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Ghaziabad, Mar 10: Amid the raging controversy over release of a Kashmiri separatist leader, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today asserted that his government's top priority was national security and not the continuance of the government in the state where BJP is an alliance partner. His remarks come a day after the Prime Minister made it clear in Parliament that release of separatist leader

New Delhi, Mar 10: Opposition parties today sought to corner the government over reports that the Jammu and Kashmir government was planning to release 800 more separatists and sought to know if the state's Governor has mentioned this in his report to the Centre. After Naresh Agarwal (SP) and others raised the issue in Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said government was ready to respond

New Delhi, Mar 10: The release of Kashmiri separatist Masarat Alam from jail was not entirely the PDP government's decision. And that his release was decided when Jammu and Kashmir was under the Central rule, according to a news report. "In a letter on February 4, the state's Home Secretary Suresh Kumar told the Jammu District Magistrate that an order in September detaining the separatist under

New Delhi, Mar 10: The widening internal rift in the AAP today again came to the fore with the party top brass launching a scathing attack on Shanti Bhushan, Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, accusing them of working for the party's defeat and maligning the image of Arvind Kejriwal. In a first official statement by top party leaders since the infighting came out in the open, Deputy Chief

New Delhi, Mar 10: Seeking to insulate his government from the controversy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) had kept the Centre in the dark over the release of separatist leader Masrat Alam. The near unanimous denouncement in Parliament over the release of Alam, the mastermind of the stone-pelting incidents that rocked the state in 2010, prompted Modi to

Jammu, Mar 9: BJP legislators in Jammu and Kashmir today lodged a strong protest with Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed over the release of hardline separatist leader Masarat Alam and demanded his re-arrest. The party also took exception to the "misinformation campaign" that the decision to release Alam was taken after consulting it. The MLAs led by state BJP General Secretary Rajiv Jasrotia

New Delhi, Mar 9: Opposition today created ruckus in the Lok Sabha over the release of separatist leader Masarat Alam by PDP-BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir demanding an explanation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even as the government asserted that it was not consulted on the issue. As soon as the House met, several Opposition parties, including Congress, raised the issue and demanded

Kohima, Mar 8: At least eighteen persons have been arrested in connection with the lynching incident in Dimapur even as protests against the killing continued to rock many parts of the state today. Police said the arrests were made after going through the mobile video clippings of the incident. Protests against the lynching were reported from different parts of the state, including Karimganj, and

New Delhi, Mar 8: Denouncing the violence against women, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said one-stop- centres and mobile helplines will be set up for women in distress. "Our heads hang in shame when we hear of instances of crime against women. We must walk shoulder-to-shoulder to end all forms of discrimination or injustice against women," he said in a message on the occasion of International

Srinagar, Mar 8: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday night said he had no "regrets" that his government had detained the hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Masarat Alam who was released following the order of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. "Yes, my government detained Masarat Alam and we kept him out of circulation. Detention isn't ideal but difficult