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GoI changes laws to aid the construction of armed forces facilities outside cantonments

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Slum rehabilitation, Special townships, New Housing Policy approved in J&K Over 2 lakh houses to be built in the next few years 7 models of housing development in JK The Administrative Council (AC), which met here under the chairmanship of Lieutenant Governor, G C Murmu, accorded sanction to the proposal of Housing and Urban Development Department for adoption and notification of J&K Housing, Affordable Housing, Slum Redevelopment, and Rehabilitation and Township Policy, 2020. The policy envisages seven models of housing, ranging from in-situ slum redevelopment to integrated township, to cater…

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Udhampur – Srinagar -Baramulla railway link to completed by 2022: V.K. Yadav

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The Indian Railways is hopeful it will complete the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link by December 2022 and the central government is closely monitoring its progress, Railway Board Chairman V.K. Yadav said on Friday. Addressing a virtual press conference, Yadav said, “Execution of the last stretch of 111 km from Katra to Banihal is in progress and the project is targeted to be completed by December 2022.” The Chairman stressed that the balance section of the project is one of the most challenging tasks as it entails large scale tunneling and bridge…

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GoI has done only experiments through amendments & new laws failed to deliver post-August 5: Shiv Sena

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Jammu and Kashmir Shiv Sena chief Manish Sahani Tuesday accused the Central government of failing to deliver post the abrogation of article 370 stating that the situation in Kashmir is not concealed from anyone.  Manish Sahani, who heads the J&K chapter of Shiv Sena said that the government has miserably failed to deliver post-August 5 and it has only done experiments of new provisions and amendments in the newly carved union territory.  Sahani said the central government was doing experiments of fresh provisions and amendments in Jammu and Kashmir leaving…

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No rolling back of Article 370, but Legislative Assembly soon: Ram Madhav

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Hitting out at regional parties of the Union Territory (UT), the BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav today ruled out rollback of the decision to revoke Article 370 that granted special status to the erstwhile J&K state. Madhav also dared the National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership to go to the people on ground over Article 370, abolished on August 5 last year, instead of tweeting from closed doors. “There can be a political discourse. Go to the people and tell them that we want Article 370…

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Restore JK’s Special Status with Dignity, Won’t beg for It’: Congress to BJP

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‘Why did you (BJP) take away the special status of Jammu and Kashmir? Why did you bifurcate Jammu and Kashmir in the first place?” the Congress leader asked. A day after the BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav said that the BJP wants to restore the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir, Congress party on Saturday said the ruling party should restore it without “beating around the bush”. “First of all, they should tell us why they took away statehood of Jammu and Kashmir. If they want to restore it, restore it…

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Dr. Farooq back in limelight after 10 months; Says Domicile Policy is “Illegal and Unconstitutional”

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For the past two days, National Conference president and five-time former chief minister Farooq Abdullah is back in the open with Kashmir-centric political messaging as he called the domicile policy for J&K as “illegal and unconstitutional” which he seems to be using as a stepping stone for staging a comeback in the politically vacant space in Kashmir . Farooq Abdullah, 83, ventured out in public this weekend for the first time since release from more than seven-month long detention under PSA in March this year. He was detained on August…

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NC, PDP reject Domicile Law, move aimed at changing J&K’s demography

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The National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday rejected the J&K Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) Order, 2020, and the J&K Grant of Domicile Certificate ( Procedure) Rules 2020, saying “it was aimed at changing the demography of the erstwhile State of J&K”. An NC spokesman said the amended domicile law was made in exercise of power under the J&K Reorganization Act 2019, “which stands challenged in the number of petitions before the Supreme Court”. “With the constitutional validity of the Act impugned and the petitions under the consideration of…

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Domicile is a reality now, LG inaugurates online services for issuance of Domicile Certificate

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Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today launched the e-Application-cum-issuance of Domicile Certificate, developed by Jammu and Kashmir e-Governance Agency (JaKeGA), here at the Raj Bhavan. With the launch of this service, the count of the Government to Citizen (G2C) online services reached 27. It is an addition to the UT Government’s e-governance initiatives to speed up a public delivery mechanism through minimal human intervention, besides ensuring efficiency, transparency, and reliability of such services. BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary; Bipul Pathak, Principal Secretary to Lieutenant Governor and Administrative Secretary of Information Technology…

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Restore Pre-August 5 position of J&K: National Conference

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Statements to create an atmosphere of ‘peace, love and amity’ have no meaning unless the Centre respects the political aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, say 11 leaders of the party Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s all-party meeting over the Ladakh face-off with China and the death of 20 soldiers, the top leadership of the National Conference (NC) on Friday praised the BJP leadership’s reconciliatory tone and demanded the restoration of pre-August 5, 2019 constitutional position of Jammu and Kashmir and the unification of the Union Territories…

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Coronavirus: J&K recorded 149 fresh positive cases and 7 deaths in 24 hours

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By – Tahaa Yaseen Jammu Kashmir Thursday recorded 149 fresh COVID-19 cases that include 100 from Kashmir and 49 from Jammu, taking the infection tally to 5555. Thursday cases include 25 from Budgam, Pulwama 21, Baramulla 20, Udhampur 16, Kathua 12, Jammu and Srinagar 11 each, Shopian 10, Samba seven, Anantnag four, Kulgam and Bandipora three each, Kupwara and Poonch two each, and Ganderbal and Reasi one each.Of these cases, 38 tested positive at Viral Diagnostic and Research Lab (VDRL) of SKIMS Srinagar, which tested 1577 samples in the past…

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