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Teachers reported to work in many schools in Kashmir as restrictions were eased further on Monday but not many students were seen. Officials said the government has made necessary arrangements for opening of 190 primary schools in Srinagar city as security forces remained deployed in most of the Valley. But all private schools in the city remained shut for the 15th consecutive day as parents were apprehensive about the security situation in view of violent protests over the past two days. Only Police Public School at Bemina and a few Kendriya Vidyalayas saw a handful of students turning up. "There is so much uncertainty in the situation that sending kids to school at this stage is out of question," Farooq Ahmad Dar, a parent, said.
With the water level of Yamuna river in New Delhi is expected to race towards the danger mark by Monday evening, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has urged the nearby resi...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced free transportation to women on Raksha Bandhan in all category of state-owned buses. "Raksha Bandhan is an...
Earlier in the day, the Union Home Ministry said that there have been a few stray protests in the Kashmir Valley in the past few days against the scrapping of special sta...
06, Aug 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday lashed out at the Modi government for doing away with Article 370 saying "national integration isn't furthered by unilaterally tearing apart J&K, imprisoning elected representatives and violating our Constitution." "This nation is made by its people, not plots of land. This abuse of eRead News
06, Aug 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
Union Home Minister Amit Shah moved a resolution in Rajya Sabha to abolish Article 370 of the Constitution, which accorded special status to Jammu and Kashmir, after the president issued a notification, and introduced a Bill to divide the state into two Union Territories -- Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.Read News
06, Aug 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday accused Home Minister Amit Shah of lying "blatantly"over the issue of his alleged detention. Speaking to reporters at hotel in Srinagar, Abdullah said "I had to come out of the house as soon as I heard the Home Minister of India blatantly lying. There is a DRead News
05, Aug 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
"Decision of J&K leadership to reject 2 nation theory in 1947 & align with India has backfired. Unilateral decision of GOI to scrap Article 370 is illegal & unconstitutional which will make India an occupational force in J&K," the former Chief Minister tweeted.Read News
05, Aug 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
The Article 370 of Indian Constitution had "temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir" which gave special powers to the state allowing it to have its own Constitution. According to it, the provisions of only Article 1 and Article 370 applied to the state.If the Centre wanted to extend in the state a central law on subjects included in the Instrument of Accession (IoA) -- Defence, External Affairs and CommunicatiRead News
05, Aug 2019, by : FnF Correspondent
The government's bill proposes bifurcation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories -- Jammu and Kashmir division and Ladakh. Making the announcement in Rajya Sabha, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the UT in Ladakh will have no legislature like Chandigarh while the other UT of Jammu and Kashmir will have a legislature like Delhi and PuRead News
It is indeed tragedy of immense magnitude that when one hundred fiftieth birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our nation, is being celebrated across the nation some people are hailing Nathuram Godse, assassin of Gandhiji, as a patriot and when faced with nation wide outrage they are offering shallow apology.
Election to Patkura Assembly constituency in Odisha scheduled to be held on 19th May was postponed by the Election Commission on the request of Chief Minister Shri Naveen...
After concoctions of every order, Congress-JDS combine has finally crossed the last hurdle for forming government in Karnataka. With BS Yeddyurappa stepping down as the C...
PM Narendra Modi has delivered a huge win for his party, proving that his popularity remains undiminished in an election that was seen as a primer for the national electi...
12, May 2018, by : FnF Desk
Karnataka has been atypical - it has not returned the ruling party to power in the last three decades. The big question now is, will chief minister Siddaramaiah buck this trend. Read News
22, Dec 2017, by : Dr Shashikant Pandey
The much awaited Gujarat verdict is pronounced and BJP has romped home with a wafer thin majority thereby creating history in India's electoral journey by winning six consecutive elections. The political pundits/analysts' are interpreting the result as per their convenience and understanding.Read News
19, Dec 2017, by : FnF Desk
During his campaign for the 2017 Gujarat elections, Rahul Gandhi's temple run mostly skirted areas where the minority vote lay. Even when passing through such areas, he breezed through, waving at crowds from his vehicle. Read News
31, Oct 2017, by : FnF Desk
Winston Churchill's observation that America can be depended upon to do the right thing after it has tried all the other alternatives is applicable to most countries. Read News
27, Oct 2017, by : FnF Desk
The biggest challenge and the top priority in Kashmir are to deradicalize Kashmiri youth and militants and prevent it from turning into a Syria of India, says Dineshwar Sharma, the newly-named interlocutor for talks in Jammu and Kashmir.Read News
30, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
Nitish Kumar in his earlier stint as the chief minister, had become a larger than life figure because of his success in controlling lawlessness in the state and preparing the ground for development. As a result, he was even seen as a possible player on the national stage.Read News
by : Priti Prakash
Out of the three significant issues that majorly dot India China relations, NSG and BRI being the ot...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
Yesterday i.e. on 8th July 2019, the 106th birth anniversary of comrade late Shri Jyoti Basu was cel...
by : Rajeshwar Singal
This may sound like a dilemma, but it is not far from truth. Conduct Rules are meant to govern condu...
by : Sunita Narain
The idea of secularism is this very idea of India which respects the equality of all. Of course, wit...
by : Ravi Kishore
Today every one is talking about judicial accountability i.e. how the whole system of judiciary is t...
by : Surya Mohan Dubey
Continuous deadly events happening every now and then prove that Indian Government has utterly faile...
