The two-day visit of foreign envoys to Kashmir concluded on Friday. The EU Ambassador to India along with some Ambassadors of EU Member States had visited Jammu and Kashmir on February 12 and 13.
“India has now imposed the longest-ever internet shutdown by a democracy, disrupting access to medical care, business and education for seven million people. Hundreds of Kashmiris remain in preventive detention, including key political figures,” the letter, signed by two Republican and two Democrat senators, says
The second batch of foreign envoys visited J&K for a first-hand assessment of the situation in the Union territory six months after the nullification of article 370.
Supreme Court judge Justice M M Shantanagoudar on Wednesday recused himself from hearing the plea filed by Sara Abdullah Pilot challenging the detention of her brother and NC leader Omar Abdullah under the J-K Public Safety Act. Pilot's plea came up for hearing before a three-judge bench comprising justices N V Ramana, Shantanagoudar and Sanjiv Khanna.
Government is planning to take fresh batch of foreign envoys to Jammu and Kashmir either this week or next week to get first-hand information about the ground situation after the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, officials said on Monday.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Saturday said the Congress was opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as it has been doing with the pro-people measures of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.
A day before the Delhi Assembly polls, the Shiv Sena on Friday heaped praises on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his government's "ideal" work in the last five years. replicated the 'Delhi model' of development in other states
Senior politician and People's Conference chairman Sajjad Lone and PDP leader Waheed Parra, close aide of detained former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, were released from preventive detention here on Wednesday. After the release of Lone and Parra, 13 political leaders now remain detained at the MLA hostel here which has been temporarily converted into a subsidiary jail.
A former PDP MLA and a trade union leader were released from detention in Srinagar on Tuesday.
While addressing an election rally in Delhi's Badarpur, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday attacked the anti-CAA protestors in Shaheen Bagh area.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed a public rally in Delhi on January 31.
Months after former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was put under house arrest for preventive measures, an unverified picture has surfaced on Twitter on Saturday in which he seemed almost unrecognizable sporting a salt and pepper beard, triggering reactions of awe and anger from netizens, including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The Supreme Court Wednesday said it will refer the Article 370 issue to a larger 7-judge Constitution bench only if satisfied that there is a direct conflict in two earlier verdicts of the apex court which dealt with the matter.
The Supreme Court will today hear pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370.
NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat on Sunday kicked up a row after he said that the shut down of internet services in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 did not have any significant impact on the economy, as people there did nothing other than watching "dirty films" online.
The voice and SMS facilities shall be restored on all local prepaid sim cards across Jammu and Kashmir. However, mobile internet shall remain suspended in Budgam, Ganderbal, Baramulla, Srinagar, Kulgam, Anantnag, Shopian and Pulwama.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ministers will visit Jammu and Kashmir towards January end, news agency PTI quoted sources as saying. This is the first such visit ever since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5.
Slamming the Narendra Modi government over the recent visit of foreign envoys to Jammu and Kashmir, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said that he would be arrested at the Hyderabad airport if he expressed his desire to go to Kashmir
A poster reading ‘Free Kashmir’ was spotted at a demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Law in Chennai on Saturday
In a statement issued by Naik's team on Saturday, the Islamic preacher said that he was approached by a representative of the Indian government who offered him the deal, which he claims to have refused.
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