The Latest Breaking News from JK

A week after the Red Fort car blast, investigators are still piecing together an alleged white-collar terror module – one that has revived fears of “home-grown” radicalisation after years of security focus on Pakistan-based jihadi tanzeems. With several doctors among those arrested, some linked to Faridabad’s Al Falah University, the…

The story of the death of the free press in Kashmir has been extensively reported on by Newslaundry. One major tool of control? Government advertising. But for the first time, we now have a clearer sense of the money being spent.

An uproar erupted in the Assembly when PDP leader Waheed Para introduced a resolution against the revocation of Article 370 and to restore the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Read further on Dynamite News:

Omar Abdullah on Monday received a letter from Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, inviting him to form the next government in the union territory.

Whenever the outcome of an election is declared, there’s always the risk of reading too much between the lines, of overdoing the drill of identifying takeaways. But with the recent assembly polls in Haryana, it can safely be said that the face-off between the two national parties, especially following the…

Contrary to exit polls, the BJP retained power in Haryana while the National Conference and Congress managed to get a clear majority in Jammu and Kashmir. A resurgent Congress was projected to win more seats, but it was the BJP which received a boost just months after its poor show…

The exit polls were wildly off the mark once again.

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…

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…