Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that no major development regarding the restoration of statehood is likely to happen on August 5. Speaking ahead of the sixth anniversary of Article 370’s abrogation, Abdullah described his outlook as a “gut feeling” and noted that while

BJP MLAs in Jammu staged a protest outside the Civil Secretariat on July 14, opposing the government’s decision to make Urdu a compulsory language requirement for the Naib Tehsildar recruitment examination. The legislators demanded that the order be rolled back, arguing that it discriminates against aspirants from non-Urdu-speaking regions of the Union Territory. BJP