NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rajeev Shukla has rebuffed Pakistan for “unnecessarily” raking up the Kashmir issue at a UN meeting, warning that its campaign of misinformation cannot change the facts on the ground.Delivering India’s riposte to Pakistan at the UN session on Tuesday, Shukla, without naming the neighbour, said “a delegation”, which is “habitual of…
NEW DELHI: The Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Monday elected veteran National Conference leader and seven-time MLA Abdul Rahim Rather as its speaker as the first listed transaction of the business in the first session after a gap of six years.Chief minister Omar Abdullah and protem speaker Mubarak Gul congratulated Rather as he took Chair…
NEW DELHI: The victory in the Haryana assembly elections has been snatched from the Congress party and the system has been misused, MP Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday and added that the party has been made to lose but it “has not lost. “As the BJP seems to retain Haryana, the Congress again blamed the…
NEW DELHI: As results came in for assembly elections in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir, the mandate gave a thumbs up to the National Conference (NC) and Congress alliance in Jammu and Kashmir. But the big surprise came for Haryana where Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to make a government in the state for…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for the third and final phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, with 40 constituencies up for grabs. The high-stakes campaigning drew to a close on Sunday evening, setting the stage for a crucial vote.The constituencies are split between the two regions, with 24 in Jammu and…
NEW DELHI: The second phase of elections in Jammu and Kashmir is set to take place across 26 constituencies on Wednesday, with over 13,000 polling personnel deployed at 3,500 stations. Voters will choose from 239 candidates in this highly anticipated phase, which covers politically sensitive regions, including the border districts of Rajouri, Poonch, and Reasi,…
NEW DELHI: The first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections concluded on Wednesday with a voter turnout of 58.85 per cent across the Kashmir Valley and Jammu regions. Kishtwar recorded the highest turnout at 77 per cent, while Pulwama saw the lowest at just over 46 per cent. This marks the first assembly…
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: Tariq Hameed Karra, the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee chief, on Saturday said that the party was ready to contest all 90 seats in the upcoming assembly polls independently. But, the alliance with the National Conference was formed under a “national compulsion”, he added. He asserted that the alliance was forged to…
NEW DELHI: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Friday said that forming a pre-poll alliance with Congress for the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir was a challenging decision for the party. He added that to ally, the party had to “sacrifice” many seats where it believed it had a chance of…
