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Former IB director Dineshwar Sharma, who the Centre appointed as its representative for a sustained dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir, said his priority would be to restore peace in the state In what is being seen as a shift from its previous policy on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the Modi government on Monday announced it would start a "sustained dialogue" process with all stakeholders, including separatists, and appointed former Intelligence Bureau (IB) director Dineshwar Sharma as its special representative. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the move was to carry forward the "the conviction and consistency" in the government's Kashmir policy. "We have decided that a sustained dialogue process should begin in Jammu and Kashmir." Here are the top ten developments regarding the Centre's renewed efforts for peace in Kashmir 1) Sharma to have complete freedom in holding talks: Dineshwar Sharma would hold talks with all section...

Modi's policies have given a strategic blow to India, creating space for terrorists LATEST NEWS :    Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has refuted former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah's assertion that a third party, such as the US or China, can be approached for the settlement of the Kashmir issue between India and Pakistan. "I have been asserting for long that it's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his policies at the Centre that have destroyed Jammu and Kashmir. And the point that is being mentioned that a third party's intervention should be invited for the settlement of the issue, it's wrong. India is Kashmir and Kashmir is India," Rahul said on Friday. "It's our internal matter and no other country should have any say in it," he added. Earlier in the day, Abdullah said that India should approach third parties, such as the United States and China, to mediate in the Kashmir issue. Abdullah sa...

McDonald's outlets will reopen when the required licences have been LATEST NEWS : US fast food chain McDonald's 43 outlets in the national capital operated without valid 'health licences' for nearly three months from April 1, its estranged India partner Vikram Bakshi has alleged. Last month, McDonald's had decided to shut down 43 of the total 55 outlets here due to failure to renew eating house licences. Bakshi, an equal joint venture partner of McDonald's India Pvt Ltd (MIPL) in Connaught Plaza Restaurants Ltd (CPRL), the licensee for North and East India regions, said licences had expired on March 31. "From April 1 to June 27, 2017, we did not have any health licence, it's absolutely correct," Bakshi told PTI. He has been at loggerheads with McDonald's since 2013 when he was removed as the managing director of CPRL and is contesting it at legal forums, including the London Court of Arbitration. Bakshi said the hea...

The system stopped operation and we found out that the cable had been derailed, he added Latest news : The management of the company that operates the gondola cable car service in Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday blamed "an act of God" for the Sunday tragedy which killed seven people including four members of a Delhi family. Riyaz Ahmad, General Manager of the project, told IANS that there was no violation of the standard operating procedure (SOP) on Sunday as alleged by some. A man, his wife and their two children were killed in the accident that also left three locals dead. Another 150 people who were in other cable cars were saved. "We don't operate the gondola during high velocity winds and there is an inbuilt safety mechanism in the system that automatically stops the operation whenever there are gusty winds," Ahmad said. "What happened yesterday was a great misfortune because of an act of God," he told IANS. A...