Srinagar: The Chief Electoral Officer of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday evening released the toll count and percentage of votes polled on Monday for different districts of Kashmir valley and Jammu division. 8.3 per cent of the electorate voted in the first-phase of the urban local body polls in Kashmir Valley, while Kargil recorded the […]
Srinagar: Over six per cent of the electorate turned out to cast their votes on Monday in the 83 wards of urban local bodies in Kashmir during the first six hours of polling in the first of the four-phased elections in the valley amidst tight security arrangements, an official said. “Over 5,400 voters have exercised […]
Srinagar: While 26 percent voting was recorded in Kupwara district, the polling percentage remained in single digit in rest of the five districts where voting is going on in first phase of the elections to Urban local bodies in Jammu and Kashmir. Sources said that till 1 pm around 26 percent voting was recorded in […]
Srinagar: A Bharatiya Janata Party candidate was injured in a stone pelting incident in Bandipora on Monday. Sources said that the candidate identified as Adil Ali Buhru son of Ali Mohd, a resident of Plan Bandipora is contesting from ward 15. They said that the candidate was on way to cast his vote when some […]
Srinagar: Twenty people have died while 17 injured suffered injuries after an overcrowded mini bus it plunged into a 200-feet deep gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Saturday, police said. The accident took place at Kela Mod in Ramban. “Of the 17 injured passengers, 10 in critical condition have been airlifted to Jammu city for treatment […]
Srinagar: Army has said that more than 250 militants are ready to infiltrate into this side of the Line of Control. General Operations Commanding of Srinagar based 15 corps of the Indian army while briefing media in remote Keran in northern Kashmir on Friday, however, said the soldiers are ready to give “befitting reply to […]
Srinagar: The Supreme Court of India has dismissed the petition filed by the accused seeking an inquiry by the CBI into the Kathua rape and murder case. The victim, an eight-year-old girl from a minority Muslim nomadic community, had disappeared from near her home in a village near Kathua in the Jammu region on 10 […]
Srinagar: Unidentified gunmen on Friday morning fired at three National Conference workers in Karfali Mohalla area of Habba Kadal in Srinagar. Two among the three have died. Reports said that unknown gunmen shot at the three workers while who received grievous injuries in the attack. They were rushed to SMHS hospital in Srinagar, where two […]
Srinagar: Pakistan has asked India to immediately share the data showing inflow and discharge of water at the Kishanganga hydropower project in Jammu and Kashmir, Dawn reported on Friday. It has also sought dates for inspection of the 330MW hydroelectric project that India had agreed to during a two-day meeting held in August in Lahore […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday said that the candidates contesting the upcoming municipal and panchayat elections have been put in hired hotels “already guarded by heavy contingents of police and paramilitaries”. Additional Director General Police law and order and security Muneer Ahmad Khan while talking about the security plans for the poll […]
