Will scrap Article 370 as soon as BJP returns to power: BJP leader
Shahjahanpur (UP): Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya Tuesday said Article 370 of the Constitution, which gives autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir, will be scrapped after the BJP returns to power at the Centre. “Once Narendra Modi becomes the prime minister again, Article 370 will be scrapped,” Maurya told an election meeting […]
LS Polls in Anantnag: Security arrangements face acid test today

Srinagar: The polling for the volatile and restive south Kashmir Lok Sabha constituency begins today with Anantnag district going to polls on Tuesday. The election to this south Kashmir LS seat will be held in three phases as Anantnag district will go to polls today, while voting in Kulgam district will be on April 29 […]
Alarm: 11 youth reported missing across South Kashmir during April

Shopian/Pulwama: As south Kashmir is all set to brace up for a date with democracy, youth across the restive region continue to take to arms with 11 youth reported missing this month alone. Reports suggest that the missing youth from Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam districts have joined the militant ranks with home coming calls from […]
Yasin Malik ill treated during confinement: JRL

Calls for shutdown today
Srinagar: Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Muhammad Umar Farooq and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) called for a valley wide protest shutdown today against the ‘ill-treatment’ meted-out to the ailing and incarcerated JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik by NIA at Delhi. “NIA highhandedness has in fact forced senior resistance leader Muhammad […]
Yasin Malik’s detention: Pakistan criticises confinement
Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday criticised India for arresting and confining separatist leader Yasin Malik in connection with a case related to the funding of terror and separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested JKLF chief Malik on April 10 after a special NIA court in Jammu gave the go ahead […]
Highway blockade: SC seeks replies from Centre, state over restrictions

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday sought responses from the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir on a plea seeking quashing of an order which restricts civilian traffic two days a week on the national highway (NH) stretch from Udhampur to Baramulla for movement of security forces. The state government issued an order on April 3 […]
Cross-LoC bus maintains its scheduled travel
Jammu: The weekly cross-LoC bus service plied Monday as per schedule along the Poonch-Rawalakot route in Jammu and Kashmir, days after India indefinitely suspended trade at two points along the Line of Control in the state after reports of “misuse” of the business by some elements from across the border. A total of 28 passengers, […]
Scrapping Article 370 in JK, introduction of NRC our top priority: Shah

Uluberia/ Krishnanagar: BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said his party will scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and introduce National Register for Citizens across the country after returning to power. Shah accused TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee of questioning the air strikes to “appease” her minority vote […]
Articles 370, 35A a temporary arrangement: Rajnath
Says time to review it has come
Jaipur: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said Articles 370 and 35A for Jammu and Kashmirt was a temporary arrangement and it was time to review it. “How much the entitlement benefitted Jammu and Kashmir? When a few people are raising questions there should be two prime ministers in the country then what is […]
Highway blockade: Govt announces partial relaxations

Srinagar: Bowing to the public pressure and non-compliance by various security agencies, the Jammu and Kashmir governor administration Saturday partially relaxed the two-day-a-week restrictions on the movement of civilian traffic on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway which were put in place to facilitate movement of security forces’ convoys. On April 7, the administration had imposed the […]