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Sunday, October 12, 2025
TopicJammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill

Topic: Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill

2 seats for Kashmiri migrants, 1 for PoJK refugees— all about J&K Reorganisation Bill 2023

The bill, tabled in Lok Sabha Wednesday, proposes amendments to J&K Reorganisation Act 2019 so as to provide legislative quotas for nominated members of displaced communities.

Non-residents bought 7 plots of land in J&K since ban was lifted, all in Jammu: Govt tells RS

Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai gave this information in the Rajya Sabha in response to a question by Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP Jharna Das Baidya.

Delimitation Commission likely to get a year’s extension, J&K polls could be further delayed

Delimitation Commission was formed last year in March to redraw Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and other states.

NC in a bind: Party against J&K delimitation but its MPs could need to be part of exercise

NC has been against J&K reorganisation Act, but the party could go unrepresented on the govt panel that will execute the delimitation exercise if its MPs aren't on it.

Modi government releases new maps of union territories Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh

On the recommendation of Parliament, President Kovind scrapped Article 370 of the Indian Constitution and gave assent to the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.

3 rights panels among 7 J&K state commissions wound up ahead of bifurcation

Commissions were repealed in accordance with J&K Reorganisation Act 2019, which comes into effect from 31 October when state will be bifurcated into 2 UTs.

Parliament approves revoking Article 370, passes bill to bifurcate J&K into two UTs

The resolution for splitting Jammu & Kashmir into two Union Territories was passed 351 to 72 in favour.

On Camera

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.