Tag: Kashmir
In a big triumph for the government, the Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill 2019 and adopted the resolution to scrap the Constitution's Article 370 paving way for bifurcation of the state into two Union territories (UTs) and allowing people from other states to buy land there.....
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the government over its decision to revoke Article 370 that gave Jammu and Kashmir special status and said the abuse of executive power has grave implications for national security.....
There are no reports of violence in the Valley ever since the withdrawal of special status to Jammu and Kashmir and its bifurcation but the ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC) since the decision, according to a security assessment.....
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday returned to Delhi after he was stopped at the Srinagar airport and slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for destroying the identity of Jammu and Kashmir by revoking Article 370 and demanded an apology from them.....
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres came out on Thursday against changing the status of Jammu and Kashmir and backed Security Council resolutions, of which the main one requires Pakistan to withdraw all its nationals from Kashmir.....
India on Friday said it is time for Pakistan to accept the reality of change in status of Jammu and Kashmir and stop interfering in what is entirely an internal matter of India, even as it urged Islamabad to review its unilateral decision to snap ties.....
After Pakistan announced it was cancelling the Samjhauta Express, India on Sunday cancelled Samjhauta Link Express running between Delhi and Atari.....
The BJP on Monday termed as "unfortunate" the comments of senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram who is reported to have said that had Kashmir been a Hindu majority state, the BJP wouldn't have revoked Article 370.....
The future of Sino-Indian ties depends on mutual sensitivity to each other's core concerns and it's vital to "not let differences become disputes", External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar conveyed this to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, here on Monday, as the two sides met for the first time after exchanges became a bit frosty over the changed status of Jammu and Kashmir.....
India's Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringla has said that American President Donald Trump's mediation offer on Kashmir was "not on the table anymore" and "unlikely to happen", a media report said on Tuesday.....