Jammu and Kashmir

According to political expert Noor Mohammad Baba, if Mehbooba loses the polls, it will be tough for her to establish herself and her party.

Srinagar; Exit Polls on Saturday projected three seats for the National Conference (NC) in Jammu and Kashmir and two seats for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Most of the Exit Polls have predicted Srinagar, Baramulla and…

Jammu, May 30 (IANS) District Magistrate Jammu has initiated a magisterial inquiry to investigate the cause of the bus accident near Akhnoor in Jammu on Thursday involving a bus carrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh heading towards Shiv…

Both Zahir and Zamir also attended the election campaign meetings of NC with their father in all three parliamentary seats in the Valley.

Jammu: Three people were injured in a mysterious explosion in J&K's Samba district on Monday evening, officials said. The incident occurred in the Madana area of Veerpur in Samba. "The injured persons have been shifted to…

Srinagar: The J&K Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said that it arrested a cashier in the Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Ltd's (KPDCL) Sopore office on Monday while accepting a bribe. An ACB statement said that a senior…

Srinagar: J&K Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) P. K. Pole on Saturday said that the tentative poll percentage in the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency is 53 per cent while for the entire J&K, the poll percentage is 58 per cent,…

Jammu: Seeking support of nearly 27,000 Kashmiri Pandits in the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency, political parties are leaving no stone unturned to secure the votes of the community. The seat goes to the polls on May 25. The displaced…

The PDP has been weakened considerably by desertions since the fall of its coalition government with the BJP in June 2018.

Sopore, 55 km from Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, along with adjoining areas has mostly responded to the separatist-sponsored poll boycott calls in the past.

Jammu: The stage is set for the polls in the lone constituency in northernmost union territory of the country — Ladakh — where a polling station has been established at the height of over 14,700 feet above sea level. Only three…

Officials said there was a clash between two groups over some issue during the rally. Taking advantage of the melee, the attackers managed to escape.

The BJP has not fielded its candidates for the three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir but unofficially extended support to some of the new political parties formed after the abrogation of Article 370.

Wraps up brief Srinagar visit, no official word on security review meet

Srinagar: NC vice-president Omar Abdullah on Friday challenged the development narrative of the BJP at Gurez, an area near the LoC. “In the past five years, they (BJP) have been saying a lot has changed in Kashmir. I thought a lot might…

A leader said there is more enthusiasm in north Kashmir districts and Bandipora as compared to the Srinagar seat.

The former Ameer-e-Jamaat (leader of the party) was reacting to a letter doing the rounds on social media with claims that the Majlis-e-Shoora of the Jamaat had not sanctioned participation in the elections.

It is for the first time since 1998 that no member of the Abdullah family is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Srinagar.

PDP candidate from Srinagar Waheed Para accused a senior IPS officer of trying to engineer a low voter turnout in areas where the party has a strong support base.

In the Srinagar seat, polling will be held on May 13, while Baramulla will vote on May 20 and Anantnag on May 25.