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Ladakh talks talk of the town in Kashmir; Mehbooba gives unity call in letter to Omar
Ladakh talks have become talk of the town in Srinagar. Former J&K CM and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has written to CM Omar Abdullah and all other political parties urging them to unite and make an appeal to the prime minister and the home minister, “to initiate a meaningful and sustained engagement with the people of Jammu and Kashmir”. While she has urged the CM to convene an all-party meeting on the lines of Ladakh, she has also separately written to heads of Congress, BJP, Peoples...
National Conference’s ‘secretive’ Dachigam huddle ends with Delhi protest plan for J&K statehood
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Gadkari sets off final ‘breakthrough’ blast in Zoji La tunnel, signals early completion
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INDIA bloc's key huddle: Full list of leaders who attended the meeting
| Party | Leaders | | Congress | Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, KC Venugopal | | Samajwadi Party | Akhilesh Yadav | | TMC | Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee | | RJD | Tejashwi Yadav | | National Conference | Omar Abdullah | | PDP | Mehbooba Mufti | | JMM | Sarfaraz Ahmad | | Shive Sena (UBT) | Uddhav Thackeray | | NCP SP | Supriya Sule | | CPM | John Brittas | | CPI | D Raja | | CPI ML | Dipankar Bhattacharya | | RSP | NK Premachandran | | IUML | Sadiq Thangal | | VCK |...
J&K political storm after Mehbooba reviews AIIMS project
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Not in room, yet in conversation: CJP crawls into INDIA bloc huddle
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SIR being used to ‘manipulate’ polls, claims INDIA bloc, will write to CJI
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'Meetings may soon be held in a car': BJP mocks shrinking INDIA bloc
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