New Delhi: On the eve of the third phase of voting in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar urged voters to participate in greater numbers. Kumar congratulated the people of J&K for turning out in record numbers. During the first phase, the voter turnout was 61.38%, and in the second […]
Visits Martyrs’ Memorial At Pratap Park, Thanks Govt For Opportunity To Serve People Srinagar: Director General of Police Rashmi Ranjan Swain, the 1991 batch IPS officer, visited the martyrs’ memorial at Pratap Park on Monday to pay homage to security forces who sacrificed their lives in the fight against insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir. “A […]
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has put in abeyance the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s order to appoint an Army colonel as SSP (Training and Special Operations), citing a ban on transfer of officers connected to elections as the Model Code of Conduct is in force. In its order to the chief secretary, the EC said […]
Srinagar: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo, today visited the Legislative Assembly Complex Srinagar to assess its final readiness for holding sessions after culmination of the ongoing assembly elections in the Union Territory. During his visit to the complex, the Chief Secretary took round of the Assembly Hall, Meeting Halls, as well as the chambers designated for […]
Srinagar: People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday condemned Israel’s military operations in the region, saying the country has turned both Palestine and Lebanon into gas chambers. In an interview, Mufti also called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the “biggest terrorist after Adolf Hitler”. “Hitler set up gas chambers to kill people but […]
Srinagar: J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) chief Tariq Hameed Karra Monday said that Congress-NC alliance is not about parties rather it is an alliance of people to challenge BJP’s divisive politics. He claimed that the spirit of voters is “very high” who voted to alliance during phase 1 & 2, and hoped with the culmination […]
Srinagar: National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Monday said the INDI alliance will take the decision on the Waqf bill after it is sent back by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to Parliament. Farooq said this while replying to a question that Home Minister Amit Shah had said in Haryana today that the Waqf bill […]
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday exuded confidence that his party will form governments in Haryana, and Jammu and Kashmir, while claiming that the Assembly elections’ verdict on October 8 would mark the “countdown” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “exit” from the Centre. In an interview, he also accused the BJP of […]
Srinagar: Security forces on Monday extended the ongoing search operations to new areas in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua and Rajouri districts to hunt down terrorists following recent encounters in the region, officials said. While a policeman and a terrorist were killed and two police officers injured in a fierce gunbattle in remote Kog-Mandli forest village […]
New Delhi: More than 56 years after an ill-fated AN-12 aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed over the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh, the mortal remains of four more victims were recovered, marking a significant success in one of India’s longest-running search operations. Army officials said the mortal remains were found by a joint […]