This will be the first elected government in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 and the reorganisation of the former state into two Union Territories.
This is the first BJP govt in Odisha after its emphatic performance in recent elections, after it defeated BJD. BJP won 78 of 147 seats in Odisha assembly polls.
While Modi took oath as PM for the third consecutive time, new faces that joined his cabinet include J.P. Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, H.D. Kumaraswamy and Chirag Paswan.
When Israelis pushed out Arabs in 1948, they didn’t think that embittered refugees would turn into a permanent threat to their new state. This was a catastrophic miscalculation.
ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.
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