BARAMULLA/SOPORE: With J&K elections cutting to the chase, North Kashmir will determine if the “X-factor” label to Engineer Rashid was justified or his appeal fizzled out in the face of resurgence of National Conference and People’s Conference (PC) in his stronghold.Voting on Tuesday will be key to who forms govt in the post-370 UT, with…
NEW DELHI: Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, commonly known as Engineer Rashid, was attacked on Sunday when a man stomped on the bonnet of his vehicle’s cabinet and shattered the front windshield. The incident occurred in the Langate area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, on the final day of electioneering. Rashid, who was inside the…
ANANTNAG: Often celebrated as the “Land of Poets”, the air in Dooru seems thick with the echoes of classical Persian and Kashmiri verses. Among the poets and storytellers, Saadat Hasan Manto had roots in this pretty town cradled by the towering Pir Panjal range in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.Dooru is currently drawing attention not for…
NEW DELHI: Engineer Rashid, who recently stepped out of jail after interim bail in a terror-funding case, said on Thursday he would support the opposition INDIA bloc candidates in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir elections if it promises to restore Article 370, which granted the Valley a special status.“If INDIA alliance assures us that it…
SRINAGAR: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah submitted Thursday his nomination papers from Budgam in central Kashmir, choosing to contest from two constituencies in the J&K assembly elections. The day before, he had filed his papers for the family stronghold of Ganderbal, where the race intensified with some contestants apparently complicating matters for Omar.Both…
NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: A Delhi court has sought NIA‘s response on jailed Baramulla MP and Awami Ittehad Party president Abdul Rashid Sheikh’s plea seeking regular bail ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, starting Sept 18.Additional sessions judge Chander Jit Singh of Patiala House courts issued notice to NIA on Tuesday, directing…
