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No record to substantiate claim: Officials

Srinagar: There is no record to suggest that any of the suicide bombers who carried out the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka had visited Kashmir as claimed by the Army chief of the island nation, officials of central security agencies said here Saturday. One of the officials said immigration records were re-visited after the […]

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Mehbooba plays the ‘Ramadhan truce’ card once again

Appeals Centre, militants to announce ceasefire

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Failing to deliver on promises PM looking for excuses: Omar

Says Modi seeking refuge in Pulwama, Balakote issues

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Campaigning for last phase of polls ends in JK

Srinagar: The election campaign for the last phase of parliamentary polls on two seats in Jammu and Kashmir ended on Saturday as over 6.97 lakh electors will decide the fate of 22 candidates including former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday. In the last phase, Ladakh Parliamentary constituency and Pulwama-Shopian districts of Anantnag Parliamentary constituency […]

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Cross-border operations happened in past as well, but were not politicked: Ex-Commander

Jaipur: Retired Lieutenant General D S Hooda said on Saturday that cross-border operations had happened in the past too but disapproved of politicising the matter. Responding to a question on the Congress party’s claim that six surgical strikes had been carried out during its rule too, Hooda told reporters here, “Certainly cross-border operations have been […]

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Misfortune: Provide us citizenship or deport us, say Pakistani women married to Kashmiris

Srinagar: Pakistani wives of former Kashmiri militants, who returned from across the Line of Control under a rehabilitation scheme for surrendered militants, Saturday appealed the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir government to either grant them Indian citizenship or deport them. The women sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj […]

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BJP promises all-weather railway line, biggest solar energy park for Ladakh

Leh (JK): Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday lambasted the Congress for allegedly neglecting Ladakh over the past six decades and said various initiatives like railway line and biggest solar park are in the pipeline for the region for its overall development. She assured all the pending defence issues, including rent for the land which is […]

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BJP will be a loser, says Rahul

Claims internal assessment by Congress shows BJP is way behind

New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said his party’s internal assessment after four phases of polling shows that the BJP will lose in the Lok Sabha elections and he sees a “scared prime minister” unable to face the onslaught of the opposition. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, he stated […]

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If BJP loses country will have a new PM every day, says Amit Shah

Rewa (MP): BJP president Amit Shah said Saturday that if an alliance of opposition parties came to power, there will be a different prime minister every day. The Opposition is leaderless, Shah said, addressing an election rally at Govindgarh in Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh. “Friends, tell me who will be the leader of the alliance….I […]

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Centre would be responsible if anything bad happens to Yasin Malik: Former MLA

Srinagar: Former legislator from Langate constituency in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district Sheikh Abdul Rashid Saturday said the Centre would be responsible if anything bad happens to JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik who is in Tihar Jail. “Malik is not a criminal. He is a leader, a soldier of the people who respect him. Whether […]