India, Kashmir
Many in Indian-controlled Kashmir plan to vote this time to deny Modi total control
The vote is the first in a decade, and the first since Modi’s Hindu nationalist government in 2019 scrapped the region’s special status and downgraded the former state to a federally governed territory.
India's Jammu and Kashmir votes in first regional poll in a decade
Voters queued outside polling stations in India's Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to vote in the first provincial election being held in a decade in the Himalayan region that has grappled with years of militant violence.
Kashmir is holding its first state elections since India brought it under direct rule
Residents of India-administered Kashmir begin voting in the first regional elections in a decade. It comes years after India's government stripped away the territory’s statehood.
Historic Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir
Election Commission of India on Aug 16, 2024, announced three phased assembly elections from Sept 18 to Oct 1, 2024, in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) as ordered by the apex court of India. 87.09 lakh total electors in J&K’s 90 Assembly constituencies will participate in these elections.
Voters in Indian-controlled Kashmir choose local government for first time since losing autonomy
Security was tight on Wednesday as a phased election for choosing a local government in Indian-controlled Kashmir opened in the first such vote since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped the disputed region of its special status five years ago.
Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024 Voting Underway As Phase One Begins
The Election Commission of India reported a 26.72 percent voter turnout in the first four hours of polling for the 24 assembly seats in phase 1 of the Jammu and Kashmir elections, with Inderwal in Jammu recording the highest turnout at 40.
Indian-administered Kashmir goes to first regional elections in a decade
Voting for the regional elections in India-administered Jammu and Kashmir began on Wednesday, the first time in a decade. Turnout was 41 per cent in the morning of the first round of the three-phase polls,
Kashmir Life2d
Video: The Silk Route Tales: Kashmir Life’s Epic Journey Unfolds on Treat High Road
A curtain raiser for Kashmir Life's Humaira Nabi directed 15-spiosde show Kashmir: The Silk Route Tales presented by Iqra Akhoon.
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Intrigue and independents: All the possibilities that might unfold in Jammu and Kashmir
But it may face the disappointment of the electorate in the Hindu heartland owing to the adverse economic fallout of the ...
In India's Kashmir, former separatists take struggle to the ballot box
When former Kashmiri independence advocate Hafiz Mohammad Sikander Malik filed nomination papers for the Jammu and Kashmir's ...
ThePrint3d
PoJK activists criticises Pakistan’s suppression of dissent in occupied region
Political activists from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, under the aegis of the United Kashmir’s People’s National Party ...
Deccan Herald19h
Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024 | How to register as an NRI voter?
These elections are significant as they are the first since 2014 and since the removal of Article 370 in August 2019, which ...
Greater economic opportunities, 'Naya' hopes, in 'Naya' Kashmir
Five years after the abrogation of Art 370 in J&K, concerted measures have not only stabilised but boosted the economy of the ...
Daily Excelsior5d
Dismal state of affairs in J&K, region grappling with unemployment: Supriya
Congress today highlighted the dismal state of affairs in Jammu and Kashmir and promised return of Statehood to the region in ...