Year: 2024

BJP Manipulates Released Inmates for Election Advantage: Farooq Abdullah

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BJP Manipulates Released Inmates for Election Advantage: Farooq Abdullah

Srinagar, Sep 11: National Conference (NC) President Farooq Abdullah Wednesday said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir should unite to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and those who are “being released from jails” to take part in elections. Addressing an election rally, he said the alliance with the Congress was not easy but was necessary to save J&K’s identity, and raised the issue of “outsiders” being appointed in the administration. “This is not the time to sleep. I know the (agricultural) crops are ready (for harvest) but you will…

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Security Threat: Intelligence Agencies Warn of Potential Attacks on Forces, Political Leaders Ahead of J&K Elections

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Security Threat: Intelligence Agencies Warn of Potential Attacks on Forces, Political Leaders Ahead of J&K Elections

The warning came as two terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kathua district on Wednesday. Central intelligence agencies have warned against possible terror attacks on security forces, road opening parties (ROPs), political leaders and party workers and non-locals in Jammu & Kashmir, in a bid to disrupt the upcoming assembly elections in the Union territory, officials aware of the details said on Wednesday. “Three unidentified terrorists were recently spotted in the orchards of Mughal Pora village in Baramulla district. We have received inputs that they have…

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Engineer Rashid Targets Omar: ‘My Battle is for the People, Not the Chair’

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Engineer Rashid Targets Omar: ‘My Battle is for the People, Not the Chair’

Baramulla MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, walked out of Tihar jail a day after he was granted interim bail by a Delhi court to campaign for the J&K assembly elections, even as his plea for regular bail was on Wednesday deferred to Oct 5. Rashid, who heads the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP), has been in prison since 2019 under UAPA in a 2017 terror funding case. The court of additional sessions judge Chander Jit Singh had granted interim bail to Rashid on several conditions, which included…

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Kharge Promises Bicameral Legislature for J&K Post-Statehood Restoration

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Kharge Promises Bicameral Legislature for J&K Post-Statehood Restoration

‘The Congress will ensure that J&K gets Statehood again and will establish an Upper House and a Lower House,” the party’s president said at a poll rally in Anantnag Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who announced “five guarantees” during an election rally in south Kashmir’s Anantnag, on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) said his party “will not only strive for J&K’s Statehood but also restore bi-cameral House system” as it existed before the Centre ended the erstwhile State’s special constitutional position in 2019. “The Congress will ensure that J&K gets Statehood again…

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Gunfight Breaks Out in Udhampur, 4 Jaish-e-Mohammed Militants Cornered

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Gunfight Breaks Out in Udhampur, 4 Jaish-e-Mohammed Militants Cornered

Gunfight erupts in J&K’s Udhampur, 4 Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists trapped. A gunfight broke out between security forces and terrorists on Wednesday in the Basantgarh area of Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir. Four heavily armed terrorists from the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) group have been trapped in the area, according to people aware of the matter. Jaish-e-Mohammed, a proscribed terrorist organization, has been responsible for several deadly attacks in India, including the 2019 Pulwama bombing. More details awaited.    

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Addiction Crisis in Kashmir: The Growing Threat of Heroin and Synthetic Opioids

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Addiction Crisis in Kashmir: The Growing Threat of Heroin and Synthetic Opioids

The Rising Drug Addiction Crisis in Jammu & Kashmir: An In-Depth Analysis By: Javid Amin The drug addiction crisis in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has reached alarming levels over the past four years. Law enforcement data reveals a dramatic increase in drug-related offenses, with over 6,564 cases registered and more than 9,400 individuals arrested in connection to narcotics abuse and trafficking. The most disturbing aspect of this crisis is the growing prevalence of heroin, along with synthetic opioids such as Tapentadol, which are fueling a dangerous epidemic in the region.…

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Engineer Rashid Granted Interim Bail: Free to Campaign Till October 2

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Engineer Rashid Granted Interim Bail: Free to Campaign Till October 2

New Delhi, Sep 10: A Delhi Court Tuesday granted interim bail till October 2 to Member of Parliament Engineer Rashid in a terror funding case. Rashid defeated former chief minister Omar Abdullah in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Baramulla. Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh granted the relief to Rashid, who had moved the court seeking interim bail to campaign in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. “I am granting interim bail till October 2. He will have to surrender on October 3,” the judge said. The judge granted…

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Rebellion in Ranks: BJP’s Sharma and Khajuria to Contest Independently

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Rebellion in Ranks: BJP’s Sharma and Khajuria to Contest Independently

BJP rebel Chander Mohan Sharma, who resigned from the party recently, today filed his nomination as an Independent from the Jammu East constituency. In a related development, another BJP dissident Pawan Khajuria announced to contest as an Independent from the Udhampur East constituency. It is pertinent to mention that Sharma had worked for the saffron party for decades while Khajuria is the vice-president of the UT unit of the BJP. On Monday, Khajuria had said he might throw his hat in the poll ring after the party decided to field…

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Controversy Erupts: Mehbooba, Omar Question Engineer Rashid’s Bail Timing

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Controversy Erupts: Mehbooba, Omar Question Engineer Rashid’s Bail Timing

Sheikh Rashid has decided to field candidates in the strongholds of the Muftis and the Abdullahs in south and north Kashmir respectively The release of jailed Member of Parliament (MP) Sheikh Rashid, widely known as Engineer Rashid, on Tuesday (September 10, 2024) left two main regional parties, the National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), jittery in the wake of Mr. Rashid’s decision to field candidates in strongholds of the Muftis and the Abdullahs in south and north Kashmir respectively. NC vice-president, who is contesting from central Kashmir’s…

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Ram Madhav’s Comeback: Rekindling Ties with PDP, Says Altaf Bukhari

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Ram Madhav’s Comeback: Rekindling Ties with PDP, Says Altaf Bukhari

Srinagar, Sep 10 : Jammu and Kashmir’s Apni Party president Syed Muhammad Altaf Bukhari today stirred a hornet’s nest by stating that it seems that the BJP’s point-man Ram Madhav was brought back to Kashmir to revive old bonds with the PDP. Talking to reporters during his maiden visit to Bagh-e-Mehtab area of newly carved Chanapora constituency, Bukhari said he wonders as to why there was no Awami Itehad Party (AIP) candidate in Bijbehara, where PDP President Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter Iltija Mufti is contesting. “It looks as if Ram Madhav…

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