A member of the Village Defence Guard (VDG) was martyred in a clash with four terrorists at Chochru Gala, located in the Basantgarh region of Udhampur district.

SRINAGAR: Mehbooba Mufti, the President of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), declared on Wednesday that the party is set to compete for all Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir. She revealed that the final candidate list will be unveiled in the upcoming days. Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Mehbooba reaffirmed PDP’s determination to contest from […]

Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) has officially announced Mian Altaf Ahmad as its candidate for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency. NC Vice President Omar Abdullah made the declaration on behalf of party president Farooq Abdullah, with Ahmad in attendance. Abdullah praised Ahmad’s inclusive approach, stating, “There can be no better candidate than […]

This announcement was made on Wednesday by Arun Singh, the national general secretary of the BJP, who presented the list of prominent campaigners to Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) J&K PK Pole.

Official sources informed The New Indian that additional CAPFs will be stationed across the entire Kashmir valley and the adjacent border districts of Rajouri and Poonch in the Jammu region.

He will inaugurate the inaugural electric train in the Valley and initiate the train service linking Sangaldan Station and Baramulla Station.

The charges include threatening and criminal fraud, as the executive is accused of clandestinely capturing nude visuals of the personnel and attempting to blackmail the officer using those pictures.

SRINAGAR: In a significant BJP core group meeting in Jammu on January 18, the party aimed to discuss the poll strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections scheduled for April-May this year. The meeting was chaired by UT BJP President Ravinder Raina. Others who attended the meeting included party National General Secretary Tarun Chugh, Union […]

Human suffering and pain defy measurement; tragedies resist quantification. Yet, six years ago, economist Swaminathan Aiyer, renowned for ‘Swaminomics,’ undertook an unusual accounting—comparing two cases of ethnic cleansing: the expulsion of Hindus (Pandits) from Kashmir in 1990 and Muslims from Jammu in 1947. Later, author of ‘Devil’s Advocate’, Karan Thapar echoed similar calculations, both concluding […]

SRINAGAR: The Indian Army is set to initiate ‘Operation Sarvashakti’ to counter Pakistani-sponsored terrorists in the Jammu and Kashmir region. The operation will target terrorists functioning on both sides of the Pir Panjal mountain ranges. Reports indicate that terrorist groups supported by Pakistan have been attempting to revive terrorism in the South of Pir Panjal ranges, […]