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GoI assures return of assets to Kashmiri Migrants: Nityanand Rai

April 8, 2022 Editor

The Modi Government is capable and making efforts to restore assets to Kashmiri migrants and so far properties of 610 applicants have been returned, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said in Rajya Sabha today. Responding to queries during the Question Hour in the Upper House, the Minister said the District Magistrate has been designated as the custodian of the migrants’ properties. The State Government has also started a portal to resolve the complaints of migrants. “The Modi Government and Home Minister are capable of returning the…

Evolve mechanism to identify illegal immigrants from Myanmar, Bangladesh: High Court to Govt

April 7, 2022 Editor

The Jammu & Kashmir high court has directed the home secretary of the union territory, RK Goyal, to evolve a mechanism for the identification of illegal immigrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh and to prepare a list after identifying them. The court’s directions came on a PIL filed by lawyer Hunar Gupta, who sought directions to the J&K government for appointing and issuing necessary directions to a former retired judge to hold an inquiry to identify all the illegal immigrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, who have migrated and settled in J&K.…

Mehbooba Mufti pursuing Pakistan agenda, claims Surinder Choudhary her loyalist after joining BJP

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022 Editor

Choudhary, while addressing the gathering, recalled how J&K BJP chief Ravinder Raina had approached him in 2014 to contest elections on a BJP ticket Former PDP member of the legislative council from Nowshera and once a close confidante of former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, Surinder Choudhary, joined the BJP in the presence of party’s national general secretary and J&K in-charge Tarun Chugh. “It is the PDP, which deceived me and not vice versa,” he said while accusing Mehbooba Mufti of ruining the party and pursuing the Pakistani agenda. Jammu…

Post terror attacks migrant workers from Bihar start returning from Kashmir

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022 Editor

A large number of migrant workers from Bihar left for their homes on Tuesday from Kashmir’s Pulwama district and some others are preparing to leave following the terrorist attack on Monday in which two labourers suffered gunshot injuries. A large number of migrant workers from Bihar left for their homes on Tuesday from Kashmir’s Pulwama district and some others are preparing to leave following the terrorist attack on Monday in which two labourers suffered gunshot injuries. Speaking over the phone from Awantipora railway station in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, Pappu…

Ex-minister’s involvement in Hawala racket has opened Pandora’s Box: Kavinder Gupta

April 2, 2022 Editor

Following the arrest of a Kashmir man with ₹6.90 lakh Hawala money, who claimed that former minister Jatinder Singh alias Babu Singh had given him the task, former J&K deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta on Friday said that the incident proved how deep was nexus ran between ministers of previous governments in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan, Hurriyat and anti-national elements during militancy Following the arrest of a Kashmir man with ₹6.90 lakh Hawala money, who claimed that former minister Jatinder Singh alias Babu Singh had given him the task,…

Post abrogation of Article 370, 34 Persons from other parts of India have bought properties in J&K: GoI

March 30, 2022 Editor

Thirty-four people from other parts of India have bought properties in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) since the nullification of the Constitution’s Article 370, which stripped the region of its semi-autonomous status in 2019, Union minister Nityanand Rai told Parliament on Tuesday. In his written reply, Rai did not provide details of the properties in Jammu, Reasi, Udhampur, and Ganderbal and their owners. The Centre last year said two people from outside purchased land in the region. Non-residents were barred from buying immovable properties in the erstwhile state of J&K before…

BJP consolidated its vote bank via Delimitation Commission: Mehbooba Mufti

March 27, 2022 Editor

Accusing Delimitation Commission of carrying out a flawed exercise, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday raised questions on its integrity and called it a “BJP commission” Accusing the Delimitation panel of carrying out a flawed exercise, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday again raised questions on its integrity and called it a “BJP commission”. She said that “the PDP is an eyesore for the BJP because we oppose their arm-twisting tactics and revocation of Article 370.” Responding to media queries in Ramban…

No Peace in Kashmir until govt holds dialogue with Pakistan, J&K People: Mehbooba Mufti

March 27, 2022 Editor

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday reiterated her call to the BJP government for dialogue with Pakistan and the people of Jammu and Kashmir, saying that peace would be elusive as long as the Kashmir issue remained unresolved. She called upon people to vote for the constituents of the People’s Alliance for Gukpar Declaration (PAGD) – an alliance of several parties, including the National Conference, PDP, and Communist Party of India (Marxist) – in the next assembly elections to defeat the BJP’s attempt to gain power and seal its “wrong…

‘The Kashmir Files’ is aimed to divide people, omitted Jagmohan’s role: Sitaram Yechury

March 25, 2022 Editor

Senior communist leader and Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday hit out at the makers of The Kashmir Files claiming the film is aimed to divide people. He questioned why only Kashmiri Pandits left the Valley when Muslims, Sikhs, and others too had suffered during militancy in the initial years. The CPI(M) leader said the film will have ramifications on the ground as it is polarising people based on religion. “The people belonging to any religion or sect including Muslims, Sikhs, and Kashmir Pandits have suffered…

Jawaharlal Nehru of internationalize the ‘Kashmir Issue’ by taking it to the United Nations: Nirmala Sitharaman

March 23, 2022 Editor

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday accused India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of internationalizing the Kashmir issue by taking it to the United Nations. Speaking in Rajya Sabha Sitharaman said the issue should not have gone to the global forum as it was an internal issue. Nehru had appealed to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) through a petition filed in January 1948 — after the outbreak of the first war between India and Pakistan. Based on his petition, the council had established the United Nations Commission for…