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PM Modi delivered his seventh consecutive Independence Day speech todayPrime Minister Narendra Modi said today that elections could soon be held in Jammu and Kashmir, pending completion of the ongoing delimitation process, and that his government was "committed" to ensuring the union territory had "its own chief minister and ministers". We are committed to this," PM Modi said during his speech - a seventh straight Independence Day address and a second since the BJP-led NDA swept to power in last year's general election. This is also the PM's second Independence Day speech since his government withdrew special status from J&K and bifurcated the former state into two union territories. Union Home Minister Amit Shah later pointed out that no bloodshed had taken place and "not one bullet had been fired". Prime Minister Modi's Independence Day address today also included a veiled warning to Pakistan and China over border issues in J&K a...

Jaipur (Rajasthan) : Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has termed the winning of the vote of confidence in the state assembly as "a victory for the people of the state" while stating that "BJP's conspiracy" to topple the government in the state has failed. The Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan won vote of confidence in the state assembly on Friday by voice vote. Congress MLAs were seen showing victory sign after winning the confidence motion in the State Assembly today. Rajasthan's Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Kumar Dhariwal tabled a motion for trust vote in the state assembly. Pilot was removed as Deputy Chief Minister and Rajasthan Congress chief last month after his differences with Gehlot came out in open triggering a political crisis in the state.