PULWAMA [Yawar Rashid] (KIMS) — Campaigning for the Rajpora assembly seat concluded on Monday evening, with all contesting candidates making their final push to woo voters. The constituency will go to the polls on Wednesday in the first phase of the elections. Candidates organized a series of programs on the final day of campaigning, including […]
SRINAGAR — People’s Conference president Sajad Lone on Monday launched a scathing attack on Lok Sabha member Sheikh Abdul Rashid, alleging that the latter was not in jail for the past two months. Lone said the timing of Rashid’s release from the Tihar jail smacked of a BJP plan. “This is the worst executed plan […]
SHOPIAN — The hospital administration at District Hospital Shopian has failed to address the shortage of radiologists, as both of the hospital’s radiologists are on maternity leave. This has forced patients in Shopian district to seek ultrasound services at private diagnostic centers. Sources reveal that the hospital has been without a radiologist for months, with […]
BARAMULLA — Ahead of Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, independent candidate from Sopore, Ajaz Guru, said that he had not seen any developments in Kashmir in the last 40 years. Speaking to ANI, he said, “I am 58 years old, and I have not seen any development in Kashmir, there are no roads, a […]
SRINAGAR — In a significant political development, the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) headed by Lok Sabha member Sheikh Abdul Rashid alias Engineer and former members of Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) have come together in a strategic alliance for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls. “A joint meeting was held today in which the AIP delegation was led […]
KULGAM — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti Sunday said her party is not contesting the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections only for undertaking developmental works, but to stop the BJP from burying Kashmir issue and Article 370. “It is a matter of shame for the BJP that has been saying the situation has […]
SRINAGAR — Lok Sabha MP Abdul Rashid has said his Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) was contesting the upcoming Assembly elections not for power but to give true representation to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. In an interview with PTI here, Baramulla MP Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, said the people of Kashmir were […]
BARAMULLA — Lok Sabha MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid has strongly dismissed allegations that he serves as a proxy for the BJP and asserted that his electoral success in the general elections was a reflection of the public’s sentiments against the Modi government’s ‘Naya Kashmir’ initiative. In an interview with PTI videos, Rashid, popularly known as […]
SRINAGAR — The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is at its lowest right now but it will play an instrumental role in forming a non-BJP coalition government after the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, party leader Iltija Mufti has said. Iltija, the third generation politician from the Mufti family and daughter of PDP president Mehbooba […]
SRINAGAR — Congress on Saturday accused the Centre of failing to end militant attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and claimed that militancy has returned stronger in union territory where it had been eliminated many years ago. Addressing a press conference at the party office here, the party’s spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said there have been 25 […]