Campaign on to remove tourist’s fears about J&K

Ahead of the tourism season, the J&K Government has launched a major media and promotional blitz across India to dispel ‘fears’ among tourists about Kashmir, post the Pulwama suicide attack of February 14. Some of leading Bollywood personalities will also be involved in promotional activities to project the peaceful face of J&K. After the terror attack in which more than 40 CRPF personnel were killed, the tourism sector received a major setback, with large scale cancellations and travel agencies receiving requests to divert tours to other states, a blow to…

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Militants and their sympathizers​ will be deal sternly: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that his government’s “tough stance” against militancy is “giving sleepless nights” to the Congress and local parties in Jammu and Kashmir, including the PDP and NC. Starting his political campaign for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with a rally in Dummi area of Akhnoor tehsil in Jammu district, Modi held the Congress, NC and PDP responsible for the “present mess” in J&K, saying these parties have “always played politics which has benefited Pakistan and its sympathisers in the country”. “This is the result…

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BJP left red-faced as Lal Singh refuses to withdraw papers

In a major embarrassment to the BJP, its rebel leader Choudhary Lal Singh has refused to withdraw papers from the Jammu-Poonch parliamentary seat.BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav on Wednesday announced that the party leadership was talking to Lal Singh to convince him to withdraw his nomination from both seats of the Jammu region. The last day of withdrawal of nomination papers for the Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha seat, which is going to the polls in the first phase of elections on April 11, was Thursday. Returning Officer for the Jammu-Poonch…

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Article 35A constitutionally vulnerable, hampering J&K’s development: Arun Jaitley

Finance minister Arun Jaitley Thursday said Article 35A, which restricts non-permanent residents to buy property in Jammu and Kashmir, is “constitutionally vulnerable” and also hampering economic development of the state.The statement comes amidst the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pressing for early elections to the assembly in the state, which is presently under president’s rule. In a blog, Jaitley said the seven-decade history of Jammu and Kashmir confronts “changing India” with several questions. “Was the Nehruvian course, which the state had embarked, a historical blunder or was it the correct course…

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Modi not my enemy but Rahul Gandhi acknowledged torture I was facing in BJP: Shatrughan Sinha

Shatrughan Sinha said his attacks on BJP were not aimed at any individual. He said he never spoke against an individual but only on issues. “No individual is above the party.” Rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shatrughan Sinha, who is set to join the Congress, has said he is still “officially” part of the BJP but is on the “right track”. In an exclusively interview with India Today TV, Shatrughan Sinha, the present Lok Sabha MP from Patna Sahib, said he is “disappointed” on being denied ticket from Patna…

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