Srinagar, Sep 20 : It's an unseemly war of words caught in a tangle of denials and accusations. And at the centre are Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and opposition leader Mehbooba Mufti, who says she never praised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

It all started with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj saying in Ahmedabad Monday: "Not just the BJP supporters, even rivals like PDP's Mehbooba Mufti has praised Modi's work ethics at the recent National Integration Council (NIC) meeting. This makes us proud."

Srinagar, Sep. 15 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has expressed dismay and anguish over speculation in the media about his private life and the status of his marriage.

In a message on social networking site Twitter, Abdullah said: " Have seen with dismay and anguish the growing tide of speculation in the media about my private life and the status of my marriage. While it''s true my wife and I have separated, speculation about the motives and my future actions are unfounded, untrue."

Srinagar, Sep. 8 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has condemned Wednesday''s bomb explosion in New Delhi that killed 12 people and injured 75.

He said that his government would extend all cooperation to the investigating agencies and provide them with all the information. He also offered his condolences to all the victims and their families on Thursday.

He stated that the government should nab the perpetrators, and ensure that such incidents do not occur in the future.

New Delhi, Aug 31 : With Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah seemingly equating Afzal Guru with Rajiv Gandhi''s assassins in his tweet, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today accused him of indulging in ''vote bank politics''.

Accusing Omar Abdullah of indulging in vote bank politics, BJP spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said: "Omar Abdullah has gone to Kashmir after taking over as Chief Minister, but after that there should be no communilisation of politics."

Srinagar, Aug 27 : After his brief absence from the virtual world, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is back on Twitter, refusing to write about the man who has held the government hostage on the issue of corruption -- Anna Hazare.

"Since nothing is happening in the world other than Anna & I refuse to tweet about Anna ergo I can't tweet about anything :-)," the young chief minister posted on the micro-blogging website.

Srinagar, Aug 27 : Known for airing his views in an unrestrained, often tongue-in-cheek style, and taking prompt steps to address grievances on Twitter, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's curious absence from the virtual world for almost a week was sorely felt by the twitterati.

Abdullah did not post even a single comment on the micro blogging site from Aug 19 to Aug 25.

He is followed on the website by over 46,000 people, many of them are journalists, civil servants, businessmen and local youngsters.

Authorities have said that confrontations between curfew-defying, anti-Indian protesters and security forces in Kashmir Sunday left nine people dead.

Three people were killed when security forces opened fire on protesters in Pampore and Khrew, The Hindustan Times has reported.

The newspaper also said that shortly after in Khrew, a mob encircled a police encampment and torched it. The flames set off an explosion that killed six people and wounded 35.

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah appealed for calm.

Srinagar, July 11:  Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti Sunday said Chief Minister Omar Abdullah sounded like former US president George Bush when he asked her to attend an all-party meeting on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

"He was giving me an ultimatum like a George Bush, trying to tell me either you are with us or against us," Mehbooba told reporters as she snubbed the offer, saying the meeting was futile.

"Nothing is going to come out of the meeting," she said.

The perception has drifted from the notes loving minister to 'digitally-equipped' minister as the iPad features on hands of Omar Abdullah.

Omar Abdullah, the J&K chief minister cannot stop praising this little piece of gadget that has almost replaced the minister's laptop. Of course, we all know that he is a tech-savvy person but the advent of Apple's touch pad seems to have revolutionized his life and made him say, "I cannot stop thinking what he would have done without this gizmo."

In a major embarrassment for J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, his advisor Mubarak Gul has been accused of working as a government contractor. He now faces disqualification for professional misconduct.

According to a report in a local English daily on Monday, Gul’s ‘Gulistan Production’ was allotted a Rs 18 lakh-contract to produce a six-episode Kashmiri series Azla Lone (destiny). The Opposition raised the issue on Monday.

Excerpts from the interview:

Do you think Kashmir is reverting to the days of militancy in the 1990s?

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has decided to unveil a bill during the budget meeting of the state parliament for the protection of women against violence.

The decision was taken at the state's winter capital during a conference, which was headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

The decision was taken in the backdrop of various cases of strange demises of women in the state, attributed to nuisance of women and dowry demand by in-laws.

Fifty- six- year- old Mughli Begum lost her senses in delight when she heard the news on television about Government considering to give general amnesty to the youth who crossed over to Pakistani side of Kashmir during militancy but now willing to come back.

Within minutes calls starting pouring in from near and dear ones. “The Government’s announcement was as if Eid for us. I still don’t believe that it is going to happen. I am going to see my son again.” says Mughli with full of hope.

Her son, Mohammad Yousuf (now called Jehangir), had crossed over to Muzaffarbad in 1991 when he was hardly 15

New Delhi, Jan 9 :Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here on Saturday that Pakistan based militant organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba is still active.

Referring to the last two incidents where security forces gunned down four suspected Islamic rebels in two different locations of Kashmir Valley Abdullah said LeT was involved in these incidents.

"The last two operations, both of them were actually Lashkar''s operations the militants involved were Lashkar militants, the only difference is that because of international pressure particularly the US pressure about the whole Lashkar name because of pressure the Lashkar-e-Taiba doesn''t take the credit for the operations they have carried out,” Abdullah said.

Jammu, Jan 6 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah reviewed the security situation in the troubled state Wednesday in the aftermath of a guerrilla attack in Srinagar.

State's police chief Kuldeep Khoda has been asked to rushed to the summer capital where pro-Pakistan militants attacked a paramilitary picket killing a police constable and injuring eight civilians.

General Officer Commanding in Chief of the Northern Command Lt. Gen. B. S. Jaswal, who is one of the security advisors of the chief minister, met Abdullah at his residence.

Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir), Jan 6 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said that he is confident of continuing the dialogue process with the separatist forces over the Kashmir issue.

Omar Abdullah completed his one-year term in office on Tuesday.

39-year-old Abdullah said he is hopeful of continuing a peace dialogue with the separatists.

Srinagar, Jan 5 : As Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah completed one year in office Tuesday, the journey so far has been anything but smooth for the young leader.

There have been many highs and lows during Abdullah's one year in office, yet many believe that the duration is too short to pass a verdict on his capability to steer the state out of its problems -- political as well as developmental.

Srinagar, Jan 5 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday completed his one-year term in office.

The youngest Chief Minister in the country, 39-year-old Omar Abdullah, says his government has learnt a great deal during the last one-year "We have learned lessons from our mistakes. If we don''''''''t learn lessons, then we will repeat those mistakes " said Omar Abdullah.

The State Government went through a difficult period during the agitation triggered by the Shopian incident when the dead bodies of two girls were recovered , giving rise to the speculation that the two girls were raped and murdered.

Jammu, Jan 2 : The first voices of protest against the Omar Abdullah government's decision to reserve jobs in government services for Kashmiri Pandits came Saturday from the refugees who fled those parts of Jammu and Kashmir occupied by Pakistan in 1947.

S. O. S. International, an organisation of refugees from what is now Pakistan-administered Kashmir, has strongly condemned the decision for launching a special recruitment drive for 3,000 jobs for Kashmiri Pandits.

Its chairman, Rajiv Chuni, in a statement issued here, condemned the central and state governments' decision to treat the refugees differently from the Kashmiri Pandits.

Jammu, Dec 30 - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi Wednesday.

The minister will discuss the PM's fifth working group report that favours restoration of autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir, according to official sources.

The report was presented to the chief minister in Jammu Dec 23.