Anantnag Violence

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said violence will never win in Kashmir, as he condoled the death of a sarpanch who was shot dead in Anantnag district this evening.

Around 62.5 per cent people voted in the fifth round of the national election - up from 61.76 in 2014 -- that was marked by violence in parts of Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. In Bengal, two persons, including a BJP candidate, were injured in separate incidents. A grenade was thrown at a polling booth and an explosion set off elsewhere in Jammu and...

The third and largest phase of the national election witnessed a drop in poll percentage, with only 66 per people turning out to vote. Polling across 117 seats in 13 states and two Union Territories was marred by complaints of glitches in Electronic Voting Machines and violence in several states, in which a man died. The whole of Gujarat and Kerala...

The Election Commission has cancelled the parliamentary by-election in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag, scheduled for May 25, citing security problems.

The Election Commission has sought an unprecedented 74,000 paramilitary personnel from the Centre for deployment during the Anantnag Lok Sabha bypoll on May 25. The Commission has conveyed to the Home Ministry that 740 companies of paramilitary forces should be put at its disposal by May 12, official sources said.

Drive into the deserted streets of Pulwama in south Kashmir, and there is little evidence that it will go to elections in four weeks.

The by-election for Kashmir's Anantnag constituency, which was due on April 12, has been pushed back to May 25, the Election Commission today said, accepting the state government's request for a deferment. The counting of votes will be held on June 1.

Tassaduq Hussain Mufti, the candidate of the ruling People's Democratic Party or PDP, has sought that the by-election he is contesting in south Kashmir's Anantnag be postponed, after massive violence during a by-poll in Srinagar yesterday.

An election in Kashmir, scheduled for Wednesday, must be cancelled, the ruling People's Democratic Party has said. Its candidate for the by-election for the Lok Sabha in Anantnag is Tasaduq Mufti, the brother of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. The call to postpone the election comes after Srinagar, just 59 kms away, witnessed unprecedented violence...

The last time 17-year-old Suraya Gulzar was in a classroom was three months ago. Suraya had to stop going to school in South Kashmir's Anantnag since clashes broke out in the Valley following the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani.

A man was killed today when security forces fired pellet guns in South Kashmir's Anantnag district to control protesters who were throwing stones at security forces. Another person died after being hit by a teargas shell in neighbouring Shopian.

A 21-year-old man was killed today in fresh clashes between protesters and security forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, as normal life remained disrupted for the 60th consecutive day.

Authorities today stopped a protest march by separatists to Anantnag town from Srinagar by taking their leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq into custody even as protesters made a bid at over a dozen places across Kashmir to defy curfew.

When a group of Amarnath pilgrims were injured after their bus met with an accident that also killed two, it was local people in Bijbehara in Anantnag district - one of the Valley's worst-hit in violence - who rushed to their help.

Separatist Yasin Malik has been detained along with four others after they visited the residence of a trucker who was killed over rumours of cow slaughter in south Kashmir.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said violence will never win in Kashmir, as he condoled the death of a sarpanch who was shot dead in Anantnag district this evening.

Around 62.5 per cent people voted in the fifth round of the national election - up from 61.76 in 2014 -- that was marked by violence in parts of Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. In Bengal, two persons, including a BJP candidate, were injured in separate incidents. A grenade was thrown at a polling booth and an explosion set off elsewhere in Jammu and...

The third and largest phase of the national election witnessed a drop in poll percentage, with only 66 per people turning out to vote. Polling across 117 seats in 13 states and two Union Territories was marred by complaints of glitches in Electronic Voting Machines and violence in several states, in which a man died. The whole of Gujarat and Kerala...

The Election Commission has cancelled the parliamentary by-election in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag, scheduled for May 25, citing security problems.

The Election Commission has sought an unprecedented 74,000 paramilitary personnel from the Centre for deployment during the Anantnag Lok Sabha bypoll on May 25. The Commission has conveyed to the Home Ministry that 740 companies of paramilitary forces should be put at its disposal by May 12, official sources said.

Drive into the deserted streets of Pulwama in south Kashmir, and there is little evidence that it will go to elections in four weeks.

The by-election for Kashmir's Anantnag constituency, which was due on April 12, has been pushed back to May 25, the Election Commission today said, accepting the state government's request for a deferment. The counting of votes will be held on June 1.

Tassaduq Hussain Mufti, the candidate of the ruling People's Democratic Party or PDP, has sought that the by-election he is contesting in south Kashmir's Anantnag be postponed, after massive violence during a by-poll in Srinagar yesterday.

An election in Kashmir, scheduled for Wednesday, must be cancelled, the ruling People's Democratic Party has said. Its candidate for the by-election for the Lok Sabha in Anantnag is Tasaduq Mufti, the brother of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. The call to postpone the election comes after Srinagar, just 59 kms away, witnessed unprecedented violence...

The last time 17-year-old Suraya Gulzar was in a classroom was three months ago. Suraya had to stop going to school in South Kashmir's Anantnag since clashes broke out in the Valley following the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani.

A man was killed today when security forces fired pellet guns in South Kashmir's Anantnag district to control protesters who were throwing stones at security forces. Another person died after being hit by a teargas shell in neighbouring Shopian.

A 21-year-old man was killed today in fresh clashes between protesters and security forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, as normal life remained disrupted for the 60th consecutive day.

Authorities today stopped a protest march by separatists to Anantnag town from Srinagar by taking their leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq into custody even as protesters made a bid at over a dozen places across Kashmir to defy curfew.

When a group of Amarnath pilgrims were injured after their bus met with an accident that also killed two, it was local people in Bijbehara in Anantnag district - one of the Valley's worst-hit in violence - who rushed to their help.

Separatist Yasin Malik has been detained along with four others after they visited the residence of a trucker who was killed over rumours of cow slaughter in south Kashmir.