Shujaat Bukhari

A triangular battle among the People’s Conference, the National Conference and the PDP for Baramulla-Kupwara seat

Photo: Nissar Ahmad

Garnering support: A woman hugs Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference chairman Sajjad Lone during his door-to-door campaigning in Kupwara on Saturday.
BARAMULLA: After a mixed response to voting in South and Central Kashmir, the focus […]

Shujaat Bukhari

“A vote for NC will be a vote for Manmohan Singh and UPA”

ANANTNAG (J&K): AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday extended a hand of friendship to Kashmiri youth and said he along with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of the National Conference would make the State peaceful and prosperous. Addressing an election rally […]

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Mirwaiz announces decision after two days of discussions

Mirwaiz plans door to door campaign to explain his stand
Says elections in the presence of 7 lakh troops is itself a dispute

SRINAGAR: The Hurriyat Conference led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday came out with a call to the people not to take part in the […]

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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has announced re-poll on April 28 in 58 polling stations in Jharkhand, where election was disrupted during Phase I on April 16. Similarly, re-poll in 146 booths in Bihar will be held. The date will be announced later.
The commission has cancelled the Assembly by-election in Hazratbal, under the Srinagar […]

NEW DELHI: Former cricketer Madan Lal joined the Congress on Saturday and would be the party’s candidate from Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh, party general secretary Janardan Dwivedi said.
Mr. Lal is being fielded against Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister P. K. Dhumal’s son, Anurag Thakur of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Mr. Dwivedi said Mr. Lal was consistent in […]

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SRINAGAR: The Opposition People’s Democratic Party will fight the Lok Sabha polls on its own in all six constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir. “We have our own agenda of political resolution of Kashmir and that doesn’t suit any party,” the former Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, said here on Thursday.
Calling for efforts to ensure […]