Nirmal Singh and his family moved into the palatial bungalow near the Army's ammunition sub-depot at Ban village of Nagrota on July 23 last year.
Giani Nirmal Singh Khalsa, a Padma Shri awardee and former Hazoori Raagi at Amritsar's Golden Temple has died after getting infected with coronavirus on Thursday morning, a health official informed.
A contempt notice was moved by the central government in 2018 against Nirmal Singh's wife Mamta Singh for allegedly violating a 2015 order of the then deputy commissioner of Jammu Simrandeep Singh in which the Army depot was notified by the state government.
The saffron party had on April 17 asked all its nine ministers in the PDP-BJP government in the state to submit their resignations to enable bringing in new faces in the two-year-old Mufti cabinet.
Ahead of the reshuffle, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh resigned on Sunday. The post will be filled by Jammu and Kashmir assembly speaker and BJP leader Kavinder Gupta.
BJP's Nirmal Singh resigns as the deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir a day ahead of a reshuffle of the two-year-old Mehbooba Mufti cabinet.
This comes as the much-awaited reshuffle in the Mehbooba Mufti led Jammu and Kashmir government is yet to take place with the BJP expected to bring in some new faces.
The reshuffle comes within a fortnight of the ruling partner BJP asking all its ministers in the state government to resign soon after two party ministers resigned over the Kathua rape and murder case.
Nirmal Singh has said the government is willing to even hold talks with separatists who have been arrested by the NIA in terror funding cases.
Participating in a panel debate on India TV’s ‘Samvaad’ conclave, Singh said that the BJP-led NDA government was committed to hold dialogue but conditions are not favourable because of Pakistan.
Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Nirmal Singh today said that the state government is trying its best to ensure that schools in the state are opened at the earliest.
The Jammu and Kashmir government today ordered an enquiry by Nazir Ahmad Baba, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar into the clashes inside the NIT campus.
Decks cleared for govt formation in J&K; PDP, BJP meet Governor
Jammu: Expressing concern over discovery of a cross-border tunnel along the international border in R S Pura sector of Jammu district, BJP today said Pakistan should "mend its ways and stop support to terrorism"."There is serious
Jammu: Asserting that the supremacy of the tri-colour will remain high, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh yesterday said that no flag can be hoisted at equal level to the national flag and
Jammu: Condemning shelling by Pakistani troops in which 3 civilians were killed and 17 others injured, Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh today said that time has come when international community should declare Pak as a
Jammu: Congress workers today staged a protest against the BJP leadership and burnt the effigy of Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh for failing to keep their promise of setting up of an AIIMS in the
Rajouri: Curfew was clamped in Rajouri town of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday and the Army called in to defuse tension over burning of terror outfit ISIS's flag by VHP, which minority groups claimed bore
Kathua (JK): The Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Nirmal Singh today said that the threat to the annual Amarnath Yatra from the militant outfits was always there, but the security agencies were fully geared
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh has written a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju complaining against national carrier Air India.This comes amid media reports that Nirmal Singh and
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