Jammu And Kashmir State Flag

Union minister Smriti Irani accused the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration of not extending voting powers to refugees from Pakistan, who have pride in the Indian flag. The comment was also a rebuke to former ally Mehbooba Mufti of the People's Democratic Party or the PDP, who had said that she would not hoist the Indian flag till the governme...

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday asserted that she will hold the tricolour and the flag of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir together, saying as an MLA she had reaffirmed her faith in the J-K Constitution and the sovereignty and integrity of India as both are inseparable.

A year after Jammu and Kashmir's state flag and constitution were scrapped, the landmark new political bloc called the People's Alliance has adopted the erstwhile flag as its symbol to fight for the restoration of the former state's special status.

Hours after Peoples' Democratic Party chief Mehooba Mufti spoke at her first press conference since being released from 14 months of detention, the BJP on Friday accused her of making "seditious remarks". "We will raise the national flag only once our state flag is back.

PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig on Thursday took a dig at party chief Mehbooba Mufti over her remarks where she had linked holding the Indian flag to the scrapping of provisions of Article 370 and said such "statements resulted in downgrading Jammu and Kashmir from a state to Union Territory".

The flag of Jammu and Kashmir was removed from the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar on Sunday following the orders of the Centre, three weeks after the government ended special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Till now, both the Indian flag and the state flag used to fly atop the Civil Secretariat building, the seat of the government. But this morning, on...

Sustained efforts by armed forces have made terrorists accept their defeat, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik said on Thursday after hoisting the national flag at the Sher-e-Kashmir stadium in Srinagar to mark the first Independence Day since abrogation of the state's special status.

For the first time in Jammu and Kashmir, an electric bus service was operationalised on Monday in Jammu city. An official statement said, "K Skandan, advisor to state Governor today flagged off the electric bus service from Railway Station, Jammu." The advisor said that the government would initially operate 40 electric buses in the state.

The situation in the curfew-bound areas of Jammu and Kashmir remained tense on Friday after a BJP leader was shot dead by suspected terrorists in Kishtwar, as the Army staged a flag march in certain places and the state government constituted a Special Investigation Team to probe the incident, officials said.

No terrorist of the ISJK, an outfit influenced by ISIS ideology, is active in Jammu and Kashmir and the extent of ISIS presence in the state was till recently limited to waving flags of the global terror group and Pakistan, Union minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said today.

Union minister of state for railways Rajen Gohain today flagged off a new weekly Humsafar Superfast Express Train from the Jammu railway station.

Hundreds of people waving the Jammu and Kashmir flag gathered in Srinagar on Wednesday to mark the state flag day. The event was organised by independent lawmaker Engineer Rashid in an attempt to reassert the state's unique status of having a separate flag.

The bypoll to the Anantnag assembly seat in Jammu and Kashmir, which was postponed by the Election Commission after the state government flagged law and order issues, will now take place on June 19.

Senior leader of the ruling PDP in Jammu and Kashmir Tariq Hamid Karra today said the special status of the state and its flag was unquestionable and beyond adjudication by the judiciary as it has been guaranteed by the Constitution of India and ratified by Parliament.

A court order that said all government buildings and cars in Jammu and Kashmir must use both the national and state flag has been suspended today.

Union minister Smriti Irani accused the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration of not extending voting powers to refugees from Pakistan, who have pride in the Indian flag. The comment was also a rebuke to former ally Mehbooba Mufti of the People's Democratic Party or the PDP, who had said that she would not hoist the Indian flag till the governme...

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday asserted that she will hold the tricolour and the flag of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir together, saying as an MLA she had reaffirmed her faith in the J-K Constitution and the sovereignty and integrity of India as both are inseparable.

A year after Jammu and Kashmir's state flag and constitution were scrapped, the landmark new political bloc called the People's Alliance has adopted the erstwhile flag as its symbol to fight for the restoration of the former state's special status.

Hours after Peoples' Democratic Party chief Mehooba Mufti spoke at her first press conference since being released from 14 months of detention, the BJP on Friday accused her of making "seditious remarks". "We will raise the national flag only once our state flag is back.

PDP leader Muzaffar Hussain Baig on Thursday took a dig at party chief Mehbooba Mufti over her remarks where she had linked holding the Indian flag to the scrapping of provisions of Article 370 and said such "statements resulted in downgrading Jammu and Kashmir from a state to Union Territory".

The flag of Jammu and Kashmir was removed from the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar on Sunday following the orders of the Centre, three weeks after the government ended special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Till now, both the Indian flag and the state flag used to fly atop the Civil Secretariat building, the seat of the government. But this morning, on...

Sustained efforts by armed forces have made terrorists accept their defeat, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik said on Thursday after hoisting the national flag at the Sher-e-Kashmir stadium in Srinagar to mark the first Independence Day since abrogation of the state's special status.

For the first time in Jammu and Kashmir, an electric bus service was operationalised on Monday in Jammu city. An official statement said, "K Skandan, advisor to state Governor today flagged off the electric bus service from Railway Station, Jammu." The advisor said that the government would initially operate 40 electric buses in the state.

The situation in the curfew-bound areas of Jammu and Kashmir remained tense on Friday after a BJP leader was shot dead by suspected terrorists in Kishtwar, as the Army staged a flag march in certain places and the state government constituted a Special Investigation Team to probe the incident, officials said.

No terrorist of the ISJK, an outfit influenced by ISIS ideology, is active in Jammu and Kashmir and the extent of ISIS presence in the state was till recently limited to waving flags of the global terror group and Pakistan, Union minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said today.

Union minister of state for railways Rajen Gohain today flagged off a new weekly Humsafar Superfast Express Train from the Jammu railway station.

Hundreds of people waving the Jammu and Kashmir flag gathered in Srinagar on Wednesday to mark the state flag day. The event was organised by independent lawmaker Engineer Rashid in an attempt to reassert the state's unique status of having a separate flag.

The bypoll to the Anantnag assembly seat in Jammu and Kashmir, which was postponed by the Election Commission after the state government flagged law and order issues, will now take place on June 19.

Senior leader of the ruling PDP in Jammu and Kashmir Tariq Hamid Karra today said the special status of the state and its flag was unquestionable and beyond adjudication by the judiciary as it has been guaranteed by the Constitution of India and ratified by Parliament.

A court order that said all government buildings and cars in Jammu and Kashmir must use both the national and state flag has been suspended today.