SRINAGAR — The three border districts of Kashmir Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara registered a voter turnout of 60 per cent with traditional boycott bastions of Sopore and Baramulla towns witnessing the highest turnout in an election in the last three decades. However, the turnout in the 16 Assembly segments of these three districts on Tuesday […]
PALWAL (HARYANA) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched an attack on the Congress party, reviving the “urban naxal” accusation and saying that while Congress claims it will restore Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), it has never said that it will reclaim Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Addressing a public rally in Haryana’s Palwal, […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday hit out at the Centre over the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and several other Ladakhis, saying even the fundamental right to protest has been “snatched” from the people. Wangchuk and around 120 others on a march to Delhi demanding Sixth Schedule status for […]
JAMMU — State BJP President and candidate from Nowshera Assembly seat Ravinder Raina said that a large number of people are voting in the last phase of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and voting percentage has been unexpected. Ravinder Raina said, “A large number of people are voting in the last phase of assembly […]
JAMMU — Long denied the right to vote, members of the Valmiki community exercised their franchise for the first time in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections on Tuesday and termed it as a “historic moment”. The Valmikis were originally brought to J&K in 1957 from Punjab’s Gurdaspur district for sanitation work by the state […]
JAMMU — Union minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday said the enthusiastic participation of people in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls reflects the success of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies and “true mainstreaming” of democracy in the Union territory. He also accused previous regimes, especially of the national conference and Congress, of misusing Article 370 […]
NEW DELHI — The Congress on Tuesday urged the people of Jammu and Kashmir to vote in large numbers in the third and final phase of the assembly polls, with Rahul Gandhi calling on them to remember that this election is about their self-respect and rights. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge appealed to the voters to […]
KUPWARA — Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) President Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer Rashid on Tuesday dismissed speculation about aligning with the BJP and asserted that the main aim of his party is to restrore peace in Kashmir. “Why will I join hands with the BJP? Power is a very small thing for me. I was […]
NEW DELHI — Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday urged the people of Jammu and Kashmir to vote in large numbers in the third and final phase of the assembly polls in the union territory and “teach a lesson” to those who snatched statehood from them. Voting for the third phase is underway in 40 […]
JAMMU — Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday appealed to voters to exercise their franchise in the third and last phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls. Azad, who was among the early voters here, also said that unemployment is the biggest issue in the union territory but it […]