Addressing the audience, Minister Puri stated, "Bharat can not be 'Viksit' without 'Viksit Kashmir'. Prime Minister said that it is his dream that India should be or will be a 'Viksit Desh' or a 'developed nation' by 2047."
Reacting to the opposition's claims of the BJP getting extra votes in mock polls in Kasaragod, Kerala Chief Electoral Officer, Sanjay Kaul said that the EVM is a tested machine.
Anantnag Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer Syeed Fakhrudin Hamid announced that 25 candidates submitted nomination papers for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat in Jammu and Kashmir.
"Rahul Baba, five years have passed (since the abrogation of Article 370). This is the government of (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi. Leave alone the talk of the bloodbath. No one has the guts to throw a stone there," Shah said while addressing a gathering.
Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party President and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday released the party's manifesto "Apna Vote, Apno Kay Liye" for the Lok Sabha elections and vowed to empower women and youth.
Acting tough against the violation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) guidelines, a government employee on Thursday was placed under suspension by the authorities in Srinagar.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter scale struck Jammu Kashmir's Kishtwar region on Thursday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) informed.