
New Delhi: The three-member Central panel on Jammu Kashmir will on Wednesday submit its report to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, after which the government will examine the recommendations of a "roadmap" suggested by them. Announced exactly a year ago, the team of three interlocutors " Dilip Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari " have completed their report within the timeframe of one year given by the government. Declining...

06:11 PM, Oct 11, 2011

New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir interlocutor Dilip Padgaonkar says a decision on 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's case could have repercussions in the Valley. Padgaonkar has drawn a parallel with the hanging of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front founder Maqbool Bhatt. "I am principally opposed to capital punishment. But if the country's highest court has convicted him and given him the death penalty that has to be respected. We...

02:41 PM, Aug 11, 2011

On this week's episode of Devil's Advocate Karan Thapar talk with the J&K interlocutors on the pressing political issue that Kashmir has become. ...

06:04 PM, Oct 31, 2010

New Delhi: After the interlocutors concluded their four-day visit to the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday came down heavily on Radha Kumar, one of the three Kashmir interlocutors, for her reported suggestion that the constitution could be amended to accommodate a "discussion on the azadi option for Jammu and Kashmir". "She is nobody to talk like this. She has no jurisdiction. This is not...

05:39 PM, Oct 28, 2010

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) alleges the Jammu and Kashmir interlocutors, who were appointed by the Centre, have overstepped their brief by talking about the Pakistan dimension of the Kashmir issue. After Dilip Padgaonkar, who heads the panel, spoke of a Pakistan dimension to the Kashmir issue. A day after they began mission Kashmir, the three interlocutors have stepped into controversy. The BJP has reacted angrily, asking the...

03:26 PM, Oct 24, 2010

New Delhi: The Centre has announced the names of interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir but the Valley is disappointed with no political faces among them. The Home Ministry chose eminent journalist Dilip Padgaonkar, Information Commissioner M M Ansari and academician Professor Radha Kumar as interlocutors in the Jammu and Kashmir dialogue process, sources say. The Central government appointed the three-member team of interlocutors to be headed by senior journalist Dilip...

09:39 AM, Oct 14, 2010

New Delhi: After their disappointing campaign in the recently concluded World Cup, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is looking to make amends and has reportedly approached India's former skipper Sourav Ganguly to be the batting coach of their national side. According to sources, BCB has confirmed the news that they want the services of India's most successful skipper, they are still to make a formal offer to the Bengal icon....

10:01 PM, Jan 17, 2008