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HP assembly adopts resolution to legalise cannabis cultivation

Dharamshala, Sept. 7 -- The state assembly on Friday passed a resolution to legalise cannabis cultivation after going through a special committee report that recommended allowing the controlled cultiv... Read More


Ex-deputy CM Baig to contest as Independent

Srinagar, Sept. 7 -- Former deputy chief minister Muzzaffar Hassain Baig will contest assembly elections from Baramulla constituency as an independent candidate. Baig, who has represented Baramulla a... Read More


Mirwaiz put under house arrest ahead of polls

Srinagar, Sept. 7 -- Separatist and Jamia Masjid chief priest Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was on Friday in the lead-up to assembly polls placed under house arrest and not allowed to deliver his sermon on Frid... Read More


Jailed cleric now in fray from Ganderbal, Omar cries foul

Srinagar, Sept. 7 -- A week after his nomination from Zainapora seat of south Kashmir was rejected over missing documents, jailed separatist cleric Sarjan Barkati jumped in the race from Ganderbal. Hi... Read More


Sajad Lone to contest from Handwara and Kupwara

Srinagar, Sept. 7 -- People's Conference (PC) chairperson Sajjad Gani Lone will contest the assembly polls from the two seats in north Kashmir's Kupwara district. PC on Wednesday issued the third lis... Read More


Art 370 now history, will never come back: Shah

Jammu, Sept. 7 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday said Article 370 and 35-A were a thing of the past and would never come back before urging the people of Jammu and Kashmir not to fall prey to... Read More


Iltija guards family bastion against NC in electoral debut

Srinagar, Sept. 7 -- Iltija Mufti, 36, is fighting her first political battle in her family's home turf of Bijbehara, also known as Bijbehara-Srigufwara constituency, and it isn't an easy one -- she i... Read More


J&K elections: CEntre deploys Paramilitary contingents

Jammu, Sept. 6 -- The Union government has mobilised paramilitary forces ahead of the first assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir in a decade, especially against the backdrop of a spurt in terror at... Read More


Fewer seats, 'friendly' independents: BJP reworks its Kashmir strategy

Srinagar, Sept. 6 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been working in Kashmir for the past decade, has marked a significant shift in new strategy by focusing on fewer more winnable seats. ... Read More


Raina files nomination papers from Nowshera, 3-way fight in Vaishno Devi

Jammu, Sept. 6 -- Bharatiya Janata Party's local unit chief Ravinder Raina and on Thursday, filed his nomination papers from the Nowshera assembly constituency in Rajouri. The newly carved out seat of... Read More