Tag: Jammu and Kashmir
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Deserted polling booths in Mehbooba’s home segment in Anantnag
Supporters of separatists and terrorists tried to create a scare among the electorate by pelting stones at several polling stations on Monday evening.
April 23, 2019 -
23 POJK residents arrive at Poonch travel point
An official report said that all 23 POJK residents were fresh arrival in India.
April 22, 2019 -
Terrorism, Kashmir their poll plank, but no top BJP leader has come to ground-zero in valley to campaign
Pulwama, where more than 40 CRPF personnel were martyred in a terror attack in February, is also a segment of the Anantnag seat and polling there, along with South Kashmir’s Shopian, will be held on 6 May.
April 22, 2019 -
Governor lifts ban on movement of civilian traffic on Srinagar-Baramulla stretch of highway
An official spokesman said that the ban on the Srinagar-Baramulla stretch of the highway has been withdrawn for Wednesdays and now onwards it will be applicable only on Sundays.
April 20, 2019 -
With ‘stigma’ of having brought BJP & RSS to Kashmir, Mehbooba faces uphill task in Anantnag
Mehbooba, in her rallies, was stressing that her father Mufti Sayeed had formed the coalition government with the BJP with the hope that Modi, with the massive mandate he got in the 2014 elections, would carry forward the peace initiatives of Vajpayee with Pakistan.
April 20, 2019 -
Omar, Mehbooba accuse Modi of dismantling peace legacy of Vajpayee era
The union home ministry had, on Thursday, ordered suspension of trade through both cross-LOC points, Poonch in Jammu and Uri in Kashmir, following reports of Pakistan based elements misusing these routes to push in weapons, narcotics and fake currency.
April 19, 2019 -
Tight security arrangements made for polling in Srinagar, Udhampur constituencies
Top separatists, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik have reiterated their boycott call and also asked the people to observe a complete shutdown on Thursday during the second of the 5-phase election.
April 17, 2019 -
Azad says terror attacks on security forces increased during Modi government
Blaming Modi for the "blatant lie" when he said on Sunday that Congress wants to withdraw forces from Kashmir and would compromise the national security, Azad said he is misleading the nation, as the Congress is committed for uncompromising approach to deal with terrorism and further strengthen the security along borders to plug the infiltration, whereas the Modi government failed to contain infiltration, cross border terrorism and control terrorism in Kashmir.
April 15, 2019 -
‘Protecting’ Articles 370 and 35A main poll issue in Kashmir
In her election rallies in South Kashmir, Mehbooba has warned that threats to abrogate the Articles 370 and 35A and also Modi government’s “muscular approach” towards Kashmir will turn the situation more gruesome and worrying.
April 15, 2019 -
Mehbooba’s motorcade attacked with stones in Anantnag
Mehbooba had gone to a shrine at Khirram in Anantnag district to pay her obeisance and was returning to Bijbehara when the incident took place.
April 15, 2019 -
Army Major dies after slipping into gorge at LoC
Police identified him as Army's Major Vikas Singh (30) of 57 RR.
April 14, 2019 -
Omar, Mehbooba accuse Modi of criticising their families and then stitching alliance with them
Omar was referring to the BJP first forging an alliance with the PDP in 2015 when Mufti Sayeed became the chief minister with BJP's support and after his death, Mehbooba took over the reins of the state government. Modi had criticised the Abdullah and Mufti families in his campaign during the elections in 2014 as well.
April 14, 2019 -
Won’t allow Abdullahs and Muftis to separate J&K from India, says Modi
Congress, National Conference (NC) and PDP remained the target of Modi almost during his entire election speech in which he accused the Abdullah and Mufti families of having destroyed lives of three generations of J&K.
April 14, 2019 -
Azad accuses Modi of creating war hysteria after having failed to implement last election’s promises
Azad said that all those promises and commitments which were made by Modi and BJP during the last elections have proved to be hollow and “jumlas” and after five years Modi government and BJP do not talk of their report card on all those promises but creating fear psychosis, mistrust and war hysteria.
April 13, 2019 -
Poll boycott call of separatists might help BJP, fear Kashmir mainstream parties
As a strategy to prevent the division of their votes, the NC and PDP have not fielded their candidates against the Congress on both Lok Sabha seats of the Jammu division.
April 13, 2019 -
Siachen Day celebrated at world’s highest battlefield
To this day, the Siachen Warriors continue to guard the “Frozen Frontier” with tenacity and resolve against all odds. Siachen Day, every year, honours all the Siachen Warriors who served their motherland while successfully thwarting evil designs of the enemy, over the years.
April 13, 2019 -
Pak shelling in Poonch civilian areas leaves two girls injured
The two girls were injured when the mortars fired by Pakistan troops hit Chapprian village
April 12, 2019