

A death sentence, defeat of the idea of India: Mehbooba

A death sentence, defeat of the idea of India: Mehbooba

Srinagar: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Article 370 abrogation is “nothing less than a death sentence”, adding that it marked the defeat of the idea of India with which the Muslim-majority state had acceded in 1947. “Today an unconstitutional and illegal act that took […]

Disappointing: Sajad Lone

Disappointing: Sajad Lone

Srinagar: The Supreme Court verdict on the pleas challenging the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution is “disappointing” and justice has yet again “eluded” the people of Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Conference (PC) chief Sajad Lone said on Monday. “The Supreme Court verdict on Article 370 is disappointing. Justice yet again […]

Life normal amid heightened security in Valley

Life normal amid heightened security in Valley

Srinagar: Life went on as usual in Srinagar and other district headquarters in the Kashmir Valley amid heightened security measures as the Supreme Court upheld the Centre’s decision to abrogate Article 370 and reorganise Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories. Shops and business establishments opened in Srinagar and elsewhere as per usual while public […]

BJP using halal certification as diversionary tactic: Mehbooba

BJP using halal certification as diversionary tactic: Mehbooba

Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday accused the BJP of creating controversy over halal-certified products and said the saffron party has failed to fulfil any of the promises it had made to people for coming to power. “These are diversionary tactics. They could not provide the two crore jobs or Rs 15 lakh to […]

Will be forced to see Indian democracy die if ‘status quo’ doesn’t change: PDP

Will be forced to see Indian democracy die if ‘status quo’ doesn’t change: PDP

Srinagar: The People’s Democratic Party on Thursday accused the BJP-led Centre of curbing freedom of expression, saying if the status quo continues, it will lead to the death of democracy. “Nine Indian journalists have been arbitrarily arrested and six of them are Kashmiri. We may not have seen the birth of the Indian democracy but […]

Modi stopped infiltrators, abrogated Article 370 in JK: Amit Shah

Modi stopped infiltrators, abrogated Article 370 in JK: Amit Shah

Dhar (MP): Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that has the courage to stop infiltrators in the country and it is not possible for the Congress and leaders of the opposition bloc INDIA to do so. “Modi ji has done the job of stopping infiltrators […]

Amarnath cave shrine gets motorable road

Amarnath cave shrine gets motorable road

It’s Inviting Catastrophe In Kashmir: PDP, BJP Retorts Srinagar: In a first, vehicles have reached the Amarnath cave as the Border Roads Organisation has expanded road connectivity up to the cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said here on Monday. The widening of the road from Dumail to the Amarnath cave via Baltal base […]