Hitting out at the opposition for raking up the Balakot air strike and Pulwama terror attack issues, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that "PM Narendra Modi ne ghar mein ghus kar maara hai" and the BJP-led central government has transformed the situation in Kashmir after the abrogation of
"Isn't Pak-occupied Kashmir ours? Mani Shankar Aiyar, Farooq Abdullah used to scare us saying that Pakistan has atom bomb and so we should not speak about Pak-occupied Kashmir. Rahul baba, Mamata didi, no matter how scared you are, Pak-occupied Kashmir is ours and we will take it back," S
Highlighting the protests in the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday, reiterated that "it has been India and will always be," adding that people in PoK must be comparing their situation with those living in Jammu and Kashmir, pointing
The Srinagar constituency, which saw the first general election after the abrogation of Article 370 in J-K, recorded 37.99 per cent voting, according to the Information and PR Department, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. This is the highest voter turnout in several decades.
Through the passage of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 in Parliament, Article 370, which gave special constitutional privileges to the erstwhile state, ceased to exist. Jammu and Kashmir was split and reorganised into two UTs--Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh--in August 2019.
Srinagar voter turnout of 38 per cent in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls is the highest in several decades. It was 14.43 per cent in 2019, 25.86 in 2014, 25.55 in 2009, 18.57 in 2004 and just 11.93 per cent in 1999.
Making a big claim, marking a departure from the official party line, Waheed Ur Rehman Para, the PDP's Lok Sabha candidate from Srinagar, on Monday said violence in the erstwhile state has reduced significantly over the last five years.
Voting for the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency is underway, marking the first parliamentary election in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said that every political party in the country is "committed to ensure that PoK, which is a part of India, returns to India," and that "the PoK issue has come to the front of people's thinking" after revocation of Article 370 in Jammu an
Jana Sena Party (JSP) chief Pawan Kalyan lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the abrogation of Article 370, which gave the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir special status.
Responding to Congress allegations that if the BJP regains power at the Centre it will remove reservation, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been in power for the past 10 years but instead of removing reservation he utilised the majority in th