Er Rasheed exhorts people to ‘caste every single vote’

Says boycott 'will help enemies of JK'

Uri/Kupwara: On the last day of election campaign, AIP candidate for Baramullah parliament seat, Er. Rasheed addressed many rallies in Uri, Rafiabad, Handwara and Kupwara constituencies and thanked people for their “huge love and support” during the entire campaign. Rasheed reiterated his appeal to masses and said that AIP had emerged as a “strong, popular, […]

Forces damage militant hideout in Shopian

Shopian: Government forces on Tuesday morning busted a militant hideout in forests of Yawran Keller area of South Kashmir’s Shopian district. Sources said that the operation was carried out by a joint team of the police and Army’s 23 Para, police said. The hideout was later destroyed using explosives. They said that incriminating material was […]

Rise to occasion to ostracize BJP, PDP: Mir

Srinagar: Maintaining that PDP-BJP unholy alliance was a “big cause of alienation among the people in the State, the J&K Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) President G A Mir appealed the people to rise to the occasion to defeat these parties and to “ostracize” them. He said these parties had “always exploited common masses for the […]

Elderly man, minor killed, three injured in car mishap

Bhaderwah: A 70-year-old man and a girl were killed and three others critically injured when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district Tuesday, police said. The five family members were on way to their home in Kishtwar when their car rolled down a hill […]

CPI (M) appeals to Jammu electorate to vote for secular candidates

Jammu: The CPI (M) Tuesday appealed to the people of Jammu to exercise their franchise in favour of the secular dispensation led by the Congress. The Jammu and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies will go to polls in the first phase of the five-phased elections in the state on April 11. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), […]

Book those uttering anti-national remarks during campaigns: BJP leader

Poonch: Reminding the top NC leadership that former chief minister Sheikh Abdullah was jailed for anti national remarks in 1953, a BJP leader in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday said those raising “similar anti-national remarks” should be booked under sedition and banned from contesting polls. Two-time minister Sham Lal Sharma, who recently resigned from the Congress […]

PC activist falls off a moving vehicle during electioneering

Srinagar: A 37- year old activist of Peoples Conference (PC) was injured critically after he fell from a moving vehicle near Bakhihaker in Handwara area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Tuesday afternoon. Reports said that the man identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Mir son of Ghulam Mohammad Mir, a resident of Bhawan Watser, Rajwar suddenly […]

JKNPP takes on Guv’s admin, says security of its leaders withdrawn

Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party Tuesday said the Governor administration’s decision to withdraw and downgrade security of its top leaders, including five candidates who are fighting the Lok Sabha polls, was against the democratic norms. The JPNPP alleged that the move has put a break on the free movement of the leaders […]