Mehbooba Mufti, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, has been given notice to leave the government apartment she is currently occupying in the Anantnag district of south Kashmir, according to officials. She was given a 24-hour notice to Continue Reading
The Press Council of India’s (PCI) fact-finding committee found that “news media in the Jammu & Kashmir region, particularly in the Valley, is slowly being choked primarily due to the extensive curbs imposed by the local administration.” “There is also the threat of militant violence, which serves as a deterrent,” the committee wrote in Continue Reading
The daughter of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti, Iltija Javed, has described the government’s move to scrap the special status assured to the people 0f Kashmir in the Indian constitution and to bifurcate the state into the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh as “undemocratic”. […]Continue Reading
Amit Shah, Union Home Minister announced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has decided to repeal Article 370 of the Constitution, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Amit Shah moved the amendment amid uproar by opposition members. “I am presenting the resolution to revoke Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir except the first […]Continue Reading
Days after PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti submitted her resignation expressing her interest to step down from the position of Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, the state governor, N N Vohra, has assumed the helm of the administration of the state. The governor has made the move, after he received the accent of the […]Continue Reading