Arun Sharma

While Congress and PDP say the government’s decision affirms Azad is a “pure BJP and RSS man” and Modi wants to “politically rehabilitate his friend”, BJP and Azad’s party DPAP defend the move, point to his vast political experience.

This was the second time since June 13 that local residents of Dangri led by Saroj Bala held a dharna in protest against the delay in the investigation.

Despite three generations of their family working as sanitation workers in J&K, these youngsters were forced to give up their dreams over the lack of a permanent resident certificate

Brigadier (Retd) B D Mishra made the comments weeks after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that not an inch of land has been lost in the Union Territory.

"They have been successfully tested also," Chief of Defence Staff said hinting at the successful conduct of G20 summit.

Three people, including an SPO, were injured in the encounter, which was still underway until Tuesday night.

In the last three years, India has ramped up infrastructure development along the LAC, both in eastern Ladakh and the North-East.

The allottees cut across party lines and include Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, ex-PDP MP and former minister Muzaffar Hussain Beigh and former BJP MLA and its J&K president Ravinder Raina.

Tired of the hurdles, the little girl has now made a public appeal, urging people to donate at least 1 rupee each so that she can and other children in one of the remotest parts of the Union Territory can go to a “good government school’’.

The event was organised to commemorate 76 years of accession of Jammu and Kashmir into the Indian Union and the diamond jubilee of the Air Force Station at Jammu