Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti will contest Lok Sabha polls from the south Kashmir’s Anantnag seat. read more

Shaurya Chakra is usually awarded to armed forces and paramilitary personnel for “gallantry otherwise in the face of the enemy”. read more

Officially, the People’s Democratic Party has only named one candidate—former trade union leader, Abdul Qayoom Wani—from Baramulla seat for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In 2014, the seat was won by PDP candidate Muzuffar Hussain Beigh. read more

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: National Conference vice president and former J-K chief minister Omar Abdullah chose PDP stronghold of south Kashmir to kick-start the mass contact programme as the party organised a rally at Khanabal in Anantnag district of... read more

Almost all political parties in Jammu and Kashmir have criticised the EC’s move of not conducting the assembly polls along with national elections in the state. read more

National Conference is in talks with the Congress for an alliance in Jammu and Kashmir for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. NC’s provincial president Nasir Aslam Wani said the party’s parliamentary board would meet shortly to announce candidates. read more

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The Election Commission will soon announce its schedule for the high-voltage Lok Sabha elections, which is likely to be spread over 7-8 phases in April-May, sources said on Thursday. read more

The governor dissolved the 87-member state assembly on November 21 last year after the Peoples Democratic Party, supported by the Congress and arch-rivals National Conference, tried to stake claim to form the government. read more

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said as the Chief Minister and the Home Minister of the state during the PDP-BJP coalition, she never got any credible intelligence reports about the links of Jamaat workers with the militants. read more

The Election Commission will be in Jammu and Kashmir on March 4-5 to review the ground situation and assess the state’s preparedness for the summer Lok Sabha elections. read more

In the 2014 polls, which Congress and the NC contested jointly, Congress candidates lost from Jammu, Udhampur and Ladakh to BJP while the National Conference lost Anantnag, Baramulla and Srinagar to the PDP. read more

In Jammu, Shah paid tributes to the 40 troopers killed in a suicide attack on February 14 in Pulwama. read more

A leader of former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday wrote to PM Modi seeking the remains of separatist Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) founder, Maqbool Bhat, and 2001 Parliament attack convict, Afzal... read more

Mehbooba Mufti was reacting to Imran Khan’s announcement that he was taking steps to name the wild life reserve after Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism. read more