Manoj Sinha, who addressed J-K UT Foundation Day celebrations, said that the Prime Minister and Home Minister Amit Shah have assured that statehood will be given at an appropriate time.
In its first cabinet meeting, the Omar Abdullah led government has reportedly passed a resolution asking the Centre to restore statehood of Jammu and Kashmir that was downgraded as a Union Territory on 5 August 2019.
Targeting the BJP-led government at the Centre, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that the INDIA bloc will use its full force within the Parliament and even hit the roads if the statehood to Jammu and Kashmir is not restored after the ongoing assembly elections.
Protestors raised slogans in support of their 4-point charter of demands, statehood for the UT, Constitutional safeguards under the Sixth Schedule for Ladakh, guarantees for job reservation for locals and separate Lok Sabha seats for the two districts.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Narendra Modi-led central government for a roadmap for restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s…
Is there anything for a political party to celebrate when the people are mourning the targeted killings going on unabated, especially after the BJP’s ascendance to power," questioned Singh while addressing public meetings in Udhampur district.
The former Congress president said that the Kashmiri pandit employees were just asking for their rights and were not “begging”
Local bodies in public perception are cesspools of corruption; councilors and executives in a cosy relationship to share the pie.
In a tweet in Hindi Prime Minister Modi said it was his wish to see the state nestled amid the cradle of nature continues its march towards progress and play an important role in the country's development.
The Democrats, thanks to whose majority in the House the bill was passed in the lower chamber last year, have framed the long unresolved and controversial issue from the perspective of equal representation and voting rights, arguing that the status of "taxation without representation" for the total of over 700,000 Washingtonians should end.
