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JAMMU: Parties across the political divide in J&K have welcomed the announcement on Tuesday by railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw that three proposed railway projects in the state have been put on hold for now following opposition from the state govt and MPs, who have argued that the track alignments could damage apple orchards.Vaishnaw said there…
SRINAGAR: Authorities placed Srinagar MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi of National Conference, opposition PDP legislator Waheed Parra, party functionary Iltija Mufti and others under house detention Sunday, stopping a student-backed protest against J&K’s current reservation policy and exposing sharp political fault lines within NC.The confrontation follows months of debate over changes to J&K reservation rules. Originally…
Mehbooba Mufti; MK Stalin NEW DELHI: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday lost her cool with a journalist who asked her to speak in Urdu instead of Kashmiri, which the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was using at the time.As soon as she began her press conference in Kashmiri at the…
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti NEW DELHI: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday criticised the suspension of the life sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, saying “leniency in brutal rape cases has been normalised under BJP Raj.”“The Delhi High Court‘s suspension of the life sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh…
Waheed ur Rehman Para (File photo) SRINAGAR: After five years of legal battle, Jammu and Kashmir High Court (HC) on Monday permitted People’s Democratic Party (PDP) legislator Waheed Parra to travel within the country, modifying the earlier bail condition restricting him to J&K.A division bench of Justices Vinod Chatterji Koul and Sanjeev Kumar, however, directed…
