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January 04 The Modi government has effectively given up on the Triple Talaq bill and the Citizenship Amendment Bill— that were awaiting consideration by the Rajya Sabha. The opposition parties made clear that they could not guarantee smooth functioning of the House if any contentious bills were tabled. The decision on the bills to be tabled in the Upper House was taken at a meeting chaired by Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu that included government representatives and leaders of all the opposition parties. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Narendra Singh Tomar held a 30-minutes-long follow-up meeting with the Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad and leaders of other parties. The Rajya Sabha will now take up only six legislative proposals including one to replace an ordi...

January 31 The next chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir will be from the BJP as the party will come to power on its own in the state, state in-charge of the saffron party Ravinder Raina said Thursday. Addressing a series of meetings ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s February 3 rally at Vijaypur in Jammu, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader credited the Union government for ensuring “remarkable development” in the state. “The BJP will form its own government in Jammu and Kashmir after upcoming assembly elections and the chief minister will be from the BJP,” Raina said. Launching a scathing attack on the Congress and the National Conference (NC), Raina said leaders of both the parties had plundered the resources of the state and exploited the people. While, the Naren...

January 31 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate first ever business process outsourcing (BPO) unit in northern Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Sunday. The prime minister will visit to all three regions of Jammu and Kashmir on February 3 to lay foundation stones for host of projects. “(The) Prime Minister will be inaugurating BPO in Bandipora on February three. This is the first BPO in this belt. “The aim is to attract entrepreneurs, investors and MNCs in IT and BPOs to establish their business units…with ultimate objective of enhancing employment opportunities for the youth in the district and neighbouring districts,” Deputy Commissioner Bandipora Shahid Iqbal Choudhary told PTI. The DC further said that the BPO will also provide an employment oriented investment atm...

January 31 The Government of Pakistan categorically rejects the objections raised by India to the Pakistan Foreign Minister’s telephonic call to All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. "We would like to reiterate that Kashmir is an outstanding dispute between India and Pakistan, and acknowledged as such through UN Security Council resolutions as well as numerous Pakistan-India documents including the Simla Agreement and Lahore Declaration," the Pakistan Foreign Ministry said. In a press release they said, The Kashmir issue remains on the agenda of the UN Security Council. We also categorically reject any insinuation that seeks to project as “terrorism” the legitimate struggle of the Kashmiri people for self-determination. This is an outright travesty. Pakist...

January 28 Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti ( KMSS ) leader Akhil Gogoi on Sunday said that if  the Citizenship Amendment Bill is passed, then the state will be bound to separate itself from India. Addressing a protest rally against the proposed legislation at Panitola in Assam’s Tinsukia district, Gogoi said, “If the government gives us the respect we deserve, we are with the nation but if the sentiments of the indigenous Assamese are ignored and the bill is passed, then each Assamese must have the courage to say that they will not be a part of India.” Gogoi, who has been spearheading the agitation by 70 organisations against the bill, said, “We want to make it clear that if the need and situation arises, Assam must be able to say that they are prepared not to stay with India… if the...

January 28 A Nagpur policeman who allegedly 'showered' cash on a group of young schoolgirls has been shunted out of his beat duty and a probe initiated, an official said here on Monday. The incident happened on January 26, when the group of Class 6 girls of the Zilla Parishad School, Nand village, were presenting a cultural dance on a patriotic song on stage to mark the Republic Day celebrations. A senior beat constable Pramod Walke who was on duty in the vicinity, was seen climbing onto the stage, taking a wad of currency notes, circling them in the air and showering it on the girls, shocking the audience. Videos of the incident shot by many on their mobile phones, went viral late on Sunday prompting the girls' parents to demand action against the policeman for the alleged ind...

January 26 India and Pakistan armies traded gunfire along Line Of Control in Mankote area of Mendhar in Poonch district on Saturday. Officials claimed that the exchange of fire erupted at around 11:10 am after ‘Pakistan resorted to ceasefire violations’. “The fire was retaliated effectively,” he said.buy zoloft online www.mabvi.org/wp-content/languages/new/zoloft.html no prescription He also claimed that heavy mortar shelling is going on in the area from both sides.

January 26 As India celebrates its 70th republic day on 26 January 2019, hundreds of republic day functions are being commemorated across the country. Narendra Modi, the Prime minister of India will hoist the Indian tri colour flag on the Red fort in New Delhi and the chief ministers of various states will unfurl the flag at state capitals. While most of the people throughout India are celebrating the day, people in Kashmir hardly have any reason to celebrate. Mobile Internet services have been gagged in Kashmir valley while hundreds of Government Force personnel are patrolling the streets. Hundreds of checkpoints have been enacted across the valley and by passers are frisked. "People have been confined to their households, with no internet and streets turned into garriso...

January 23 marriage of a Hindu woman with a Muslim man is not a “regular or valid” but the child born out of such wedlock is legitimate, the Supreme Court on Tuesday held. It also said that the legal effect of such an irregular marriage is that a wife is entitled to get dower but cannot inherit the husband’s property. The court held that the child born in an irregular marriage is legitimate just like in the case of a valid marriage and is entitled to inherit the property of the father. A bench of justices N V Ramana and M M Shantanagoudar upheld the order of the Kerala High Court by which it was ruled that the son of a couple – Mohammed Ilias and Valliamma (who was Hindu at the time of marriage) – was legitimate and was entitled for share in his father’s property according to l...