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Kashmir local elections 2018: 69% of 598 wards did not witness polling

Separatists in the valley had also asked the people to boycott polls

Jammu-Srinagar highway reopens after three days closure due to heavy snow

Air traffic was also restored between the valley and the rest of the country on Sunday

MHA announces end of Ramzan ceasefire; security operations to resume in J&K

The Centre today decided not to extend the suspension of operations against terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir announced in the beginning of Ramazan. "The operations against the terrorists to resume," the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a statement. The government commends the security forces for having shown exemplary restraint during Ramazan despite grave provocations, it said. Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the government is committed to working for creating an environment free of terror and violence in Jammu and Kashmir. "The Government of India decides not to extend the suspension of operations in J&K announced in the beginning of Ramazan," the MHA said. The announcement comes days after senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari was shot dead in Srinagar.

Letter to BS: BJP-PDP divorce smacks of political opportunism

Everyone has the right to experiment and to learn from their mistakes. Why should the ruling party be denied this right?

Terror incidents down, infiltration bids up since abrogation of Article 370

Union minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy also said in Lok Sabha that the security forces neutralised 157 terrorists in 2019 so far

Normalcy in Kashmir 4 months after Article 370's revocation, internet shut

As per the 'new normal', students have started going to schools though without wearing uniforms. Schools have asked their pupils to attend classes in casual clothes for security reasons

No study on cost incurred for deployment of forces in JK after Aug 5: Govt

G Kishan Reddy also said a total of 5,161 people including stone pelters, overground workers, separatists etc., were taken into preventive custody in Kashmir Valley since August 4

Territories under J&K include PoK: Kishan Reddy in Lok Sabha

Reddy said in the Lok Sabha that the territory of the erstwhile state of J&K comprised the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir immediately before the commencement of the Constitution

Internet curb in Kashmir due to Pakistan's anti-India campaign online: Govt

In view of the aggressive anti-India social media posts being pushed from across the border, certain restrictions on internet have been resorted to: Govt

J&K: Attempt to set shops ablaze in Srinagar averted, investigation on

Late on Sunday night, an inflammable substance was sprinkled on a few shops in Lambert Lane market on Residency Road but alert residents of the building foiled the attempt to set the shops on fire

JKNPP calls for 'Jammu bandh' on Dec 7 against mobile service suspension

Mobile Internet services were snapped across Jammu region on August 4

BJP's 'Israeli policy' in Kashmir

What is good for the BJP may not necessarily be good for the Indian nation

Centre sanctions Rs 325 crore for new medical college in Kashmir's Handwara

The Centre has given its approval for a new government medical college, which will be attached with the district and referral hospital Handwara in north Kashmir, an official spokesman said on Sunday. The college in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district will be set up at a cost of Rs 325 crore under a centrally-sponsored scheme, he said. "The J&K government has received the sanction letter in this regard from the Union health and family welfare ministry," the spokesman said quoting a statement issued here by the administration of new medical colleges. Out of the total amount, Rs 115 crore will be spent on construction of administrative and academic blocks, Rs 80 crore on hostels and residential accommodation for students and faculty and Rs 60 crore for upgrading the existing teaching faculty at the district hospital, he said. The spokesman said, "Rs 70 crore will be used to procure machinery and equipment for the government medical college and its associated hospital." The ministry

Govt committed to applying all central laws to J&K, Ladakh: Jitendra Singh

The "prophets of doom" predicting "volcanos" in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 have "fallen silent" and the Centre is committed to implement all central laws in the Union territories of J&K and Ladakh, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday. Urging people to cooperate with the government in the implementation of the Central laws, Singh sought to assure them that all central laws are "citizen friendly" and meant to "benefit the last man in the queue" and "liberate the lower strata of society from the exploitation by the vested interests". "Let each one of us understand and keep reminding ourselves and those around us that the Article 370 is gone and gone forever. It is not going to come back. Even the prophets of doom who were talking of eruption of volcanos and occurrence of earthquakes have fallen silent," Singh said inaugurating a two-day regional conference here. The conference 'Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat' with focus on 'jal shakti' and disaster ..

Article 370 erased under false promise of new beginning: Sonia Gandhi

Gandhi said the BJP's pre-poll alliance did not hold because "of its own arrogance and over-confidence."

5,000 preventive arrests in J&K since Article 370 move; 609 still in jail

"Out of these, 609 people are presently under detention and out of which approximately 218 are stone pelters"

SC reserves verdict on pleas challenging restrictions in Jammu & Kashmir

Advocate Vrinda Grover, appearing for Kashmir Times Editor Anuradha Bhasin, termed the curbs 'unconstitutional' and said the restrictions have to pass the test of proportionality

Railways restores train services in Kashmir Valley after security audits

Train services in the valley were suspended on August 3, ahead of the Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370

Militants hurl grenades at Army camp in Pulwama; no casualties reported

The militants fired UBGL grenades at the camp

Why govt allowing EU MPs to visit J&K, but preventing Indian leaders: Cong

The Congress on Monday questioned the government for allowing a European Union delegation to visit Jammu and Kashmir while preventing Indian leaders from going to the state, and claimed that it was an insult to India's Parliament and democracy. Senior party leader Jairam Ramesh asked as to why the "chest-beating champion of nationalism", in an apparent swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has allowed European leaders to visit Jammu and Kashmir. "When Indian political leaders have been prevented from meeting the people of J&K, what possessed the great chest-beating champion of nationalism to allow European politicians to visit J&K. This is an outright insult to India's own Parliament and our democracy," he tweeted. A delegation of 25 Parliamentarians of the European Union are set to visit Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday to assess the ground situation there after abrogation of Article 370. They seek to talk to locals in Jammu and Kashmir and ask them about their ...