JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Campaigning for the final phase of polling in the three-set J&K assembly elections ended peacefully at 6pm Sunday, marking the start of the mandatory 48-hour silent period before voting on October 1. This round will cover 40 assembly segments across seven districts: Jammu, Udhampur, Samba, and Kathua in Jammu region, and Baramulla, Bandipora, and…
GANDERBAL: An ace swimmer is aiming to drown NC stalwart Omar Abdullah‘s electoral hopes in Ganderbal, his family bastion. The “legend” of Bashir Mir, PDP‘s candidate, is that he often plunges into the choppy waters of Sind river to rescue people without caring for his own life.The buzz is: If someone stakes his life for…
SRINAGAR:National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Sunday said his party would keep Article 370 issue alive until it is restored. He also accused the UT administration of failing to curb militancy.“We can’t predict if Article 370 will be restored tomorrow or during this assembly, but we will keep the issue alive, just as BJP…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah, in a big charge on Saturday, said the Congress and National Conference (NC) alliance wants to release the separatists and terrorist sympathisers to destabalise Jammu and Kashmir.The home minister also claimed that the three parties, Congress, NC and Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP, “want to push J&K into the fire…
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…
SRINAGAR: J&K Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra pushed back Thursday against allegations by BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav that former militants are assisting National Conference (NC) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in their campaign for the Sept 18-Oct 1 assembly elections.“Madhav seems unaware of his party inducting ex-militants into its fold,” Karra said after…
NEW DELHI: BJP leader Ram Madhav on Wednesday levelled a big charge against the Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Farooq Abdullah‘s National Conference (NC), claiming that both the parties have the backing of ex-militants for the upcoming assembly polls.Madhav, who is BJP’s in-charge for J&K assembly elections, said both parties want to take…
SRINAGAR: National Conference (NC) is considering fielding its president, Farooq Abdullah, and his son, NC vice-president Omar Abdullah, as its “star candidates” for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections in an attempt to give a tough fight to BJP and some smaller regional parties seen as the saffron party’s tactical allies.PDP, meanwhile, announced on Monday…
NEW DELHI: A 5.3 magnitude earthquake on Thursday hit the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. Strong tremors were felt across the town and also in Manali, which is over 350 km from the town of Chamba. The quake struck around 9.30 pm as confirmed by the National Center for Seismology.On April 1, smaller intensity earthquakes…
