JAMMU: The Baramulla parliamentary constituency registered 34.61 percent polling while for Jammu it was registered at 72.61 percent. The first phase of polling in Jammu and Baramulla Parliamentary constituencies of J&K with a total voter turnout of 57.31 percent. Addressing media persons here at a Press Conference, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) J&K Shailendra Kumar said […]
Srinagar: A seventh class student was killed after forces opened fire during clashes with the youth in north Kashmir’s Mandigam area of Qaziabad Handwara. Local reports identified the slain as Owais Ahmad Mir, son of Mushtaq Ahmad, a resident of Mandigam Qaziabad . Reports said that the youth in the area were protesting and also […]
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) patron and party candidate for Srinagar parliamentary polls, Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said that New Delhi should remember that people of Jammu and Kashmir are not their slaves. “If they want us to do so then they should be ready for the situation that will emerge here, which can’t be controlled,” […]
Srinagar: Hurriyat (M) Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has reached Srinagar after he was questioned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for three consecutive days in a terror funding case in Delhi. According to the hurriyat activists, when Mirwaiz reached the airport, a large number of workers received the leader. They said that the chief cleric […]
Mumbai: Naxals triggered an IED blast near a polling booth in Maharashtra’s Gadchroli district Thursday while voting for the Lok Sabha poll was underway, police said. There were no casualties, a police official said. The IED (improvised explosive device) blast took place around 10.30 am in Waghezari area, around 150 metres from the polling booth where […]
Srinagar: Sopore town in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district recorded lowest turnout till 3 PM in all Constituencies for Baramulla seat in Lok Sabha polls where election is underway. As per the official statement 3376 votes were casted out of 111928 votes in Sopore till 3 PM which is lowest turnout among all constituencies so far for […]
Srinagar: French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler on Thursday dismissed as “fake news” reports that a batch of Pakistani pilots was trained on Rafale fighter jets being procured by Qatari Air Force. American aviation industry website ainonline.Com reported that the first batch of pilots trained on the Rafale fighter jet for Qatar in November 2017 were Pakistani […]
Islamabad: A Pakistani high court on Thursday declared that the two Hindu teenage sisters were not forcibly converted from Hinduism to Islam, and permitted them to live with their spouses, according to a media report. The two girls, Raveena (13) and Reena (15), and their spouses petitioned the Islamabad High Court on March 25 against alleged […]
Srinagar: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, CNN reported on Thursday. The Metropolitan Police said its officers went into the embassy, where Assange has been living for the past seven years, to detain him for “failing to surrender to the court” over a warrant issued in 2012. He […]
Srinagar: Mehbooba Mufti Thursday alleged that a voter was manhandled by armed forces in Jammu after he refused to cast vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party. “A voter at polling booth in Jammu was manhandled by the BSF because he refused to cast his vote for BJP. Using armed forces at polling stations to coerce people […]
