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Pakistan downgrades ties with India as Kashmir row deepens

10:37 pm August 7, 2019

Islamabad: Pakistan downgraded its diplomatic ties with nuclear-armed rival India Wednesday, announcing that it will expel the Indian envoy and suspend trade in a deepening row over New Delhi’s move to tighten its grip on disputed Kashmir. New Delhi stripped the Himalayan region of its seven-decade-long semi-autonomous status Monday through a contentious presidential decree, just […]

PM likely to address nation on Thursday

9:08 pm August 7, 2019

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address the nation on Thursday during which he is expected to explain government’s decisions on abrogating special status to Jammu and Kashmir and splitting the state into two union territories, sources have said. The last time he addressed the nation was on March 27 during the […]

BSP makes Jaunpur MP its leader in Lok Sabha

8:58 pm August 7, 2019

Lucknow: The Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday made its Jaunpur MP Shyam Singh Yadav its legislature party leader in the Lok Sabha, while appointing Ambedkar Nagar MP Ritesh Pandey as the party’s deputy leader in the house. In a major organisation reshuffle, the party also made its former Rajya Sabha MP Munquad Ali its Uttar […]

Real Kashmir’s pre-season may move out of Valley

8:33 pm August 7, 2019

Kalyani (West Bengal): Srinagar-based I-League club Real Kashmir FC may hold its pre-season training at either Jamshedpur or Mumbai in the wake of tense situation in the state, said the team’s co-owner and chairman Sandeep Chattoo. Despite tensed situation back home after the Centre scrapped Article 370, which gives special status to the state, Real […]

Without phone lines, internet: voices from Kashmir incommunicado

11:46 pm August 6, 2019

New Delhi : Tourists and Kashmiri locals who reached Delhi on Tuesday appeared relieved at being out of the uncertainty sweeping the Valley but expressed their angst at the situation there, with some saying it is akin to the Stone Age without lines of communication. They also rued the heavy security deployment in the Valley […]