Kashmir Election

Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla is set to break all records as people turned out in droves to vote in the Lok Sabha election -- the first since the scrapping of the Article 370 that gave the erstwhile state its special status.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said his government has made a "solemn promise" for restoration of Jammu and Kashmir's statehood and will stand by it, adding the Centre was working very hard to create the right conditions.

Three youths were injured in a knife attack incident on Sunday at an election rally of the National Conference (NC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.

Polling for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election began today with voting taking place in 49 seats across six states and the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said that the ongoing Lok Sabha elections should be fought over the issues of price rise and unemployment and not on the issue of "insignificant" Pakistan.

With the jailed Engineer Rashid entering the Lok Sabha poll fray in Kashmir, it was time for former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to return the favour for a Rajya Sabha election vote in 2015.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday interacted with several delegations, including BJP leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, on the first day of his two-day visit here.

The banned group Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) has said it is engaged in talks with the Centre and expressed its willingness to contest elections if the ban on the Islamist organisation is lifted in Jammu and Kashmir.

For the past five years, the BJP has been mobilising its workers in Kashmir valley and pushing for a "Naya Kashmir" narrative.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today referred to protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and said "PoK is part of India and we will take it".

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma made a big claim today - that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir will be "merged with India" if BJP gets more than 400 seats in the Lok Sabha polls.

The people of Jammu and Kashmir face a "threat to our very existence because of the removal of Article 370", National Conference leader Omar Abdullah told NDTV Tuesday, a day after voting in Srinagar in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

The Srinagar constituency of Jammu and Kashmir voted on Monday to choose its next representative to the Lok Sabha -- the first election there since the general election of 2019.

A voter turnout of more than 36 per cent took place in the redrawn Srinagar Lok Sabha seat without any untoward incident on Monday, the highest since 1996 when the constituency in Jammu and Kashmir recorded nearly 41 per cent polling.

Three generations of the Abdullah family on Monday cast their vote in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, with National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah appealing to people to turn out in large numbers.

Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla is set to break all records as people turned out in droves to vote in the Lok Sabha election -- the first since the scrapping of the Article 370 that gave the erstwhile state its special status.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said his government has made a "solemn promise" for restoration of Jammu and Kashmir's statehood and will stand by it, adding the Centre was working very hard to create the right conditions.

Three youths were injured in a knife attack incident on Sunday at an election rally of the National Conference (NC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.

Polling for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election began today with voting taking place in 49 seats across six states and the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said that the ongoing Lok Sabha elections should be fought over the issues of price rise and unemployment and not on the issue of "insignificant" Pakistan.

With the jailed Engineer Rashid entering the Lok Sabha poll fray in Kashmir, it was time for former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad to return the favour for a Rajya Sabha election vote in 2015.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday interacted with several delegations, including BJP leaders of Jammu and Kashmir, on the first day of his two-day visit here.

The banned group Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) has said it is engaged in talks with the Centre and expressed its willingness to contest elections if the ban on the Islamist organisation is lifted in Jammu and Kashmir.

For the past five years, the BJP has been mobilising its workers in Kashmir valley and pushing for a "Naya Kashmir" narrative.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today referred to protests in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and said "PoK is part of India and we will take it".

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma made a big claim today - that Pakistan-occupied Kashmir will be "merged with India" if BJP gets more than 400 seats in the Lok Sabha polls.

The people of Jammu and Kashmir face a "threat to our very existence because of the removal of Article 370", National Conference leader Omar Abdullah told NDTV Tuesday, a day after voting in Srinagar in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

The Srinagar constituency of Jammu and Kashmir voted on Monday to choose its next representative to the Lok Sabha -- the first election there since the general election of 2019.

A voter turnout of more than 36 per cent took place in the redrawn Srinagar Lok Sabha seat without any untoward incident on Monday, the highest since 1996 when the constituency in Jammu and Kashmir recorded nearly 41 per cent polling.

Three generations of the Abdullah family on Monday cast their vote in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, with National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah appealing to people to turn out in large numbers.