Tag: Kashmir
In a clear message of its unhappiness over Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's flagging Kashmir at the UN and his country's open backing of Pakistan, India on Wednesday issued a travel advisory to its nationals visiting Turkey, days after cancelling a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Ankara.....
A 28-member European Parliamentary delegation met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Monday, a day ahead of their visit to Kashmir -- the first such visit to the Valley that comes amid concerns voiced in the US and some other countries over the situation in the state after the revocation of its special status.....
Expressing shock at the killing of five workers from West Bengal in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her government would extend all help to the bereaved families.....
Radha Krishna Mathur, was on Thursday morning administered the oath as the first Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh.....
At the stroke of midnight on October 31 as Jammu and Kashmir ceased to exist as a state and was formally bifurcated into two Union Territories, the Union Home Ministry in a gazette notification said that those Central laws, Ordinances and rules which were earlier not applicable to the J&K will henceforth be applicable to the UTs of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. ....
Pakistan on Thursday rejected the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories, terming the changes "illegal and void as per relevant UNSC resolutions".....
One civilian was killed and over a dozen others injured on Monday when militants hurled a grenade at the busy Amira Kadal near city centre Lal Chowk here in Kashmir Valley, police sources said.....
Opposition raked up the issue of the detention of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, who is a member of the Lok Sabha, during all party meet convened by the Government, a day ahead of the Parliament session.....
Asserting that normalcy has returned in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday in the Rajya Sabha that not a single civilian was killed in police firing in the Kashmir Valley since abrogation of Article 370 on August 5.....
Traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway was halted on Thursday for a few hours after an improvised explosive device (IED) was detected in Kashmir's Anantnag district.....