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Rotten Meat Scandal in Kashmir: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Demands Transparency, Accountability & Urgent Food Safety Reforms

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Rotten Meat Scandal in Kashmir: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Demands Transparency, Accountability & Urgent Food Safety Reforms

Rotten Meat Scandal in Kashmir: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Demands Transparency, Accountability & Urgent Food Safety Reforms By: Javid Amin | 05 December 2025 A governance lapse becomes a moral crisis as Kashmir’s top religious leader amplifies public anger and calls for decisive action. A Scandal That Shook Public Trust Kashmir has weathered countless challenges—political, economic, environmental—but few issues strike as close to home as something as basic and universal as food safety. When the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) uncovered tonnes of rotten, unlabelled, and potentially unlawful meat being sold…

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Names Don’t Rule – Governance Does: Why Omar Abdullah Says Renaming Raj Bhavan to Lok Bhavan Means Little Without Real Delivery

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Names Don’t Rule – Governance Does: Why Omar Abdullah Says Renaming Raj Bhavan to Lok Bhavan Means Little Without Real Delivery

Omar Abdullah dismissed the renaming of Raj Bhavan as mere symbolism, quoting Shakespeare’s famous line “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” to stress that governance matters more than nomenclature. By: Javid Amin | 04 December 2025 When Names Change, But Will Governance? Across India, governor residences once known as “Raj Bhavan” are being rechristened “Lok Bhavan.” The shift, directed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), is presented as part of a larger push towards a more “people-centric” and post-colonial sensibility…

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Mehbooba Mufti Strikes Back: PDP Launches Grassroots Offensive as She Declares J&K Government Has ‘Failed on All Fronts’

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Mehbooba Mufti Strikes Back: PDP Launches Grassroots Offensive as She Declares J&K Government Has ‘Failed on All Fronts’

Mehbooba Mufti Slams J&K Govt: PDP Rolls Out Grassroots Strategy Ahead of Urban Local Body Polls By: Javid Amin | 03 December 2025 A Sharpening Political Battlefield in Kashmir When Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti declared that the Jammu & Kashmir government has “failed on all fronts,” she did more than criticise the administration — she reset her party’s political posture. As the region gears up for Urban Local Body (ULB) elections, Mehbooba’s message was not just a critique but a strategic call to arms: PDP must go…

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J&K Deputy CM Demands Probe into Journalist’s House Demolition — Flags ‘Selective Action’ by JDA

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J&K Deputy CM Demands Probe into Journalist’s House Demolition — Flags 'Selective Action' by JDA

A Bulldozer Drive, a Journalist’s Loss, and Growing Political Storm By: Javid Amin | 29 November 2025 In late November 2025, a demolition drive by the Jammu Development Authority (JDA) reduced to rubble the modest home of journalist Arfaz Ahmad Daing in the Transport Nagar (Narwal) area of Jammu. The house, reportedly built by his father decades ago, was razed without prior public notice — triggering widespread shock. What followed was not just sympathy for a displaced family, but a cascade of political reactions, demands for accountability, and a struggle…

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Statehood Standoff in Jammu & Kashmir: A Fresh Political Flashpoint

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Statehood Standoff in Jammu & Kashmir: A Fresh Political Flashpoint

Statehood Debate in Jammu & Kashmir: Sinha vs Choudhary and the Governance Divide By: Javid Amin | 01 November 2025 The region of Jammu & Kashmir has once again become a crucible of political discourse, this time centred on the question of statehood and the division of powers between the elected government and the Union Territory administration. This confrontation has been brought to the fore by a pointed intervention from the Lieutenant Governor and an equally pointed response from his elected deputy. In short: Manoj Sinha, serving as Lieutenant Governor…

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J&K Assembly Storm: Speaker Disallows Flood-Rehab Discussion, BJP MLAs Stage Walkout | Governance & Disaster Response

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J&K Assembly Storm: Speaker Disallows Flood-Rehab Discussion, BJP MLAs Stage Walkout | Governance & Disaster Response

During the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly’s autumn session on October 30, 2025, Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather disallowed an adjournment motion on flood rehabilitation, prompting BJP MLAs to stage a walkout in protest. By: Javid Amin | 30 October 2025 On October 30, 2025, during the autumn session of the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly in Srinagar, tensions mounted sharply when the Speaker, Abdul Rahim Rather, declined to admit an adjournment motion by BJP MLAs pressing for a discussion on the August floods that hit the Jammu region. The BJP legislators,…

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The Push for Hindi: How Jammu & Kashmir’s Language Policy is Redrawing Cultural Lines

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The Push for Hindi: How Jammu & Kashmir’s Language Policy is Redrawing Cultural Lines

The Policy Shift By: Javid Amin | 28 October 2025 The Jammu & Kashmir government is taking firm steps to increase the use of Hindi in official correspondence and administration, signaling a new linguistic direction in the Union Territory’s governance framework. This move aligns with the Jammu & Kashmir Official Languages Act, 2020, which recognizes Hindi as one of the five official languages alongside Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri, and English. While officials describe it as a push for inclusivity and modernization, linguists and cultural observers warn that the growing preference for…

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Electrifying U-Turn: Omar Abdullah’s Prepaid Meter Push Sparks Public Outrage

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Electrifying U-Turn: Omar Abdullah’s Prepaid Meter Push Sparks Public Outrage

Where Has the Free Electricity Promise Gone? By: Javid Amin | 17 October 2025 Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s government is under fire after announcing a full-scale rollout of prepaid smart electricity meters across Jammu & Kashmir — a move sharply contrasting with his 2024 election promise of providing 200 units of free electricity per month to poor households. The announcement has unleashed a wave of anger and disillusionment, with opposition parties branding it a “betrayal of the poor” and civil society groups accusing the administration of “digitalizing hardship under the…

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Darbar Move Returns: Omar Abdullah Revives 147-Year-Old Tradition in Jammu and Kashmir

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Darbar Move Returns: Omar Abdullah Revives 147-Year-Old Tradition in Jammu and Kashmir

A 19th-Century Tradition Reborn — A Step Toward Restoring Identity and Balance By: Javid Amin | 16 October 2025 In a landmark decision that blends history, symbolism, and politics, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has officially announced the revival of the Darbar Move, the 147-year-old biannual tradition of shifting the seat of government between Jammu and Srinagar. The decision, approved by the Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet in September 2025 and signed off by the Lieutenant Governor, restores one of the most distinctive administrative customs in India — one that was discontinued…

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Omar Abdullah at One Year: Promise, Patience and the Politics of Expectation

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Omar Abdullah at One Year: Promise, Patience and the Politics of Expectation

Omar Abdullah Completes One Year — Statehood, Jobs and the Credibility Test | Jammu & Kashmir Politics 2025 By: Javid Amin | 15 October 2025 One year after Omar Abdullah’s National Conference (NC) returned to power on a program promising “Dignity, Identity and Development”, the administration’s scoreboard is thin: symbolic wins exist, structural reforms do not. Statehood restoration and constitutional remedies remain unrealized; major employment and police-reform promises are still pending. At the same time the political environment shows fleeting openings — alliance tensions with Congress over Rajya Sabha seat-sharing,…

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