Srinagar By Polls

A delegation of the Election Commission of India (ECI) led by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar reached Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar on Thursday to review poll preparedness ahead of the upcoming assembly polls in the Union Territory.

With election fever gripping Kashmir, women were seen singing and dancing as National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah reached Nagam village as part of his poll campaign. This was in complete contrast to the 2017 bypolls, when Farooq Abdullah contested from here and nobody would come out to root for him. The bypolls had recorded a dismal 7% voting,...

Election authorities in Srinagar have issued a notice to Sheikh Khalid Jehangir, BJP candidate from the Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, for violating the poll code by interacting with first-time voters at a hotel.

A municipality office in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian was set on fire by unidentified people days after controversial local body elections in the state.

People's Conference Chairman Sajjad Lone, an ally of the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, has defended the governor's controversial remarks who had named the next Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation even before the polls were conducted in the city.

Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has come under attack for his comments on NDTV "naming" the next mayor of Srinagar, even before the civic polls are over. The opposition says it exposes the elections as a farce, more of a "selection". Both the National Conference of former chief minister Omar Abdullah and the Congress have strongly reacte...

About two per cent of the electorate voted in the first five hours of polling in 49 wards of urban local bodies in Kashmir Valley, officials said Wednesday. Voting for the second of the four-phased elections in the Valley began at 6 am and will end at 4 pm. Of the 1.78 lakh voters in 19 wards of Srinagar Municipal Corporation, only 1.3 per cent tur...

Jammu and Kashmir witnessed 56.7 per cent polling in the first phase of Urban Local Bodies elections, which has mainly been a contest between the BJP and the Congress after the two key local parties - the National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's PDP - pulled out. In six districts of the Kashmir valley where polling was held, the voter turnout was j...

As Jammu and Kashmir is voting in the first of the four-phased municipal elections after a hiatus of 13 years, voters in Jammu are queuing up at polling stations, but staying away in Kashmir. Brisk voting was observed in almost all the wards in Jammu region with Rajouri registering the highest votes, but only seven per cent voters turned up in Kash...

Under a heavy security blanket, Jammu and Kashmir witnesses the first phase of civic polls today - an election made controversial after the two key parties in the Valley, National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Party, pulled out. With the central government insistent on the election, voting is taking place in 422 of the state's...

Jammu and Kashmir is voting for the first phase of civic polls that has been boycotted by the two key parties in the Valley, National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Party.

Terrorists have opened fire in the heart of Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday. Two died and another one, who has been shifted to the hospital, is in a critical condition.

A short drive from Srinagar, the district of Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir was once the once the bastion of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's family. It is now considered among the most volatile regions in the valley. Security forces are everywhere but not so easily found are political workers.

Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti has called a meeting of her party leaders, to decide if they will boycott the urban local body polls and the panchayat elections later this year. The party has already indicated that it cannot ignore the sentiments of the people until the validity of Article 35 A is protected. ...

When Major Leetul Gogoi arrived at a polling station in Srinagar last month in response to an SOS from poll officials and security personnel trapped inside, his team was attacked by a 1000 -strong group of protesters, who hurled stones and petrol bombs at them.

A delegation of the Election Commission of India (ECI) led by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar reached Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar on Thursday to review poll preparedness ahead of the upcoming assembly polls in the Union Territory.

With election fever gripping Kashmir, women were seen singing and dancing as National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah reached Nagam village as part of his poll campaign. This was in complete contrast to the 2017 bypolls, when Farooq Abdullah contested from here and nobody would come out to root for him. The bypolls had recorded a dismal 7% voting,...

Election authorities in Srinagar have issued a notice to Sheikh Khalid Jehangir, BJP candidate from the Srinagar Parliamentary constituency, for violating the poll code by interacting with first-time voters at a hotel.

A municipality office in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian was set on fire by unidentified people days after controversial local body elections in the state.

People's Conference Chairman Sajjad Lone, an ally of the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, has defended the governor's controversial remarks who had named the next Mayor of Srinagar Municipal Corporation even before the polls were conducted in the city.

Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has come under attack for his comments on NDTV "naming" the next mayor of Srinagar, even before the civic polls are over. The opposition says it exposes the elections as a farce, more of a "selection". Both the National Conference of former chief minister Omar Abdullah and the Congress have strongly reacte...

About two per cent of the electorate voted in the first five hours of polling in 49 wards of urban local bodies in Kashmir Valley, officials said Wednesday. Voting for the second of the four-phased elections in the Valley began at 6 am and will end at 4 pm. Of the 1.78 lakh voters in 19 wards of Srinagar Municipal Corporation, only 1.3 per cent tur...

Jammu and Kashmir witnessed 56.7 per cent polling in the first phase of Urban Local Bodies elections, which has mainly been a contest between the BJP and the Congress after the two key local parties - the National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's PDP - pulled out. In six districts of the Kashmir valley where polling was held, the voter turnout was j...

As Jammu and Kashmir is voting in the first of the four-phased municipal elections after a hiatus of 13 years, voters in Jammu are queuing up at polling stations, but staying away in Kashmir. Brisk voting was observed in almost all the wards in Jammu region with Rajouri registering the highest votes, but only seven per cent voters turned up in Kash...

Under a heavy security blanket, Jammu and Kashmir witnesses the first phase of civic polls today - an election made controversial after the two key parties in the Valley, National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Party, pulled out. With the central government insistent on the election, voting is taking place in 422 of the state's...

Jammu and Kashmir is voting for the first phase of civic polls that has been boycotted by the two key parties in the Valley, National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's People's Democratic Party.

Terrorists have opened fire in the heart of Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday. Two died and another one, who has been shifted to the hospital, is in a critical condition.

A short drive from Srinagar, the district of Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir was once the once the bastion of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's family. It is now considered among the most volatile regions in the valley. Security forces are everywhere but not so easily found are political workers.

Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti has called a meeting of her party leaders, to decide if they will boycott the urban local body polls and the panchayat elections later this year. The party has already indicated that it cannot ignore the sentiments of the people until the validity of Article 35 A is protected. ...

When Major Leetul Gogoi arrived at a polling station in Srinagar last month in response to an SOS from poll officials and security personnel trapped inside, his team was attacked by a 1000 -strong group of protesters, who hurled stones and petrol bombs at them.