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Germany returns idol stolen from Kashmir

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Germany on Monday returned to India a 10th century Durga idol that had gone missing from a temple in Kashmir over two decades ago. The idol was handed over by visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after their talks here, three years after it was spotted in a museum in Stuttgart. Mr. Modi thanked Ms. Merkel and the people of Germany, saying: “The statue is from Jammu and Kashmir and is a symbol of victory of good over evil.” The idol in Mahishasuramardini avatar was stolen…

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Speaker adjourns Kashmir assembly, says ‘proud to be an RSS man’

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“I am proud to be an RSS man,” Kavinder Gupta said before he adjourned the house for the whole day. The speaker of Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly asserted that he was a “proud RSS man” when members of opposition parties shouted slogans against the RSS in the house. “I am proud to be an RSS man,” Kavinder Gupta said before he adjourned the house for the whole day. Earlier, opposition parties led by Ali Mohammad Sagar of National Conference (NC) stood up from their benches and raised anti RSS…

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All eyes on SC hearing over Beef Ban Issue

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Apex court lifeline to Govt  All eyes are set on the Supreme Court hearing on the issue of slaughter of bovine and the ban on sale of beef in the State. The Apex court is hearing a plea against two different orders of the State High Court pertaining to slaughter of the bovines and enforcement of ban on sale of beef. The SC hearing has provided a lifeline to the seven-month-old coalition government of the Peoples Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janta Party as the stand taken by the two parties…

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In Srinagar vs Jammu tussle, JK may lose Smart City race

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At a time when most of the states are discussing plans and models to make their cities best under the Smart City Project, the Union Government is yet to make its choice in selection of a city or cities in Jammu and Kashmir. More than a month has passed since the Union Minister of Urban Development, M Venkaiah Naidu, announced the list of 98 Smart Cities excluding any city from Jammu and Kashmir citing reasons that the state had sought more time to decide on its choice between Srinagar and…

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Omar’s tweets ‘childish, based on little knowledge’: Hurriyat (G)

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Terming the tweet of National Conference working president Omar Abdullah about Pakistan as ‘childish and based on little knowledge’, Hurriyat Conference (G) Saturday said not only Pakistani leadership but everyone in Kashmir knows the course of implementation of the UN resolutions and that is India and Pakistan have to pullout their respective troops simultaneously from Jammu and Kashmir. Hurriyat (G) spokesman addressing Omar Abdullah said that when India is totally refusing the UN resolutions then why should Pakistan demilitarize its controlled area? “The main and major hurdle in the implementation…

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OIC reaffirms Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination

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Foreign Ministers of Islamic countries have called for resolution of the decades-old Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India. At their annual coordination meeting, the foreign ministers of 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) adopted the reports of various OIC Contact Groups, including the one on Jammu & Kashmir, which reaffirmed the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions. The meeting was chaired by Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, Foreign Minister of Kuwait and attended by Foreign Ministers of member states…

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Srinagar-Qazigund four laning stretch may be delayed

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Four-laning of the Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, which has missed the deadline last year, may get further delayed with little progress on completion of 75 per cent of work by the end of September. Having missed the deadlines, work on this 66-km project, part of the prestigious Srinagar-Kanyakumari national highway corridor, was further delayed due to floods last year. With the intervention of the state government, which came under heavy criticism early this year due to the dilapidated condition of the road, the construction company was asked…

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13 months later, flood victims angry over slow rehabilitation

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Thirteen months after the devastating floods, thousands of victims are angry over the paltry compensation provided by the state’s coalition government, which had promised swift rehabilitation. The state government has so far provided no compensation to thousands of affected businesses, which suffered great losses during the last year’s devastating floods with Srinagar city’s main trading centres submerged for over a month. “The business community is not happy as they have not received anything,” Mushtaq Wani, president of the Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries, told. Wani, who represents more than…

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Pak fudging facts on UN resolutions: Omar

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Jitendra slams Islamabad for ‘exporting’ terrorism to India Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today knocked down Pakistan’s foundation on UN resolutions on Kashmir by reminding it that it had to vacate the Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir (POJK) first. Omar, who is the grandson of first Prime Minister of J&K Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, blamed Pakistan for fudging facts regarding the UN resolutions on Kashmir. “Will someone please remind Pakistan that as per these UNSC resolutions, they were supposed to vacate ALL of J&K 1st,” he wrote on microblogging site Twitter. Omar said…

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‘Core issue’ of Kashmir will always top bilateral talks: Pakistan

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The “core issue” of Kashmir will always top the agenda of any bilateral talks, Pakistan has said while responding to India’s assertion that dialogue can begin only when Islamabad stops backing terrorism. Pakistan outlined its stance while exercising its “right of reply” to respond to foreign minister Sushma Swaraj’s address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday, when she said that Islamabad should focus on the issue of terrorism instead of the four-point peace initiative proposed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. “The core issue of Jammu and Kashmir cannot be…

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