NEW DELHI — Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was on Friday remanded in six-day Enforcement Directorate custody ending March 28 by a local court, a day after the probe agency arrested him in connection with the excise policy case, PTI reported. The central agency, which had arrested Kejriwal on Thursday evening, produced him before the […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Friday said the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was a “blot” on democracy, and shows the ruling party’s “remarkable degree of nervousness,” according to PTI. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said his party stands with Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). […]
SRINAGAR (KIMS) — Ahead of upcoming Lok Sabha Election, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday allocates ‘Bucket’ as the election symbol for Ghulam Nabi Azad led Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP). The symbol was allocated to the Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) for the Lok Sabha elections. According to Chief Spokesperson of Democratic […]
SRINAGAR — “Mehbooba Mufti would have supported the NC on all three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir if Farooq Abdullah or Omar Abdullah had consulted her before announcing their decision to contest,” senior PDP leader Waheed ur Rehman Para said on Thursday, according to PTI. Mufti, the president of the PDP, on March 8 expressed […]
SRINAGAR — Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said voting is the only power left with people of Jammu and Kashmir as the BJP-ruled Centre is making all efforts to suppress their voices, PTI reported. “All kinds of injustices are being done and Jammu and Kashmir has been turned into a jail. To […]
JAMMU — Congress workers on Wednesday celebrated the merger of the Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party (DSSP) led by former minister Choudhary Lal Singh with their party here on Wednesday, expressing hope that his joining will boost the party’s prospects in the Udhampur parliamentary constituency of Jammu and Kashmir. The 65-year-old Singh, who hails from Kathua […]
SRINAGAR — Abdul Rashid Sheikh alias Engineer Rashid (56), a former MLA who is currently lodged in jail on UAPA charges, will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla constituency on an Awami Ittehad Party ticket. He was arrested in 2019 and charged by the National Investigation Agency under the Unlawful Activities […]
SRINAGAR — National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Monday accused the Jammu and Kashmir administration of “sabotaging” the conduct of assembly polls in the union territory, saying the current dispensation wants to continue to rule like uncrowned kings. “We wanted simultaneous elections along with Lok Sabha elections. But, it did not happen. The current […]
MUMBAI — In a veiled attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre, National Conference Chief and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah on Sunday took a swipe, saying that the Election Commission would become “independent” after the opposition bloc- INDIA will form the government. Speaking at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat […]
MUMBAI — Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mehbooba Mufti who participated in the INDIA leaders’ rally in Mumbai took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that the people of ruling party are ‘scared of Gandhi’ referring to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s surname. Mufti, while addressing the Bharat Jodo Nyay Manzil, INDIA bloc’s […]