Mehbooba Mufti, Sajad Lone, Altaf Bukhari, and Ruhullah Mehdi declined to join NC's Jantar Mantar statehood stir. These leaders have accused NC of normalising BJP's post-2019 narrative.
So far, only Congress and CPIM have said yes to their participation.
Lok Sabha MPs from Jammu and Kashmir have recorded poor completion of development works under MPLADS despite allotting more than half of their total kitty for different projects in their constituencies.
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Under the Punjab Cattle Fairs (Regulation) Act, 1967, the Punjab government collects a 4 percent tax from cattle trade within the state during cattle auctions at animal fairs. This tax is collected from the local contractors who participate in fairs. https://t.co/ppMmiDod5A
While Europe was inventing newspapers, Mughal India had akhbarat - handwritten news reports carrying intelligence, court intrigue, military dispatches and gossip across an empire. Munis Faruqui spent 20 years decoding them, revealing how Aurangzeb worked. https://t.co/d8gm05l4kz
The Rural Development Department has directed officials to investigate cases of rejection or deletion from the PWL and launched a fresh verification drive across rural areas to ensure that eligible households are not denied housing assistance. #Kashmir
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The famed blue sapphires of #Kishtwar, the floating houseboats of #Srinagar, the lotus stems that define #Kashmir's cuisine and #Ladakh's apricots that thrive in cold desert may soon join an expanding list of products protected under GI registry. #Jammu
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One of the accused in the NEET-UG paper leak case, a student, will also take the June 21 re-exam after a court allowed him to appear. He is accused of selling and sharing PDFs of allegedly leaked question papers through Telegram channels. The student remains under investigation even as preparations for the re-exam continue….
Few points on the announcement of a US-Iran deal:
- Image of US power significantly diminished. Washington could not bring Iran to heel, could not open the Hormuz Strait, could not push Saudi into war, could not impose normalisation with Israel, could not protect its allies against cheaper Iranian missiles despite its more expensive technology, could not get NATO to join the war, could not get Europe to join the war, could not convince China to pull away from Iran, and could not stop Gulf states privately negotiating with Iran to exclude themselves from Iran's list of targets.
- Israel overreached and failed. It successfully dragged US to war with Iran, but failed to achieve any strategic aim. No regime change, no Arab-Israeli coalition, no newly annexed territories, publicly slapped down by Trump after attacking Beirut, forced kicking and screaming into a deal it adamantly opposed, and now faces a US public opinion that squarely blames Tel Aviv for dragging America into a war there was no need to fight with potentially generational political consequences for the US-Israeli relationship (Israel cannot fight any war without US funds, troops, weapons, and diplomatic cover).
- Saudi Arabia vindicated. Refused to be dragged into conflict, resisted UAE campaign to get Arab states to join Israel's attack, resisted pressure from Trump to normalise in exchange for security, deepened coordination with Pakistan and Turkiye over integrating supply chains and routes, and successfully negotiated its own de-escalation with Iran.
- Turkiye's Erdogan staves off Israeli attempts to use the war with Iran to drive a wedge between him and Trump as the latter instead asserts their personal friendship, thanks him publicly for helping to bring the deal, and affirms his belief in Turkiye as a stabilising force by promoting Tom Barrack (who the Israelis deeply resent for his alleged partiality and positive view of Ankara).