Kashmir Former Separatist

Sarjan Ahmad Wagay is set to take on former chief minister Omar Abdullah from the Ganderbal constituency in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.

A special TADA court has framed charges against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammd Yasin Malik and nine others in a 31-year-old kidnapping case involving Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

A ''new India'' where those who kill and lynch in the name of religion are feted and garlanded is "unacceptable", former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Wednesday.

As reports of a former research scholar killed in a shootout reached his hometown Anantnag on Wednesday, clashes broke out, even as the authorities continued to face a separatist standoff protesting Sunday's civilian deaths in Kulgam for the second consecutive day.

The Supreme Court today adjourned hearing of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Article 35-A, which gives special rights and privileges to people of Jammu and Kashmir, and fixed August 27 as the next date. The matter was to be heard by a three-judge bench, but since Justice DY Chandrachud wasn't available, Chief Justice Dipak ...

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has exposed her proximity with separatists by warning that if her Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was split it would create more terrorists in the state.

Lok Sabha member and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has advised separatists not to engage in talks with the Centre, saying they will get nothing.

Dineshwar Sharma, a former intelligence bureau chief has been appointed by the Centre as its interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir, Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced on Monday, calling the decision a follow-up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that "Kashmir's problems can only be solved by embracing Kashmiris".

Separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir have no business talking about Article 35A as they do not believe in the Constitution of India, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said today

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday ridiculed the government for placing three Kashmiri separatists under house arrest this morning and releasing them soon after, ahead of National Security Advisor-level talks between India and Pakistan.

Sajad Lone, an ally of the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, has refused to take charge as minister in the new state government because he is upset with his portfolio.

Separatist-turned-mainstream politician Sajjad Lone has won from Handwara in north Kashmir in the state assembly elections, held over five phases.

As the first leads came from Kashmir, where votes cast in staggered polling are being counted today, one of the candidates who took an early lead was separatist turned mainstream politician Sajjad Lone.

After a record turnout in the first phase, the high-voltage campaigning for the second leg of Assembly elections on December 2 in nine seats in Jammu and as many in Kashmir ended today, with several high-profile candidates including former separatist Sajad Lone and four state ministers trying their luck at the hustings.

Former Kashmiri separatist Sajjad Lone of the People's Conference met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, days before the state heads for five-phase elections from November 25.

Sarjan Ahmad Wagay is set to take on former chief minister Omar Abdullah from the Ganderbal constituency in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.

A special TADA court has framed charges against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammd Yasin Malik and nine others in a 31-year-old kidnapping case involving Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

A ''new India'' where those who kill and lynch in the name of religion are feted and garlanded is "unacceptable", former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Wednesday.

As reports of a former research scholar killed in a shootout reached his hometown Anantnag on Wednesday, clashes broke out, even as the authorities continued to face a separatist standoff protesting Sunday's civilian deaths in Kulgam for the second consecutive day.

The Supreme Court today adjourned hearing of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Article 35-A, which gives special rights and privileges to people of Jammu and Kashmir, and fixed August 27 as the next date. The matter was to be heard by a three-judge bench, but since Justice DY Chandrachud wasn't available, Chief Justice Dipak ...

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has exposed her proximity with separatists by warning that if her Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was split it would create more terrorists in the state.

Lok Sabha member and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has advised separatists not to engage in talks with the Centre, saying they will get nothing.

Dineshwar Sharma, a former intelligence bureau chief has been appointed by the Centre as its interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir, Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced on Monday, calling the decision a follow-up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that "Kashmir's problems can only be solved by embracing Kashmiris".

Separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir have no business talking about Article 35A as they do not believe in the Constitution of India, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said today

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday ridiculed the government for placing three Kashmiri separatists under house arrest this morning and releasing them soon after, ahead of National Security Advisor-level talks between India and Pakistan.

Sajad Lone, an ally of the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, has refused to take charge as minister in the new state government because he is upset with his portfolio.

Separatist-turned-mainstream politician Sajjad Lone has won from Handwara in north Kashmir in the state assembly elections, held over five phases.

As the first leads came from Kashmir, where votes cast in staggered polling are being counted today, one of the candidates who took an early lead was separatist turned mainstream politician Sajjad Lone.

After a record turnout in the first phase, the high-voltage campaigning for the second leg of Assembly elections on December 2 in nine seats in Jammu and as many in Kashmir ended today, with several high-profile candidates including former separatist Sajad Lone and four state ministers trying their luck at the hustings.

Former Kashmiri separatist Sajjad Lone of the People's Conference met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, days before the state heads for five-phase elections from November 25.