Omar On Kashmir Violence

People in Jammu and Kashmir are in distress as there is hardly a day without any violent incident, National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday, asserting that the government should take steps to improve the situation.

A meeting of the Congress' top decision-making body to appoint its next chief was briefly halted after reports of "violence and deaths" emerged from Jammu and Kashmir, former party president Rahul Gandhi claimed on Saturday night. He said this to reporters minutes before the party leadership formally announced that his mother, UPA chairperson Sonia...

Opposition National Conference today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to understand that the present turmoil in the Valley was not due to lack of development but unwillingness of the centre to address the Kashmir issue.

The Supreme Court today asked the Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary to file a detailed affidavit on Kishtwar clashes and the subsequent steps taken by the state government. The Kishtwar violence continued to remain a political flashpoint with noisy protests in Parliament by the Bharatiya Janata Party members. The party was also engaged in a slangin...

The BJP is especially rattled by Mr Abdullah's claim that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi waited for days before calling in the Indian Army to control the 2002 violence.

The Jammu and Kashmir government today made the first arrests for the communal violence in Kishtwar which began on Friday, amid a raging political blame-game between the state's ruling National Conference, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Centre. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, criticized for not controlling the violence, accused the BJP of ...

Under attack from the opposition for allegedly failing to check communal violence in his state, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah retaliated by accusing the BJP of being "hypocrites" and ignoring major lapses by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2002 when his state was lacerated by riots.

The communal violence in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, led to several disruptions in Parliament on Monday morning, with an angry BJP protesting over senior leader Arun Jaitley being stopped from visiting the violence-hit town yesterday and accusing the J&K government of "hiding the truth." The Centre has asked the state government for a report ami...

Worried over the possible fallout of the Gaza violence in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday hoped a truce takes effect there at the earliest.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has blamed the separatists for the fresh bursts of violent protests in the Valley on the day of Eid-ul-fitr.Speaking to NDTV, Omar said the violence "will cast a shadow" on the process to push for changes in the Armed Forces Special Protection Act (AFSPA)."My office got a call from a close confidante o...

With the Valley continuing to burn and the state symbols attacked every day, it's a death zone for employees coming in from other states.As fresh violence was reported in Budgam on Tuesday, families of railway employees have fled to Jammu. They are not Kashmiris but people from other states who say they are not safe in the Valley as protesters are ...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah laid a wreath in memory of the 21 people who were killed by troops of Maharaja outside Central Jail in Srinagar in 1931, as the city observed Martyrs' Day on Tuesday. The Chief Minister had indicated during the weekend that the situation in the Valley was under control and the state government would co...

The all-party peace meet called by J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to find a way out of the crisis in the state has begun.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday apprised Union Home Minister P Chidambaram about the situation in the state.

Violence and stone pelting will not impact the redrawing of Jammu and Kashmir's map, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tells NDTV.

People in Jammu and Kashmir are in distress as there is hardly a day without any violent incident, National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday, asserting that the government should take steps to improve the situation.

A meeting of the Congress' top decision-making body to appoint its next chief was briefly halted after reports of "violence and deaths" emerged from Jammu and Kashmir, former party president Rahul Gandhi claimed on Saturday night. He said this to reporters minutes before the party leadership formally announced that his mother, UPA chairperson Sonia...

Opposition National Conference today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to understand that the present turmoil in the Valley was not due to lack of development but unwillingness of the centre to address the Kashmir issue.

The Supreme Court today asked the Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary to file a detailed affidavit on Kishtwar clashes and the subsequent steps taken by the state government. The Kishtwar violence continued to remain a political flashpoint with noisy protests in Parliament by the Bharatiya Janata Party members. The party was also engaged in a slangin...

The BJP is especially rattled by Mr Abdullah's claim that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi waited for days before calling in the Indian Army to control the 2002 violence.

The Jammu and Kashmir government today made the first arrests for the communal violence in Kishtwar which began on Friday, amid a raging political blame-game between the state's ruling National Conference, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Centre. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, criticized for not controlling the violence, accused the BJP of ...

Under attack from the opposition for allegedly failing to check communal violence in his state, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah retaliated by accusing the BJP of being "hypocrites" and ignoring major lapses by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in 2002 when his state was lacerated by riots.

The communal violence in Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir, led to several disruptions in Parliament on Monday morning, with an angry BJP protesting over senior leader Arun Jaitley being stopped from visiting the violence-hit town yesterday and accusing the J&K government of "hiding the truth." The Centre has asked the state government for a report ami...

Worried over the possible fallout of the Gaza violence in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday hoped a truce takes effect there at the earliest.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has blamed the separatists for the fresh bursts of violent protests in the Valley on the day of Eid-ul-fitr.Speaking to NDTV, Omar said the violence "will cast a shadow" on the process to push for changes in the Armed Forces Special Protection Act (AFSPA)."My office got a call from a close confidante o...

With the Valley continuing to burn and the state symbols attacked every day, it's a death zone for employees coming in from other states.As fresh violence was reported in Budgam on Tuesday, families of railway employees have fled to Jammu. They are not Kashmiris but people from other states who say they are not safe in the Valley as protesters are ...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah laid a wreath in memory of the 21 people who were killed by troops of Maharaja outside Central Jail in Srinagar in 1931, as the city observed Martyrs' Day on Tuesday. The Chief Minister had indicated during the weekend that the situation in the Valley was under control and the state government would co...

The all-party peace meet called by J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to find a way out of the crisis in the state has begun.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday apprised Union Home Minister P Chidambaram about the situation in the state.

Violence and stone pelting will not impact the redrawing of Jammu and Kashmir's map, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tells NDTV.