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 Press Trust of India

Faith reposed by people in NDA is humbling: Modi

New Delhi: With the BJP headed for a landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India has won again and together with everyone, a strong and inclusive nation will be built. Riding on a massive Modi wave sweeping through most parts of India, the BJP was set to […]

 Press Trust of India

Humiliating loss for Mehbooba as NC, BJP take control

Humiliating loss for Mehbooba as NC, BJP take control

Srinagar/Jammu: The BJP is set to retain its three Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, with PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti suffering a humiliating loss in her hitherto south Kashmir bastion. National Conference president Farooq Abdullah and Union Minister Jitendra Singh were among the prominent faces to make it to the 17th Lok Sabha. The […]

 KV News

AGH Chief Zakir Musa killed

AGH Chief Zakir Musa killed

Srinagar: Valley’s most wanted militant commander, Zakir Musa, who headed the Al Qaeda affiliate Ansar Gazwatul Hind, was killed on Thursday by security forces in south and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. Informed sources said the security forces started a cordon and search operation in Dadsara village of Tral area following information about the presence of two […]

 KV News

Schools, colleges to remain shut

Srinagar: Authorities on Thursday said that class work in all schools and colleges in Kashmir will remain suspended on Friday in view of the encounter between militants and security forces at Dadsara in Tral. Divisional Commissioner Kashmir Baseer Ahmad Khan said that class work in all schools and colleges will remained suspended in Kashmir. The […]

 Press Trust of India

India rejects any alternative to BJP, NDA: Omar

India rejects any alternative to BJP, NDA: Omar

Srinagar: National Conference (NC) vice-president Omar Abdullah Thursday said the country has rejected an alternative to the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “second term” is not a “fluke”. A vocal critic of Modi-led NDA government, Abdullah also requested the BJP leader to “take everyone along” in the coming five years as “this country belongs […]

 KV News

Militants hurl grenade at CRPF bunker

Srinagar: Suspected militants Thursday lobbed a grenade at a CRPF bunker here, but there was no loss of life or property as it missed the target, police said. Militants hurled a grenade at a CRPF bunker at Tagore Hall, but it missed the target and exploded on the road, a police official said. The CRPF […]

 Jahangeer Ganaie

Youth’s body found in Pulwama village, locals stage protest

Pulwama: A Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militant’s brother was found dead on Thursday morning at Naira village of Pulwama and his bullet ridden body was retrieved from a local girls higher secondary school. The deceased was identified as Zahoor Ahmad Sheikh brother of active HM militant Irfan Ahmad Sheikh. Villagers from Naira said that they heard […]

 Press Trust of India

Pak PM Imran Khan congratulates Modi

Pak PM Imran Khan congratulates Modi

Expresses desire to work with him for peace in South Asia

Expresses desire to work with him for peace in South Asia

 Press Trust of India

BJP’s election victory makes headlines in Pakistan

Islamabad: The BJP’s resounding victory in India’s elections made headlines in Pakistan on Thursday, with the media providing comprehensive coverage of the results of the polls in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi harped on national security issues, including the Balakot strikes. 7 The results of India’s general elections are very significant for Pakistan as the […]

 Press Trust of India

Counting for high-stakes Lok Sabha polls begins today

Counting for high-stakes Lok Sabha polls begins today

New Delhi: The counting of votes for the seven-phase elections to India’s lower house of parliament, the world’s biggest democratic exercise, will take place on Thursday, bringing the curtains down on a bitterly-fought contest which the country rarely witnessed. Most of the exit polls have predicted that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance […]