JAMMU — People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti claimed on Monday that the high voter turnout in Kashmir in the fourth and fifth phases of polling for the ongoing Lok Sabha election is reflective of people’s anger against the BJP-led centre for abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcating the erstwhile state of […]
SRINAGAR — In the wake of two militant attacks last week, Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary Atal Dulloo Monday chaired a high-level meeting of civil and police administration to review the security situation in the Union territory, an official spokesperson said. The meeting was taken in view of the ensuing tourist season and ongoing elections […]
JAMMU — Thirty-two per cent of Kashmiri migrant voters exercised their franchise in the Baramulla parliamentary constituency where voting was held in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election on Monday. Officials said there was a marked increase in polling by migrants this time as compared to 2019 and 2014. “Thirty-two per cent polling […]
SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency, which was once militancy-infested, recorded its highest-ever voter turnout on Monday at 59 per cent on a violence-free polling day, the Union territory’s Chief Electoral Officer P K Pole said here. He also said that the Sopore assembly segment of the parliamentary constituency witnessed a healthy […]
SRINAGAR — The Hurriyat Conference on Monday said the government should desist from using force against political prisoners and the youth. Paying tributes to Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone, who fell to the bullets of militants on May 21 in 1990 and 2002 respectively, the Hurriyat Conference said the absence of these leaders […]
SRINAGAR — Improvement has been noted in the condition of the tourist couple who got injured in a firing by militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam area last week, officials said here on Monday. “Tabrez Khan and his wife Farah are undergoing treatment at 92 Base Hospital of the Army. They are both stable and […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Monday said tourism should not be linked to the security situation in Kashmir as tourist arrivals are not the right barometer of normalcy and this makes tourists a target. The situation in the Valley is “not normal”, Abdullah told reporters after visiting polling booths in […]
JAMMU — The migrant Kashmiri Pandits turned out in large numbers to vote in the Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency despite the heat wave, expressing strong support for the creation of dedicated townships for their return and rehabilitation, as well as the restoration of temples in the valley. Over 21.30 per cent of the 17.37 lakh […]
JAMMU — All Jammu and Kashmir Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) on Sunday condemned the killing of a former sarpanch by militants in Shopian and demanded an NIA probe into the incident. Militants struck at two places in Kashmir on Saturday night, killing a former sarpanch in Shopian and injuring a tourist couple from Rajasthan in Anantnag, […]
JAMMU — Reaching out to displaced Kashmiri Pandits, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday assured them of her party’s support in their return and rehabilitation in the valley, provided they ‘demonstrate boldness and come back to their homes’. Mehbooba, a former chief minister who is fighting Lok Sabha elections from the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, […]