Five troopers of the Rashtriya Rifles and a special police officer were injured Tuesday night when the terrorists attacked a joint check post in the upper reaches of Chattergalla on the Bhaderwah-Pathankot road in the hilly district.
The long term trends on violence in Kashmir are positive and India must secure these gains further, asserts Aakar Patel.
On February 19, 2024, many parts of the Kashmir valley, including the Gulmarg ski resort, were covered with fresh snow.
The glimpses when for the first time, thousands of Kashmiri people attend the 75th Republic Day celebration function parade, at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar on Friday, January 26, 2024.
They said women electors and first-time voters have registered a significant increase.
Asked if the party would approach the court for the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir's statehood, the NC leader said, "I do not want to get into that right now."
Mehbooba Mufti 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.
In 2022 Nanaji Dembi pulled down the Hurriyat office board in Srinagar, an act of defiance that grabbed headlines. Despite such nationalistic bravado, the BJP has denied him a ticket for the assembly election.
On Monday, December 18, 2023, freestyle football champion Agnieszka 'Aguka' Mnich from Poland and German footballer Patrick Bauer performed football tricks in the presence of a huge crowd at the historic Ghanta Ghar at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
The first phase of polling, held on September 18, saw an estimated 61.38 per cent voter turnout, while the final phase is set to take place on October 1 in the crucial elections being held after 10 years.
Several houseboats were gutted after a massive fire broke out on a houseboat in Dal Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar.
Sachin Tendulkar meets Jammu and Kashmir para cricket team captain, differently-abled sportsman, Amir Hussain Lone, calls him a 'real hero, an inspiration, during his trip to the Kashmir Valley.
A multi-layer security grid has been enforced in and around Srinagar, aerial surveillance, bomb disposal squads, drones and sharpshooters guarding the Bakshi Stadium are in place for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Srinagar visit on Thursday, March 7, 2024.
'If, as happened in Baramulla during the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the youth in the Valley get triggered enough to jump into the wider fray, the end result would be difficult to predict, especially as the state's post-August 5, 2019 political format remains substantially fragmented and foggy,' points out Mohammad Sayeed Malik, the veteran commentator on Kashmir affairs.
Omar Abdullah told the media on Friday, April 12, 2024, that he is contesting from north Kashmir as the National Conference wanted to defeat the central government, which is eyeing the Baramulla constituency as Sajjad Lone is contesting from the seat.
Spinner Shams Mulani (5/71) and Himanshu Singh (4/77) wreaked havoc by sharing nine wickets between them as defending champions Mumbai crushed Odisha.
Tral, the former hotbed of terrorism, rocks to the music of democracy.
'The Abdullah family is the problem and facilitator of the instability that we are seeing in Kashmir.'
'I have faced 18 hours of darkness daily all my life.'
The 72-year-old retired police officer, who was the local muezzin, was murdered while he was giving the call for azaan.
Will Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, who gets his orders from New Delhi, call the shots or allow a democratically elected government to independently govern, questions Ramesh Menon.
'We want to ensure that no government in J&K will be formed without our support.'
'Article 370 is now dug 70 feet deep in the ground. It cannot come out.'
The scenes in Kashmir, as security is put on high alert after the judgment of Article 370 was passed by the Supreme Court on Monday, December 11, 2023.
Jammu and Kashmir BJP chief Ravinder Raina, seeking re-election from Nowshera assembly constituency of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir, is facing a major challenge from his former party colleague Surinder Choudhary.
If Rashid cannot be the king, he could be the kingmaker after October 8 when the results to the J&K assembly are declared.
Security forces on Sunday intensified their operation to flush out terrorists from the forest area of Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district on the second day of encounter that has left two soldiers and a civilian dead.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday clinched a stunning hat-trick win in Haryana overcoming anti-incumbency and dashing Congress' hopes of a comeback while the National Conference-Congress combine pulled off a spectacular victory in maiden elections in Jammu and Kashmir after abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.
The notice requested Rashid or a representative of his to appear before the district expenditure monitoring committee within two days to address the discrepancy and ensure timely submission of the expenditure report to the Election Commission of India.
'My mother feels it will be tough and emotional for her to enter an assembly which has essentially been reduced to a municipality now.' 'My opinion is that even if it is a municipality one cannot cede that space to the BJP.'
Restoration of Article 370 and Jammu and Kashmir's statehood as well as implementation of the autonomy resolution passed by the erstwhile assembly in 2000 are among the National Conference's 12 guarantees announced in its manifesto for the upcoming polls.
'INDIA will easily cross 50 seats out of 90 in Jammu and Kashmir.'
People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti and several other regional party leaders on Monday claimed that they have been placed under house arrest on the fifth anniversary of the reading down of Article 370 of the Constitution that provided special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
As winter approaches, the days get shorter and it's the time when the Kashmir Valley turns orange-red.
Umar Ganie captures stunning scenes of Gulmarg after fresh snowfall.
The former chief minister said if there was any danger of his losing from Budgam, then his party colleagues would not have allowed him to contest from Budgam.
'Who are Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti to issue certificates?'
Political parties and leaders wait with bated breath for the Haryana and Jammu-Kashmir assembly poll results on Tuesday.
The Kashmir valley is facing a shortage of electricity at the beginning of the long winter.
The PDP looks a distant third in the race, observes Mohammed Sayeed Malik, the distinguished commentator on Kashmir politics.
