Jammu & Kashmir polls end: Overall voting 64%, 69% in phase III

Jammu & Kashmir polls end: Overall voting 64%, 69% in phase III

Trehgam: The third and final phase of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday recorded a 68.72% turnout. This phase recorded the highest turnout, with the first phase recording 61.38% and second phase 57.31%. The overall polling percentage in the three phases was 63.45%. The main issues this time were unemployment, lack of development, … Read more

Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections: 40 seats to vote today in phase 3

Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections: 40 seats to vote today in phase 3

The last phase of polling in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir will be held on Tuesday. More than 39.18 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their electoral franchise across the 40 assembly constituencies, 16 in the Kashmir valley and 24 in the Jammu region. This is the first assembly election in J&K since the … Read more

Opposition can’t reinstate Article 370: Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal

Opposition can’t reinstate Article 370: Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal

Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has said that the Opposition can’t reinstate Article 370 and accused them of misguiding the people of Jammu and Kashmir on this. “They (the opposition) can’t bring it again (Article 370). They are just misguiding people; the way they did during the Lok Sabha elections by saying that we (the … Read more

Jammu and Kashmir elections: Left NC for Jammu’s sake, had differences with Abdullahs: Devender Rana

Jammu and Kashmir elections: Left NC for Jammu’s sake, had differences with Abdullahs: Devender Rana

Devender Rana has had an interesting journey in politics. He won the Nagrota assembly constituency in Jammu district in December 2014 on a National Conference ticket, the lone candidate from the party to score a victory in the region then. Brother of Jitendra Singh, Union MoS in the PMO, Rana was once a close associate … Read more

Digvijaya slams Pakistan minister for remarks on Article 370

Digvijaya slams Pakistan minister for remarks on Article 370

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh. Indore: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday slammed Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif for his remarks on Article 370 and asserted the neighbouring country has no right to comment on India’s affairs. Asif has said the Shehbaz Sharif government in Pakistan and the Congress-National Conference alliance in Jammu and Kashmir … Read more

Congress Releases Manifesto For J&K Polls; Promises Full Statehood, Unemployment Allowance Up To Rs 3.5k For Youth

Congress Releases Manifesto For J&K Polls; Promises Full Statehood, Unemployment Allowance Up To Rs 3.5k For Youth

Last Updated: September 16, 2024, 20:17 IST The manifesto was released by AICC chief spokesperson Pawan Khera and PCC president Tariq Hameed Karra at the party office. (Image: INC) For the youth of Jammu and Kashmir, the party promised an unemployment allowance of up to Rs 3,500 per month for one year to qualified youths. … Read more

Amit Shah rules out talks with Pakistan; ‘Terrorism & talks cannot go hand in hand’ – The Economic Times Video

Amit Shah rules out talks with Pakistan; ‘Terrorism & talks cannot go hand in hand’ – The Economic Times Video

Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in J&K, Union Home Minister Amit shah launched a brutal attack on the Opposition and said that Article 370 is now a part of history. While answering a reporter Amit Shah also rejected the possibility of having a dialogue with Pakistan. “I want to say to the country that … Read more

Congress, NC, PDP want to roll back J&K into early 1990’s: BJP’s Tarun Chugh

Congress, NC, PDP want to roll back J&K into early 1990’s: BJP’s Tarun Chugh

The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir in-charge Tarun Chugh on Thursday challenged the National Conference, People’s Democratic Party and the Congress to an open debate on the decisions of August 5, 2019 and ground situation in the union territory since then. Chugh along with other BJP leaders inaugurated the party’s media center in Jammu which will … Read more

J&K assembly elections: Mehbooba Mufti not to contest

J&K assembly elections: Mehbooba Mufti not to contest

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said she will not contest the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, pointing out that she would not be able to fulfil her party’s agenda in the union territory set up even if she were to become the chief minister. “I have been chief minister of a government with … Read more

J&K parties likely to release poll manifestos next week

J&K parties likely to release poll manifestos next week

Srinagar: Political parties across the spectrum in Jammu and Kashmir have gone into a huddle to finalise their manifestos for the assembly elections with meetings scheduled on Sunday and Monday and the manifestos are likely to be released early next week. The representatives of the majority of the political parties across J&K stated that the … Read more