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Making students sing Hindu hymns exposes govt’s real Hindutva agenda: Mehbooba
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said authorities in Kashmir were directing students in some schools to sing Hindu hymns, which exposes “the real Hindutva” agenda of the BJP-ruled Centre. “Jailing…
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‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’: Like Nizam, others also didn’t join India in 1947
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) loves to attack the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, for his decision to stay independent after August 15, 1947. Calling his reign ‘tyrannical’…
- Kashmir
J&K to grant land ownership rights to West Pakistan refugees
Jammu: In a major decision, the Centre is set to grant land ownership rights to West Pakistan refugees (WPR) in Jammu and Kashmir. After the abrogation of Article 370, the Centre has…
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Stunning growth of tourism in Kashmir fills strategic gaps
Tourism in the post-Article 370 abrogation has emerged as a strategic asset for stakeholders in Kashmir as more than two million arrivals till ending August have changed the way tourism was looked…
- India
Religious rights of every person subject to public order: SC
New Delhi: Religious rights of every person are subject to “public order”, the Supreme Court said on Monday while dismissing the plea of a man seeking to exhume the body of his…
- Opinions
Demand for statehood for J&K turned into a political movement
A political movement has been set in motion for restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, which since October 31, 2019, is reeling from its degraded status of Union Territory, following the split…
- Kashmir
Killing of Kashmiri Pandits, SC allows NGO to approach Centre
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea seeking an SIT probe into the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits which led to their exodus from the valley. A…
- India
More J&K Congress leaders resign to join Azad
Srinagar: Over a dozen senior Congress leaders and party workers in Jammu and Kashmir resigned on Wednesday to support Ghulam Nabi Azad. Leading the group, former J&K Congress president and minister, Peerzada…
- Kashmir
Religion has become prosecuting factor in India, alleges Mehbooba Mufti
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday alleged that religion had become a prosecuting factor in the country’s “warped idea of justice”. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister was reacting to…
- Opinions
BJP’s 3-point strategy on Kashmir
BJP has become increasingly conscious of the fact that its development and peace narrative has not picked up as much pace as it should have in Kashmir. The massive goodwill and the…
- Pakistan
Pakistan lodges protest with India over its citizen’s death in Kashmir
Islamabad: Pakistan has called in India’s Charge d’Affaires here to lodge a strong protest over the death of a Pakistani prisoner in Kashmir, in what it termed as a “fake encounter”. The…