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Youth congress demands ban on sale of liquor in JK

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J&K Pradesh Youth Congress State General Secretary and Executive Member J&K Pradesh Congress committee Sheikh Aamir Rasool today demanded blanket ban on consumption and sale of liquor in J&K State. “Six states including Kerala, Bihar, Nagaland, Manipur, Gujarat and Mizoram have already banned the liquor. The J&K State government should also consider banning it in the state,” said Aamir Rasool in a statement today . Liquor is root cause of dwindling household economy and domestic and social violence across the state he said. Aamir Rasool further said that total prohibition…

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Geelani vouches for safety of non-local students

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Lashes out at GoI over harassment of Kashmiri students outside JK Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani on his return to Valley on Wednesday vouched for safety of non-local students in NIT campus and criticized Government of India (GoI) on harassment of Kashmiri students studying outside the State. “Our religion teaches us not to have any hatred with people on the basis of religion, race or nationality,” Geelani told reporters, here. He arrived here this afternoon after spending two months in New Delhi, where he underwent treatment. He was…

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Will Centre intervene when Kashmiri students are harassed elsewhere? Omar on NIT Row

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Former chief minister Omar Abdullah says wrong precedent set by making these happenings at NIT a massive story, and having central forces and special teams from HRD ministry brought in. Former chief minister Omar Abdullah says wrong precedent set by making these happenings at NIT a massive story, and having central forces and special teams from HRD ministry brought in. How do you look at the situation at NIT in Srinagar? Is it a small campus skirmish or something bigger? We tend to take these things out of proportions. Campus…

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Decisive measures needed to end despair in JK : Mehbooba

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Mehbooba Mufti is the first ever woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. A day after taking over, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said “decisive measures” would be required to end the scenario of “despair and trust-deficit” in the state and informed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had committed full support from the Centre. “The Prime Minister called me this morning, immediately on his return from Saudi Arabia, reassuring me of full support from the Government of India in mitigating the sufferings of the people of…

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Key departments, including Home, to remain under CM’s control

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will be heading key departments in Jammu and Kashmir, including Home, Planning and Tourism. On Monday, after being sworn-in as the first woman Chief Minister of J&K, Mehbooba assigned portfolios to 16 ministers in her cabinet. Six ministers of state were also assigned the charges. The departments under Mehbooba include Home, Tourism, Planning, General Administration, Information, Hospitality and Protocol, Civil Aviation, Horticulture, Ladakh Affairs, and Tribal Affairs. Earlier during the day, Mehbooba withdrew charge of the Tribal Affairs Department from ChoudharyZulfikar Ali. The Mehbooba-led cabinet was…

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PM reassured support in mitigating people’s suffering: Mehbooba

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Asks ministers to throw open doors for people Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday urged his ministers to throw open their doors for people and told public if they fail to redress their grievances, they should register complaint against the ministers with the CM’s office. Addressing a gathering of people at the Chief Minister’s residence at Wazarat Road in Jammu, Mehbooba in presence of her senior cabinet colleagues Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu, Education Minister Naeem Akhtar and Minister for IT, Youth Services and Sports, and Technical Education, Imran Raza Ansari told…

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BJP extends olive branch to PDP

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‘Art 35-A, beef and State flag issues trivial, shouldn’t be raised’ The rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday extended an olive branch to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) promising no one should raise issues that disturb peace in the State. Talking to us in his civil secretariat chambers in Jammu, senior BJP leader Chaudhary Lal Singh termed the issues like revocation of Article 35-A, which ensures a special status to Jammu Kashmir, consumption of beef and unfurling of State’s flag raised by rightwing parties during the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led PDP-BJP government as…

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Mehbooba needs to come clean on her meeting with PM: Omar

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National Conference working president Omar Abdullah today said the people of Jammu and Kashmir had the right to know what the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had got from New Delhi that prompted it to form the government with the BJP after three months of bargaining and theatrical posturing. “Mehbooba Mufti needs to come clean on her meeting with the Prime Minister and what transpired between the two over the so-called confidence-building measures that the PDP claimed to have sought from the Central government,” Omar said while addressing a workers’ rally…

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87 Day Guv rule in J&K ends

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Governor NN Vohra today issued a proclamation to revoke the proclamation issued on January 9 to enforce Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir following the swearing-in ceremony of the PDP-BJP alliance this morning. With the fresh proclamation, the Governor’s rule in the state comes to an end after 87 days. The Governor’s rule was imposed on January 8 following the death of then CM Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. The latter proclamation was issued in exercise of the powers conferred on the Governor under Section 92 of the Constitution of Jammu and…

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Karra boycotts Swearing-In, Congress says ‘unholy’ alliance

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Even as the nearly three-month stalemate on government formation has come to an end, the ruling party Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is mired in fresh controversy with Member of Parliament Tariq Karra questioning the induction of some senior leaders in the Council of Ministers by Mehbooba Mufti. Karra boycotted the oath-taking ceremony and has sought removal of three senior leaders Haseeb Drabu, Altaf Bukhari and Naeem Akhtar. He blamed them for being in the “forefront” of a “coup” against Mehbooba Mufti when the latter was negotiating the re-alliance with the…

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