February 02, 2023 11:05 pm | Updated February 03, 2023 12:15 am IST – SRINAGAR/JAMMU Jammu and Kashmir Kisan Tehreek supporters stage a protest in Srinagar on February 2, 2023 against the administration’s land eviction drive across the Kashmir Valley. | Photo Credit: ANI Amid growing protests over the Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor administration’s … Read more
New Delhi: Carrying vaccination cards of children and pregnant women, struggling to keep a tab on the next jab and other such hassles may soon become a thing of the past. After the success of the Co-WIN platform, the government has now replicated it to set up an electronic registry for routine vaccinations. Named U-WIN, … Read more
In a significant move, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday announced that the service conditions of all the employees of Chandigarh administration will be aligned to that of central civil services. “I want to give this good news to employees of the Chandigarh administration. From today, the service conditions of all employees of the … Read more
The Delimitation Commission has shared the second draft proposal with its members, triggering widespread political reaction in Jammu & Kashmir. Most of the regional parties have rejected it outrightly. Hakeem Irfan Rashid explains some of the work done by the panel since its formation in 2020 and the political reaction to the proposals. When was … Read more
All claims made by the BJP-led Central government to justify the abrogation of Article 370 proved to be wrong as Jammu and Kashmir still faces militancy, separatism, destruction and injustice, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah said on Sunday. The former chief minister said militancy spread to even those areas, including summer capital Srinagar, which … Read more
The Congress hit out at the government over its “failure” on the national security front in Jammu and Kashmir after five Army soldiers lost their lives in an operation in Poonch on Monday. The opposition party said the Union territory is burning and terrorists are killing innocent people due to the government’s “weakness”. “This incident … Read more
Andaman and Nicobar Islands MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to extend 100 per cent reservation for the domiciles of the archipelago in jobs under the Union Territory administration, as has been done in Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. Such a decision will ensure timely filling up of more than 7,500 … Read more
Taking forward the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the delimitation commission has invited leaders of all national, regional and registered political parties of Jammu and Kashmir for separate meetings during its visit to the Union Territory next week, officials said here on Friday. The commission led by Justice (retd) Ranjana Prakash Desai and Chief … Read more
The delimitation commission will visit Jammu and Kashmir between July 6-9 and interact with political parties, public representatives and officials of the Union Territory to gather “first hand” information of the mega exercise to carve out new constituencies, the EC said on Wednesday. A decision in this regard was taken after a meeting of the … Read more
The key question at the prime minister’s Jammu & Kashmir all-party meeting on Thursday is whether all political stakeholders, barring of course the BJP, are willing to take the process of holding assembly polls forward regardless of their public position on Article 370. If yes, it would provide much-needed political legitimacy to the delimitation process, … Read more