JAMMU — Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina cast his vote Wednesday morning in his Nowshera assembly constituency in Rajouri district and expressed confidence the party will form the government in the union territory. People will overwhelmingly vote for peace and development undertaken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over the last decade, he […]
BEIJING — China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. The ICBM carried a dummy warhead and fell into a designated area of the sea, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. The launch by the People’s Liberation Army was part of routine annual training. It added the launch complied with […]
NEW DELHI — As Jammu and Kashmir votes in the second phase of crucial assembly elections on Wednesday, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge urged the voters to think about the decade “lost in betrayal” and remember how their state was downgraded to a Union Territory. Asserting that Jammu and Kashmir is on the cusp of change, […]
JAMMU — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said the next government in Jammu and Kashmir will be secular and that no government will be formed without the support of her party. Mufti also responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “three families” remark, and said that when the National Conference talked about […]
NEW DELHI — As the second phase of polling begins in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday appealed to the people of the Union Territory to vote in large numbers for a developed and terror-free region. Voting began on Wednesday for the second phase of the assembly election in Jammu and […]
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday appealed to voters in Jammu and Kashmir to use their franchise as the second round of polling in the Union Territory began. “I appeal to all voters that they must cast their votes and play an important role in strengthening democracy,” Modi said while greeting the […]
SRINAGAR — Voting began on Wednesday for the second phase of the assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir in which over 2.5 million voters will decide the fate of 239 candidates in the fray for 26 seats, including that of former chief minister of the erstwhile state Omar Abdullah, officials said. The voting began at […]
JAMMU — Hit by several deadly militant attacks in the past three years, the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch along with adjoining Reasi in Jammu will vote in the second phase of the assembly election on Wednesday. Adequate security arrangements have been put in place across all 11 assembly segments in the three hill […]
SRINAGAR — Two people, including Policeman died after a vehicle carrying the polling staff met with an accident in Tuksan Jabbara Morh area of sub-division Mahoor in Reasi district. An election Zonal Magistrate was also injured, officials said. “Today at around 1500 hrs an election duty bound vehicle under registration no. JK11A 3907 fell 100 […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Tuesday alleged that their opposition and the region’s oldest party, JKNC is trying to manipulate elections by misusing the power of its elected members to ‘intimidate voters. This, the PDP said is a violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). The application, printed on […]