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Jammu: Allegations that National Conference candidate Akbar Lone raised pro-Pakistan slogans are “incorrect”, Jammu and Kashmir’s chief electoral officer said on Thursday after an inquiry conducted by the poll panel. Senior BJP leaders and its allies had been claiming that Lone, NC candidate from North Kashmir, had raised pro-Pakistan slogans during a rally, and also […]
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Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Thursday rejected BJP chief Amit Shah’s claim that his party ended coalition with the PDP after it was pressured to dilute the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. He also accused Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Shah of “lying” about the controversial Act which gives special powers to […]
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New Delhi:Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Thursday tried to corner Finance Minister ArunJaitley on the AFSPA issue, asking why he was mum on the withdrawal of the controversial Act from Tripura, Meghalaya and parts of Arunachal Pradesh. He also alleged that there is a “flip flop gang” in the ruling BJP. Jaitley had criticised the […]
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Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court on Thursday issued a notice to Pakistan’s former president Asif Ali Zardari on a petition seeking his disqualification as an MP for hiding his assets worth over USD 1 million including a flat in New York and bulletproof vehicles in the election nomination papers last year. The petition was filed […]
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Criticizes EC’s directive of refraining pol parties from speaking over Pulwama attack
MUMBAI: Dalit leader and three-time MP PrakashAmbedkar Thursday landed in a controversy for allegedly threatening to put the Election Commission (EC) in jail for two days for not letting political parties speak about the Pulwama terror attack. Taking cognizance of Ambedkar’s statement he made during a rally in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, the state election […]
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Srinagar: The Jammu-Kashmir highway was not closed even during the Kargil war when intelligence reports suggested suicide attackers were at large, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah said on Thursday, a day after the government decided to block the road lifeline for two days a week. “What is happening for God’s sake? Are […]
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Jammu: Former Congress leader Sham Lal Sharma Thursday said “anti-nationalism” was not a crime for the party as he hit the campaign trail for the forthcoming general elections after joining the BJP. The two-time Jammu and Kashmir minister and former vice-president of the state unit of the Congress also hit out at the party for […]
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Jammu: The police on Thursday launched a search operation in Katra, the base camp of Matra Vaishnodevi cave shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, an officer said. “There was a routine search operation in Katra as a security measure”, a senior Police officer told PTI. As per reports, the operation was carried out following inputs of […]
Added on April 4, 2019
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Says India not doing justice to people of Kashmir
Says India not doing justice to people of Kashmir
Added on April 4, 2019
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Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said on Wednesday that the relation of Jammu and Kashmir with India will end if the terms and conditions of the state’s accession to the Union were changed. “2020 will also be a deadline from Jammu and Kashmir to the nation. If you remove those terms and conditions on which […]