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Hailing the government’s decision to scrap the special status enjoyed by the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, the Punjabi singer said, 'Everything impossible could be made a reality by PM Modi'.

The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Congress was prevented from addressing a press conference on Friday as police detained its chief spokesperson and former MLC Ravinder Sharma at the party headquarters in Jammu.

Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel earlier this month had disqualified Mishra under the anti-defection law after he campaigned for the BJP during the Lok Sabha elections in May.

In the open letter purportedly written by Iltija, she said that she was also detained despite being a law-abiding citizen and hoped that she was not punished for raising questions about her fundamental rights.

The government said it had deployed drone cameras to capture images of the surging flood in the river, to study the impact along the riverbank.

Talking about the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, she said the government should make people of the state feel that it is actually working for their welfare as the Modi dispensation claims.

Bhatt, who was in June awarded life sentence in a custodial death case, is currently lodged at the Palanpur district jail.

Aasked about AIADMK's stand on scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution, which gave special status to J&K, Palaniswami recalled that late chief minister Jayalalithaa had raised the matter in the Rajya Sabha in 1984 and indicated his party's stand was...

"What he has said is an attempt to give communal colour to the issue even though the decision is in national interest," Mmukhtar Abbas Naqvi said.

While Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath is unable to expand his cabinet after the party's Lok Sabha defeat, Digviajaya Singh has steadily been divested of his power in states other than Madhya Pradesh.

Munde has posted images of the plastic bags containing rice and wheat, meant to be supplied to the victims, bearing photographs of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and local BJP MLA Suresh Halvankar.

After two hours of the CWC meeting, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi walked out of the AICC headquarters, saying it would be improper for them to be a part of the consultations on new Congress chief.

Former Union ministers and Gandhi family loyalist Mallikarjun Kharge and Mukul Wasnik are the front runners to succeed Rahul Gandhi. Both Wasnik and Kharge are Dalit leaders.

Chief Minister Jagan Reddy accepted the request from Tamil Nadu and ordered the state government officials to take necessary actions with immediate effect.

Yechury and CPI general secretary Raja had written to Satya Pal Malik on Thursday informing him of their visit and requesting him to facilitate their entry.

The Samajwadi Party workers were agitating against 25 issues, including the Unnao Rape victim issue, increment in diesel and petrol prices, law and order situation, harassment and fake cases against SP leaders, among other things.