Naveed Iqbal

In Jammu, where Bhat's body was taken for cremation, angry mourners confronted BJP leaders and accused them of making Kashmiri Pandits “sacrificial goats’’ by sending them to Kashmir in the name of the PM’s employment package.

We do not need a building to pray, do not give right-wing groups cause for violence, says former J&K CM

“We outrightly reject it,” said PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti. She said the Delimitation Commission had “overlooked the basis of population and acted as per their wish... We don’t trust it. Its recommendations are a link to abrogation of Article 370 — how to disempower people of J&K.”

While NC vice-president Omar, who holds no official post in the PAGD, was the first to call for a united front for polls, he had been backed by PDP president and PAGD vice-president Mehbooba Mufti.

Faesal launched a party in 2019 to provide 'new politics' to J&K but resigned from it after being released from detention in August 2020.

According to the administration, investment of more than Rs 52,000 crore has been proposed in the Union Territory. Of this, 52 per cent is in Jammu and the rest is in Kashmir.

The CEO’s notice states that keeping in view the political developments in LAHDC, Kargil, “it would not be appropriate to go ahead with the General Council Meeting till position of all the Hon’ble Councilors is cleared with regard to their support to the present dispensation.

On Wednesday night, J&K police said that it received inputs of militant presence in the Rainawari area of Srinagar. In the ensuing encounter, two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were killed — Hilal Ahmad Rah and Bhat, both residents of Bijbehara.

A number of local elected officials in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday stayed away from a virtual conference organised by Lieutenant-Governor Manoj Sinha, while some others walked out of meeting rooms as they were not given a chance to speak, it is learnt.

The CPM chief calls for a ‘broadest possible secular’ front to save the Constitution as ‘India is down on all parameters’ and has been classified as an 'electoral autocracy’.

The most recent draft includes small changes that were made to the earlier drafts after objections raised by National Conference (NC) MPs and suggestions by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs.

The attack took place at around 4.20 pm in the busy Amira Kadal area that also sees a popular Sunday street market.

Prayers at the mosque have only been allowed sparingly since the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status on August 5, 2019

According to senior police officials, Dar was booked for “giving inciting statements and statements adverse to public peace and tranquility of Kashmir Valley in general and Srinagar town in particular”

Calling the proposed changes to the constituencies unfortunate, Abdullah said: “Election is the basis of democracy and the very first thing for that is the delimitation report."

In November 2021, the J&K government granted sanction for the creation of a new, specialised investigating body, the State Investigation Agency. What was the need for this, and what does it do?

The commission is tasked with redrawing boundaries of Assembly constituencies post the splitting of the state into two union territories on August 5, 2019.

Three in Kashmir: Gurez in Bandipore, Karnah in Kupwara, and the newly-carved Kunzer in Baramulla

In the draft paper, the Commission has proposed changes in Baramulla, Kupwara, Srinagar, Kulgam and Anantnag districts of the Kashmir division.

This comes months after members of three central Kashmir DDCs -- Budgam, Ganderbal and Srinagar -- moved no-confidence motions against their respective chairpersons.

Amit Shah's statements drew sharp reactions from political parties in the Valley, with leaders questioning the definition of “normalcy”.

Militancy-related data compiled by the UT government also records busting of almost 195 “terror modules” across J&K over the last two calendar years 2020 and 2021 and busting of about 35 terror hideouts last year.

The three NC parliamentarians — Farooq Abdullah, Hasnain Masoodi and Akbar Lone – who are associate members of the delimitation panel had stayed away from the earlier meeting held in February this year.

🔴 Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said the administration was finding new ways to deprive young people of their rights.