Tag: J&K

Last Updated: April 19, 2024, 14:06 ISTGroom arrives at polling station to cast vote in phase 1 of Lok Sabha polls. (Image: News18)A groom decked up in sherwani was among the first to cast his vote for the phase of the crucial Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and KashmirAs ...

JAMMU/DEHRADUN: Union home minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that BJP's lotus would bloom in J&K "on its own" as the Narendra Modi govt had earned people's love and faith by restoring peace in the UT and initiating the development it sorely lacked for decades. Later in Uttarakhand, he ...

NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir's DGP hailed a probationary police sub-inspector (SI) Deepak Sharma's courage, who succumbed to his injuries after suffering head injuries while encountering a gangster in Jammu and Kashmir, and said that the sacrifice of his will forever be remembered by the nation and people of ...

The ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday declared that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA-2019) will be repealed if the INDIA bloc formed the next Government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha polls. Stalin promises repeal of CAAReleasing the party’s list of 21 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls ...

Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan, who served five years in prison, was allegedly rearrested in a (separate) 2019 case – just four hours after he was released from Ambedkar Nagar district jail in Uttar Pradesh in a militancy-related case and returned to his home in Srinagar. Sultan’s incarceration has been one ...

India’s longest transportation railway tunnel is now open! Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the longest transportation tunnel in the country, as he launched the first electrified trains in the Kashmir valley on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL). Additionally, he also unveiled the 48.1-km-long Banihal-Khari-Sumber-Sangaldan section.As per the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Jammu on Tuesday to launch multiple development projects, including for education, railway, aviation, and road sectors, worth over Rs 32,000 crore.According to the Prime Minister's Office, the projects relate to several sectors, including health, education, rail, road, aviation, petroleum, and civic infrastructure, among ...

With the tenure of panchayats in Jammu and Kashmir coming to an end earlier this month, and no announcement on fresh elections, sarpanches of several villages have raised concerns on the “vacuum” that could be created by a lack of local elected leadership that residents find approachable.Calling for panchayat ...

Recognising that he was arriving at the twilight of his political career and worse, anchored on a weaker footing, Abdullah decided to sign a capitulatory deal with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975. He dissolved the Plebiscite Front and revived the NC, paving the way for him to ...

Reported By: Ankur SharmaLast Updated: January 25, 2024, 12:03 ISTHead Constables Shishupal Singh and Sanwala Ram Vishnoi were deployed with UN Peace Keeping Contingent in Democratic Republic of Congo. (Image: X/@BSF_India)On January 26, a total of 1,132 personnel of Police, Fire Service, Home Guard and Civil Defence and Correctional ...