Updated May 07, 2021 · 11:29 am Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. | PTI
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren late on Thursday night said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had called him to say his “mann ki baat (my thoughts)” instead of discussing important matters. The phrase was a reference to Modi’s monthly programme aired on the All India Radio, where he speaks about various matters.
“Respected prime minister called me up tonight,” Soren said in a tweet in Hindi. “He just spoke his ‘man ki baat’. It would have been better had he said some “
kaam ki baat” [matters of importance], and listened to some “
SC refuses to entertain plea seeking to prosecute Farooq Abdullah for statement on Article 370 ANI | Updated: Mar 03, 2021 13:34 IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), filed by one Rajat Sharma, against former Chief Minister of Jammu and KashmirFarooq Abdullah, seeking a direction to prosecute him for allegedly making a statement on scrapping of Article 370.
The bench of the Apex Court also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on Sharma.
A bench of the Apex Court, headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, while refusing to entertain the PIL filed by Sharma, observed that the expression of views that are dissent and different from the opinion of the government cannot be termed as seditious.
Foreign envoys visit J&K to assess situation
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Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 13:49 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 17: A delegation of foreign envoys has arrived in Srinagar on a 2-day visit to the Valley for assessing the situation following the scrapping of its special status in 2019. The envoy s were received by the administration and briefed about the strengthening of local bodies, including panchayat, officials said.
Jammu and Kashmir
Envoys from 24 nations -Chile, Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, EU, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Bangladesh, Malawi, Eritrea, Cote d Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Malaysia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan- are part of the delegation visiting J&K.
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24 foreign envoys arrive in Srinagar on two-day visit The New Nation 18 February 2021
A batch of foreign envoys arrived in Srinagar on Wednesday. They have come for a two-day visit to the union territory of J&K to assess the on-ground situation.
The Hindu :
A 24-member high-level delegation, including envoys and Ambassadors of the European Union (EU) and other foreign countries, arrived in Srinagar on Wednesday morning to assess the ground situation by meeting local civil society groups, elected representatives, political leaders and students.
EU Ambassador Ugo Astuto is leading the delegation. It is the third visit of the EU envoys to Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of special status of J&K in August, 2019.