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The Latest Breaking News from Jammu and Kashmir

Hope returns to Kashmir after elections, but the ultimate power still belongs to Narendra Modi’s government

This year’s local elections in India’s northernmost territory of Jammu and Kashmir were the first since the national government controversially stripped the region of its semi-autonomous status in 2019. It’s also the first local election in Muslim-majority Kashmir since 2014.

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NC-Cong alliance wins Jammu and Kashmir elections

BJP could win 29 seats while the PDP secured three seats. Seven Independents were also declared winners. Read further on Dynamite News:

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India’s BJP wins Haryana, Kashmir favours Congress alliance: What to know

Congress’ unexpected loss in Haryana and its gains with ally National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir, explained.

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J&K Assembly Polls: Security tightened in Udhampur ahead of counting

Udhampur police tightenend security across Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of counting of votes on October 8. Read further on Dynamite News:

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TV Newsance 268: Israel-Iran tensions, Govinda misfire, Elon-Meloni dating rumours

It was an eventful week in the world of TV news, and Manisha is back to hosting duties after covering the elections in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.

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Modi’s Kashmir statehood promise. Poll rhetoric or genuine outreach?

Modi promises Kashmir statehood amid regional elections, but analysts doubt full autonomy will be restored.

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Jammu and Kashmir local elections: Separatists turn to mainstream politics

Voting continues in India's contested province of Jammu and Kashmir, with the second phase of the election to renew the 90 seats of the legislature. This is the first vote since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government revoked the region's semi-autonomous status which guaranteed its own flag, constitution and statehood; downgrading…

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2 killed, 1 injured after poll duty vehicle met with accident in Reasi

Two people were killed and one was injured after a poll duty vehicle met with an accident near Tuksan in the Gulabgarh area of Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district on Tuesday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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In Jammu and Kashmir, a high-stakes election for a low-power assembly

In one sense, not much is at stake in the ongoing election to the legislative assembly of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

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"LG is outsider, cannot do what is in hearts of people of J-K": Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi asserted that the democratic rights of the Jammu and Kashmir people have been snatched. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Kashmir holds first regional election since India scrapped its special status

India this week kicked off Jammu and Kashmir's first legislative elections in 10 years, with high turnout reported. It is the first time the disputed Himalayan territory has voted since India revoked its autonomous status five years ago, a change residents want to see reversed.

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‘Our future generations will also vote for BJP’: Muslims in Poonch-Rajouri amid political shift

In the election campaign for the second phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, scheduled for September 25, the issues of inflation, unemployment, and development are dominating the discourse.

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‘BJP opened a new front of terrorism in Jammu’: Omar Abdullah on shift in J&K politics, polls

Omar Abdullah, chairperson of the National Conference, has served as the youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and even Union minister. In the recent Lok Sabha polls, Abdullah conceded defeat in the Baramulla constituency in North Kashmir against independent candidate Engineer Rashid. Now his party is in the fray…

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‘Things have deteriorated’: Kashmiri youth on political stability, jobs, Article 370

In the decade since the last assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the region’s political landscape has undergone a major shift – marked by the abrogation of Article 370, the bifurcation of Ladakh and JK, extensive lockdown, the house arrest of its heavyweight leaders, and the emergence of a new…

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Statehood, right to vote snatched; today time to change this: Priyanka

"Your every vote will strengthen Jammu and Kashmir and your rights. Use your right to vote in maximum numbers and make India win with a huge majority," Priyanka Gandhi said in a post on X.

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"BJP ended democracy in J&K, running Governor rule," says Sanjay Singh

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh on Monday reached Jammu and Kashmir to campaign for his party. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Intrigue and independents: All the possibilities that might unfold in Jammu and Kashmir

In the 2014 assembly elections, when Jammu and Kashmir was still a state, the Bharatiya Janata Party got its highest tally of 25 out of 37 assembly seats. In 2019, the region lost its autonomy and was cleaved into two demoted union territories (Ladakh not having an elected assembly).

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Engineer Rashid: Kashmir’s new leader or BJP’s new ‘pawn’?

Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has been the talk of the town ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. The Kashmiri politician, in jail for over five years in a terror funding case, won the Baramulla seat in the Lok Sabha polls with a big margin…

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Violence, economic distress, detained kin: Do Kashmir’s women feel sidelined again this election?

The assembly elections have brought political excitement back to Jammu and Kashmir.

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TV Newsance Rewind: Jammu and Kashmir, Article 370, and the media circus

In this special episode of Newsance, we look back at the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 and the stark difference between the media spectacle and the reality on ground zero. Jammu and Kashmir is headed for an assembly poll for the first time since the abrogation.

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Exclusive: Iltija Mufti on the struggles of politics, identity and youth in Kashmir

Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande sits down with Iltija Mufti, PDP’s candidate from Bijbehara, ahead of the first Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections in 10 years.

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From ‘separatism’ to democratic politics: Talat Majeed on constitution, contest from Pulwama

In the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, set to take place after a 10-year hiatus, the political temperature has intensified with the entry of several local leaders previously accused of separatist leanings. Besides the candidates from mainstream parties like the National Conference and PDP, the polls will see Sheikh…

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J&K: BJP trying to intimidate Hindu voters, alleges Farooq Abdullah

Farooq said that "BJP is trying to defame NC, but we will emerge victorious in the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and change the lives of the people". Read further on Dynamite News:

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J&K Polls: Security tightened; Cameras fixed at all booths in Doda

Polling in Jammu and Kashmir will be conducted in three phases on September 18, 25, and October 1 and results for which will be declared on October 8. Read further on Dynamite News:

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J&K Polls: After Ganderbal, Omar Abdullah files nomination from Budgam

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Thursday filed his second nomination from the Budgam seat for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls. Read further on Dynamite News:

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