SRINAGAR — The National Conference and the PDP – major constituents of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration – said on Monday that the grouping will jointly contest the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. “We will contest the elections together. There is a political party that said that they have left the alliance. The […]
SRINAGAR — PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday “appreciated” the Supreme Court’s observations against suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma over her “provocative comments” on Prophet Mohammad. However, she asked when the apex court will take cognizance of the Delhi Police’s different yardsticks applied to Sharma and fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair. Earlier in […]
NEW DELHI — The Election Commission will publish the finalised electoral rolls of Jammu and Kashmir on October 31, the union territory’s first voters’ list after the boundaries of assembly seats were redrawn in the delimitation exercise. In a letter to the chief electoral officer of Jammu and Kashmir, the poll panel has given a […]
SRINAGAR — PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said despite stringent security measures, it is the people of Kashmir who provide the real sense of security to the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims. The annual Amarnath Yatra is beginning on Thursday, resuming after a gap of two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “This year’s Yatra has […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu & Kashmir’s mainstream leadership has been invited to Raj Bhavan this evening by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, sources disclosed. Sources said that LG’s secretariat has invited heads of National Conference, Peoples Conference, Peoples Democratic Party, Congress and other parties to Raj Bhavan at 6:00 PM. “The agenda of the event is not […]
ASANSOL (WB) — West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday lashed out at the BJP-led Centre over the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair and social activist Teesta Setalvad over their arrests for “trying to expose the truth” and wondered how those who spread hatred among communities are roaming free. Addressing a party […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Conference (PC) President Sajad Gani Lone Saturday addressed a series of meetings with party workers from Lolab constituency as well as members of the Youth Peoples Conference from District Kupwara at his residence in Handwara. While addressing a meeting of workers from Lolab constituency, Sajad said that safeguarding the interests of the […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday asked people not to lose hope; else the situation in Jammu and Kashmir would be made worse than Gaza here. Addressing a press conference here at her Gupkar residence, Mehbooba said that the educational institutions are being attacked here now […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir police on Saturday reacted to the statement given by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief, Mehbooba Mufti about a local militant from Sedow area of Shopian, who was arrested and later killed in a gunfight in Kupwara on June 20. Kashmir zone police on its official Twitter handle reissued the statement, […]
NEW DELHI — As India elects its next president on July 18, the Legislative Assembly of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will not be a part of the exercise for the second time in the history of the election to the top constitutional post. There have been precedents of legislative assemblies of states […]