The National Conference (NC) emerged as the single-largest party in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls held in September and October. The NC won 42 out of the 90 seats. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with 29 seats is the second-largest party.
The newly elected members of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly were administered oath on Monday by pro-tem speaker Mubarak Gul.
A doctor and five labourers were killed when terrorists attacked a tunnel construction site on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in the Ganderbal district on Sunday.
A doctor and six labourers were killed when terrorists attacked a tunnel construction site on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in the Ganderbal district on Sunday. The unidentified attackers struck as the labourers and other staff returned to their camp in Gund, Ganderbal, late in the evening.
Security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to track down terrorists in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir. The armed forces were put on alert after a terror attack at a tunnel construction site on the Srinagar-Leh national highway in Ganderbal district.
A terrorist attack near the Z-mode tunnel campsite in Gagangeer, Kashmir, resulted in the deaths of six non-local labourers and a doctor, with four others injured; police are investigating the incident.
As per the information, the arrested individuals were involved in a range of terror-related crimes, including grenade attacks on religious sites and hospitals, terror financing, anti-national propaganda, and arms smuggling.
Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections were held for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370 and a new government has been formed. With the political situation evolving, local leaders are now raising demands for full statehood to be restored.
This is the same area where one soldier was injured and his brother was killed by terrorists earlier this year.
In a historic judgment last year, the Supreme Court upheld the abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and stated that statehood should be restored to J-K "at the earliest".
Nasir Aslam Wani was appointed as an advisor to J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah after he took oath as Chief Minister of the Union Territory. Abdullah formed the government after a landslide victory in the recent Assembly elections backed by the NC-Congress alliance and the I.N.D.I.A bloc.
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah took oath as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, heading the first elected government in the Union territory since 2019 when Article 370 was abrogated.
As Jammu and Kashmir turned another page in its troubled history, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha administered the oath of office and secrecy to Abdullah and five ministers, including Surinder Choudhary.
Omar Abdullah was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. Along with him, five other candidates took oath as Cabinet Ministers. While four of them are NC candidates, Satish Sharma is an independent MLA.
Omar Abdullah takes oath as Jammu and Kashmir CM: Five ministers — Sakina Masood (Itoo), Javed Ahmad Dar, Javed Ahmed Rana, Surinder Choudhary, and Satish Sharma — also took the oath of office.
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Omar Abdullah was unanimously elected the leader of the NC Legislature Party after his party won 42 out of the 90 seats, setting the stage for his second term as chief minister.
A Delhi court will deliver its verdict today on Engineer Rashid’s regular bail plea in the 2017 terror funding case. Rashid, an MP from Baramulla, sought release after being in custody since 2019 under the NIA’s investigation.
Omar Abdullah was elected as the leader of the National Conference legislature party after a resounding victory of the party in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections.
After the crushing defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, the party’s disappointing performance in the Assembly polls has further deepened tensions within Congress, with state leaders reportedly attributing the failure to the alliance with the National Conference (NC).
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