BENGALURU — Oil prices rose 2% on Tuesday to their highest in four weeks, as the U.S. reimposed its naval blockade of Iran while the two countries stepped up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, heightening uncertainty about energy flows. Brent crude futures climbed $1.68, or 2%, to $84.98 per barrel by 0051 GMT, while […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said he feels honoured to have received a “love letter” in the form of a legal notice from the BJP as it proves that he is a political force they cannot ignore. The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP on Monday served a […]
JAMMU — More than 570 sports and youth infrastructure projects with an estimated investment of over Rs 650 crore are at various stages of planning and execution across Jammu and Kashmir during the current financial year, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Commissioner Secretary, Youth Services and Sports, Shahid Iqbal Choudhary said the initiative […]
SRINAGAR — The Jammu and Kashmir poll body has asked PDP candidate Waheed Para to explain his statement urging Kashmir’s youngsters to consider the general elections as a “referendum” to send New Delhi a message, and asked him refrain from making utterances that may aggravate differences among communities. The notice issued by the nodal officer […]
SRINAGAR — The first batch of over 600 Haj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir left for Saudi Arabia on Thursday, officials said. They said 642 pilgrims on board two flights were headed for the 40-day pilgrimage to the Islamic pilgrimage sites in Mecca and Medina. More than 7,000 pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir are scheduled […]
SRINAGAR [Raouf Dar] (KIMS) — As the Kashmir gears up for polling for Srinagar Lok Sabha Parliamentary Seat on May 13th, the Deputy Commissioner Pulwama, Dr. Basharat Qayoom on Thursday said that the preparations for the upcoming Lok Sabha Election in the district are going in full swing in the district, and also huge participation […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference vice-president and candidate for the Baramulla Lok Sabha seat Omar Abdullah Thursday asked the Election Commission to direct authorities in the constituency to allow his campaign programme as per schedule. Abdullah’s letter to the EC comes a day after the Superintendent of Police in Sopore Divya D issued an official directive […]
SRINAGAR — A senior police officer’s order seeking the rescheduling of political activities in north Kashmir’s Sopore has sparked a controversy with the National Conference accusing the UT administration of bias and obstructing a fair electoral process. Sopore falls within the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency that will go to polls on May 20 in the […]
SRINAGAR — As many as 52,100 Kashmiri migrant voters across the country are eligible to exercise their franchise in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar constituency on May 13. The constituency is gearing up for an intense electoral showdown. As many as 17.4 lakh voters, including 8.7 lakh […]
JAMMU — The Election Commission of India (ECI) has set up four special polling booths for the Kashmiri migrant community at various locations in Delhi, officials on Wednesday said. Over 1.13 lakh Kashmiri migrants are registered to vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections for the Anantnag, Srinagar and Baramulla constituencies in the Kashmir Valley, […]
PULWAMA — There was a gathering and a procession in Wasoora village here on Wednesday as people came out in large numbers to participate in a poll rally, unseen till a few years ago due to the threat of militancy. They were attending PDP’s Srinagar Lok Sabha seat candidate Waheed Para’s campaigning in the village, […]
JAMMU — Images of three suspected militants, taken out of a CCTV clip, who purportedly carried out the May 5 attack on an Indian Air Force (IAF) convoy in J&K’s Poonch district were doing the rounds on social media on Wednesday. In the attack on the two-vehicle IAF convoy at Surankote tehsil in Poonch district, […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to create divisions between Hindus and Muslims for the sake of votes and urged the public to send him out of power. Addressing a public meeting in the Eidgah locality here in support of party candidate Aga Syed Ruhullah […]
