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Saturday, September 13, 2025
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Topic: National Conference

BJP criticises Farooq Abdullah’s promise on J-K’s regional autonomy

National Conference chief Farooq Abduallh had promised regional autonomy if his party comes to power in the state.

Ex-governors, including a Vajpayee appointee, question J&K assembly dissolution

Former Governors, UPA or NDA appointees, criticise hurried move, say J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik should have called for floor test. But one disagrees.

Governor Malik jumped the gun in dissolving J&K assembly, it’s advantage Congress-NC

Mehbooba Mufti’s letter to Satya Pal Malik was meant to prevent BJP-backed Sajad Lone from forming the government. But the governor took the bait.

In Jammu & Kashmir’s rocky political stakes, Congress, NC & PDP outmanoeuvre BJP

The decision to stake claim to form the government, and subsequent assembly dissolution, may have put paid to BJP’s hopes of expansion in the state.

Pakistan not involved with J&K’s mainstream parties: BJP allies disagree with Ram Madhav

BJP's Bihar allies JD(U) and RLSP say Ram Madhav’s accusations that PDP and NC were working on ‘instructions from across the border’ are irresponsible.

J&K governor’s move widened state trust deficit with Delhi or did it stop horse-trading?

Within moments of PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti staking claim to form government in Jammu and Kashmir with the support of National Conference and Congress, Governor...

J&K governor dissolves assembly after rival alliances stake claim

J&K governor Satya Pal Malik took the decision after the PDP-Congress-NC and  BJP-backed Sajad Lone stake claim to form the government.  Srinagar: Governor's rule was clamped...

Omar Abdullah’s National Conference, Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP join hands with Congress in J&K

Altaf Bukhari of the Peoples Democratic Party confirmed that the trio will be coming together.

BJP wins 60 seats in Kashmir: Opposition boycott undermining democracy or letting BJP grow?

The BJP has won 60 municipal wards unopposed in the urban local body election of Jammu and Kashmir. The result comes after two main...

Keep non-Kashmiri IAS and IPS officers away from the state, says J&K leader

Muzaffar Shah Ahmad, a cousin of former CM Omar Abdullah, says officers from the Kashmir Administrative Services are getting sidelined.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.