March 11, 2019 | Kashmir POST

VVPATs at all booths, Candidate photos on EVMs among firsts this election

March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 Editor

Voters in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will find, for the first time, the faces of the candidates along with their respective party symbols in the electronic voting machines (EVMs), the Election Commission (EC) announced here on Sunday as it released the seven-phase schedule of the world’s largest democratic exercise. The commission has introducing a slew of new or improved measures as it aims to make the elections free, fair and transparent – with a dash of eco-friendliness thrown in for good measure. The poll panel announced that for the first time Voter…

World looks away as Kashmiri’s are stuck in the middle of potentially nuclear conflict

March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 Editor

When Adil Dar rammed a car stuffed with explosives into a paramilitary convoy in Indian-administered Kashmir last month, I didn’t make much of the news. I was travelling across northern India at the time. Having been born and brought up amid a conflict that has defined the life of every young Kashmiri for the past three decades it just seemed more of the same: military cordons, gunfights, curfews, blown-up houses, maiming and the death of our friends and acquaintances. But the magnitude of this attack by Dar, a 22-year-old Kashmiri,…