Editorial: Elusive promise

[ad_1] <!-- --> Modi must offer concrete timeline for restoring statehood of J&K and holding Assembly elections Published Date - 15 April 2024, 11:54 PM Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest outreach to the people of Jammu...

Bollywood votes: Cinema in the shadow of elections

[ad_1] Real world politics has been spilling into Bollywood over the past few months. With elections about to begin, Hindi cinema is also poll-bound /news/big-story/bollywood-hindi-film-elections-politics-government-fighter-article-370-111712922679732.html 111712922679732 story Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come, except when...

A decade under Modi: Violence dips in Kashmir, turf lost to China and a civil war in Manipur

[ad_1] Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019, national security was on top of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s agenda.While making a bid for power in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party promised an overhaul of national security, arguing...

J&K: Not allowed to lead Friday prayers, detained at home, says Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

[ad_1] Hurriyat Conference leader and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said on Friday that he was detained at his home and prevented from leading congregational prayers at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid.“Today, on the occasion of Jumat-ul-vida, state authorities have not...

Demonetisation was a way of converting black money into white: Justice BV Nagarathna

[ad_1] The demonetisation of high-denomination currency notes on November 8, 2016, was a way of converting black money into white, Supreme Court’s Justice BV Nagarathna said on Saturday, Bar and Bench reported.“We all know what happened on November 8, 2016,...

Is shouting ‘Pakistan zindabad’ illegal? An SC order clarifies

[ad_1] Is speaking favourably about Pakistan a criminal offence in India? Four men arrested in Karnataka last week for allegedly shouting “Pakistan zindabad”, long live Pakistan, were the latest in a rapidly lengthening list of persons prosecuted across the country...