Srinagar: The ruling National Conference government in Jammu and Kashmir is on the backfoot following the death of a party worker in police custody. The victim's family has been alleging foul play and the Opposition has been demanding Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's resignation. Two days after the death of National Conference party worker Saeed Yousuf in police custody, the government top brass has come out to defend Omar Abdullah. It...
11:05 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Srinagar: The ruling National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir is on the backfoot over the custodial death of one of its party workers. The man died in custody after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah turned him in for allegedly taking money to fix ministerial berths. Omar has ordered a probe into the worker's death. However, the Opposition PDP demanded Omar's resignation on Saturday. The Jammu and Kashmir government has hit back...
05:56 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Senior PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Beigh has demanded Abdullah's resignation over the custodial death of a National Conference worker. ...
10:36 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Srinagar: Protests erupted in Srinagar on Friday after a National Conference worker died in police custody. The party worker was handed over to the crime department by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for taking money from people promising them ministerial berth. The government has ordered a judicial probe into the custodial death. Four police officials, including the Chief Minister's personal security officer, have been transferred. However, the Opposition, PDP, wants the...
07:54 AM, Oct 01, 2011
Jammu: TS Wazir, a senior leader of the ruling National Conference and former member of the Jammu and Kashmir legislative council whose term ended in February, has been arrested in connection with a murder case in Jammu six years ago, police said on Thursday. The arrest was carried out under the supervision of Senior Superintendent of Police (Jammu) Basant Rath in the on Thursday evening. A leading businessman of Jammu,...
11:23 PM, Jun 09, 2011
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday denied having been offered any bribe during the parliamentary trust vote in July 2008. Omar, then member of the Lok Sabha, had voted for the UPA government and delivered a highly emotional speech, which won him accolades from Congress leaders for having said: "Indian first." With Wikileaks alleging that Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi worked on Omar during the trust...
02:20 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Jammu: At a time when political groups are calling for an early resolution of the Kashmir crisis, the ruling National Conference on Saturday raised the pitch for the restoration of greater autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir. While the party's central working committee after a meeting said the "party stands for autonomy", sources within the National Conference told that there was a strong sentiment among the party leaders that the issue...
05:46 PM, Feb 19, 2011
Jammu: After over two decades of violence and militancy, the Jammu and Kashmir government has finally rolled out its controversial rehabilitation policy for terrorists who crossed over and went to Pakistan for arms training starting 1989. The parents of one such terrorist Lal Din and his wife Saira have waited for the past nine years for their son to return home. Khursheed Aslam was 15 years old when he crossed...
10:58 AM, Nov 25, 2010
Srinagar: The all-party delegation led by Home minister P Chidambaram will arrive in Srinagar on Monday. But the Centre's task of winning the hearts, minds and reaching out to the separatists may turn out to be difficult. The People's Democratic Party (PDP) has threatened to boycott the talks if the eight-day long curfew is not lifted in the Valley. The Kashmir Valley is under curfew for the eight consecutive day...
08:55 PM, Sep 19, 2010
Karan Thapar for CNN-IBN: Hello and welcome to Devil’s Advocate. Has the National Conference been snubbed and boxed into an impossible position by the UPA and the all-party meeting – that’s the key issue we’re going to explore with the party president and the Union Cabinet Minister Farooq Abdullah. Dr Farooq Abdullah you publicly said that you weren’t disappointed with the outcome of the all-party meeting but the truth is...
05:49 PM, Sep 18, 2010
New Delhi: National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has said that removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is not a simple thing to do, but he was hopeful that it would be eventually removed. He spoke exclusively to CNN-IBN and here are excerpts from the conversation. Karan Thapar: Concrete action in terms of AFSPA hasn't been considered, no promise has been made and the message given is that...
10:53 AM, Sep 17, 2010
New Delhi: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah has rejected speculations that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah could resign or be replaced by him. "I am not poised to take over. I have done my job as best as I could. I am not going, my son is good enough," Farooq said. Speaking to Karan Thapar for CNN-IBN, Abdullah added that the Congress-NC government would complete its term in...
07:42 PM, Sep 16, 2010
New Delhi: An all-party meeting called at the residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to find a way forward to end the cycle of violence in Jammu and Kashmir, ended without a consensus on the army's role. After the meeting, that went on for over five hours, it was decided that Home Minister P Chidambaram will lead an all-party delegation to Kashmir to gather all shades of opinion from the...
12:38 PM, Sep 15, 2010
On Tuesday, the opposition BJP slammed both the UPA and the state government for violence in Kashmir. ...
11:03 PM, Sep 14, 2010
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday ended all speculation that he was going to resign following the violence in Kashmir. "I am not going to plunge the state into a bigger crisis by leaving it headless at this stage," Omar told CNN-IBN. The Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet is meeting in Srinagar to discuss the security situation in the Valley. Omar's party, the National Conference, will...
01:09 PM, Sep 14, 2010
New Delhi: As the Centre tries to work out a package for Kashmiris up in arms against the army in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is under fire for failing to control violence which has claimed over 60 lives in the Valley. When Abdullah, a scion of one of Kashmir’s most prominent political families, took over the reigns in January 2009 with unprecedented public support for the National...
11:32 AM, Sep 14, 2010
Srinagar: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's remarks on autonomy for Kashmir have evoked mixed reactions. The BJP remains opposed and the separatists along with PDP say it does not provide for a political solution. On the streets in Kashmir Vally, too, the response remained lukewarm. On the curfew-bound streets of Srinagar, there was not much movement on Wednesday and no major reaction to the Prime Ministers speech to the all-party meeting...
09:57 PM, Aug 11, 2010
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that the government will consider the demand for autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir if there was autonomy among political parties on the issue. The Prime Minister said this after meeting an all party delegation from Jammu and Kashmir led by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. It lasted nearly four hours. However, Singh added that the autonomy would be within the ambit of...
11:36 PM, Aug 10, 2010
Afghanistan is hosting an international conference to outline a roadmap for integration of the Taliban into the mainstream. ...
10:09 AM, Jul 20, 2010
Army Chief VK Singh had blamed Omar government of not building on the gains of the 2008 polls. ...
12:29 PM, Jul 16, 2010
