Category: NATIONAL NEWS

New Delhi, Aug 5 (DIN NEWS) Terming the government’s move on Article 370 “unilateral and shocking”, former chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said it was a total “betrayal of trust” of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday moved a resolution in both the Houses of Parliament that Article 370 will not be applicable to the state. “Government of India (GOI)’s unilateral and shocking decisions today are a total betrayal of the trust that the people of Jammu & Kashmir had reposed…

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The National Conference on Sunday voiced concern over the uncertain and uptight situation in Jammu and Kashmir and said the party would fight against any infringement of the special constitutional status of the state.The NC had a four-hour-long meeting of its party’s political affairs committee (PAC) over the current situation in the valley. The meeting was chaired by party vice-president Omar Abdullah. After the meeting, an NC spokesperson said, the party called for “effective and immediate” measures to instill confidence among the people in Kashmir.He said the party is willing…

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Four militants, including a commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Baramulla and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir in the last 36 hours, police said on Saturday.While two militants were killed in Sopore township of Baramulla district of north Kashmir, two others were killed in Shopian district of south Kashmir in an operation which began on Friday, a police official said.Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Warpora area of Sopore on Saturday and two JeM militants were killed in…

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The “gloves are finally off and India has chosen territory over people”, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday as speculations grew in the valley about some possible major decisions regarding the state’s special status.“You failed to win over the love of a single Muslim majority state which rejected division on religious grounds & chose secular India. The gloves are finally off & India has chosen territory over people,” Mehbooba, the PDP president, wrote on Twitter. She said New Delhi seemed to be preparing “to rob”…

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Billionaire coffee tycoon V G Siddhartha, who went missing since Monday, is dead and his body was recovered from the banks of the Nethravathi river near Mangaluru in Karnataka on Wednesday.59-year-old Siddhartha, son-in-law of BJP leader and former External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, was cremated in a sombre atmosphere after hundreds of people paid a tearful homage to the ‘Coffee King” at his Chetanahali estate in his ancestral village in Chikkamagaluru where hundreds of people gathered to pay their last respects.Siddhartha, whose chain of cafes helped make coffee a…

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Opposition Congress, BSP and SP on Tuesday accused the ruling BJP of “extending patronage” to party MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who has been accused of raping a minor girl. Jailed BJP MLA Sengar and nine others were booked for murder on Monday, a day after the car in which the 19-year old rape survivor, her family and lawyer were travelling was hit by a speeding truck in Rae Bareli, killing two members and leaving her and the advocate critically injured.The Unnao rape survivor’s family filed a complaint, alleging “conspiracy” behind…

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Cautioning party workers against arrogance, senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said they should win over more people with their hard work and decent behaviour.Addressing ‘BJP Karykarta Sammelan’ in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, Naqvi said the “disease of arrogance and egotism” can be cured with the help of the “medicine of decency and humility”.Quoting an old saying that “the tree that has the most fruit is the tree that bends to the ground”, the Minority Affairs minister said power becomes the cause of arrogance for some people.History teaches that…

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From the humdrum existence as a government clerk and a hardware storeowner to becoming the chief minister for a fourth time, B S Yediyurappa has navigated the choppy waters of politics with the consummate ease of a seasoned oarsman.The rare smile is back on the ever grim-looking Yediyurappa’s face as he took over as the chief minister, 14 months after he demitted the office, unable to prove the majority in the State Assembly.In a repeat of sorts, it has not been an easy ascent to power for the 76-year-old Lingayat…

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Hitting out at the Congress for opposing the Bill to make the practice of instant triple talaq illegal, Union Minority Affairs Minister Naqvi on Thursday said the country was suffering because of the “sin” committed by the Congress in 1986.“On May 5, 1986 there was a very important verdict of Supreme Court on the rights of Muslim women. In this house……(in) 1986 in order to make this verdict ineffective the government at that time came out with a law,” Naqvi said intervening in the debate on The Muslim Women (Protection…

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New Delhi, Jul 24 (DIN NEWS) Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday defended amendments to an anti-terror law, saying they are was essential to keep law enforcement agencies one step ahead of terrorists. Responding to a debate in Lok Sabha on a bill seeking to amend the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, he asserted anti-terror laws would not be misused and used only to root out terrorism. He said that provision in UAPA (amendment) bill, which was later passed in the Lower House by a voice vote, to designate a person…

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