SRINAGAR: The stage is set for the second leg of the three-phase Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls on Wednesday. Tight ...
Modi’s visit to Srinagar city in the Kashmir Valley — the heartland of decades of anti-India rebellion — comes amid strong public opposition there to New Delhi’s changes five years back.
Modi’s BJP has a strong political base in Hindu-dominated areas of Jammu that largely favor the 2019 changes but is weak in the Kashmir Valley, the heartland of anti-India rebellion.
“Our own government can do that.” People in the Kashmir Valley had layered rights to use of land since reforms in the 1950s that mainly gave Muslim farmers possession of land they tilled for ...
Modi’s BJP has a strong political base in Hindu-dominated areas of Jammu that largely favor the 2019 changes but is weak in the Kashmir Valley, the heartland of anti-India rebellion.
Over 2.5 million voters will decide the fate of 239 candidates in competition in the second phase of the polls.
Once hotbeds of militancy and street protests, volatile pockets of south Kashmir’s Pulwama, Anantnag, Kulgam and Shopian districts on Wednesday (September 18, 2024) showed a significant shift ...
Udhampur and Delhi with the hope of returning to the Valley. A voter showing his ink-marked finger after casting his vote during the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections ...
Instead, they encouraged at least 10 members of their organization to run as independent candidates across the Kashmir Valley. “Jamaat-e-Islami has never had issues with India, yet the ...
The constituencies were redrawn as part of the delimitation exercise in 2022 to increase the seat share of the Hindu-majority Jammu region at the cost of Kashmir Valley where Muslims are in the ...
Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has little presence in the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley. It skipped running candidates there in India's general elections this year for the first time since 1996.
Mohammad Shafi Pandit, the first Muslim IAS officer from Kashmir, passed away on Thursday ... of J&K and was a role model for youth from the Valley to join the civil services," the Congress ...