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Man's body fished out of stream in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam, probe on

J&K social welfare minister and National Conference (NC) leader Sakina Itoo demanded a judicial probe into the man's death.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti called for an impartial investigation into the death of the youngster in Kulgam. (Representational image )

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Updated on May 05, 2025 08:00 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Pahalgam terror attack: J&K political parties call for shutdown today

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti called for a complete "Kashmir bandh" and said that it was time to unite against the massacre of innocents.

The attack in J&K's Pahalgam reportedly claimed the lives of 26 people, mostly tourists. (HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 23, 2025 04:55 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

JK: MLAs exchange blows on last day of budget session

Security personnel had to intervene to prevent a physical clash between Malik and PDP workers; Malik slammed the security wing for allowing PDP members into the premises and demanded the arrest of those who allegedly tried to assault him

Legislators locked in scuffle inside the House during the budget session in Jammu on Wednesday. (PTI)

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Published on Apr 10, 2025 05:46 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Jammu

JK: PDP ‘ruined’ region by forming alliance with BJP, says Omar

Abdullah was referring to a recent controversy over a photograph of him with Union Minister Kiren Rijiju at the Tulip Garden in Srinagar; the chief minister said he had taken his father to the garden when the minister happened to be there

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah speaks to the media in Jammu on Wednesday. (ANI)

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Published on Apr 10, 2025 05:18 AM IST

ByRavi Krishnan Khajuria, Mir Ehsan, Jammu

Sajad Lone attacks NC, says demand for Waqf Act discussion ‘reeks of theatre’

Following chaos in the J&K Assembly over the demand to discuss the Waqf law, PDP MLA Waheed Para was marshalled out.

Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir People's Conference MLA Sajad Gani Lone speaks during the Budget session of J&K Assembly, in Jammu, Wednesday, March 18, 2025. (PTI)

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Published on Apr 08, 2025 12:59 PM IST

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Two former PDP leaders rejoin party in Mehbooba’s presence

Mansoor Hussain Suharwardy and Yasir Reshi joined the PDP after around four years after quitting the party

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Published on Mar 17, 2025 07:14 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

J&K: Why no mention of Article 370, asks Opposition

Resolution with regard to restoration of J&K’s statehood was passed in the first session of assembly last year and it stills stands, says chief minister Omar Abdullah

Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti addresses a press conference in Srinagar on Monday. (PTI)

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Published on Mar 04, 2025 07:50 AM IST

ByMir Ehsan, Srinagar

Mehbooba Mufti's daughter calls Hindutva 'illness'; BJP objects

Iltija Mufti said that Hindutva and Hinduism are different, as the former wants to spread the hegemony of Hindus.

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Updated on Dec 08, 2024 09:27 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

For whom satellite colonies are being made, PDP asks NC

Addressing a press conference, PDP chief spokesman and former MP Mehboob Baig said that recently the J&K Housing Board had issued a notification for construction of satellite townships on both sides of ring road which starts from Galendar, Pampore, on the national highway.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has questioned the construction of satellite townships on both sides of the new ring road near Galandar, Pampore, on the Srinagar Jammu national highway. (HT File/ Representational image)

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Updated on Dec 06, 2024 08:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

PDP, Hurriyat condemns ‘torture’ of civilians in Kishtwar army camp

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti in a statement said that they have information that the victims sustained serious injuries and were unable to walk and required assistance to reach a hospital for medical attention

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Updated on Nov 23, 2024 07:32 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

PDP selects Waheed Parra as legislative party leader

Assembly member Tral Rafiq Ahmed Naik was appointed deputy leader and Kupwara MLA Mir Mohammad Fayaz as the chief whip

The meeting was chaired by party president Mehbooba Mufti and attended by senior leaders. (HT File)

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Updated on Nov 15, 2024 08:28 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

After poor show in J&K polls, Mehbooba dissolves PDP structure

The decision to disband organisational bodies of the party was taken after senior PDP leaders, newly elected assembly members and contesting candidates of the assembly elections met in Srinagar

The meeting to review the loss in polls was chaired by the party president Mehbooba Mufti in Srinagar on Thursday. (HT File)

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Updated on Oct 27, 2024 05:00 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Jammu and Kashmir election: How parties fared on vote share?

The winning National Conference-Congress alliance secured over 35% of the votes.

Supporters of Congress and National Conference (NC) celebrate as the Congress-NC alliance leads during the counting of votes of Jammu & Kashmir Assembly elections in Srinagar on October 8. (PTI)

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Updated on Oct 08, 2024 06:40 PM IST

ByHT News Desk, New Delhi

PDP suffers worst electoral result since its formation 25 years back

The party, which formed its first government in 2002 just three years after former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed formed it, faces a second successive electoral rout

The PDP headquarters on the day of election results on Tuesday. (PTI)

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Published on Oct 08, 2024 01:39 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Will take PDP’s support even if they do not need it: Farooq Abdullah

While the exit polls have projected the NC-Congress combine to win 35 to 45 seats, there is a possibility of a hung House

Former J&K president Farooq Abdullah (File)

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Updated on Oct 08, 2024 07:50 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Farooq Abdullah's big message to Mehbooba: 'Will accept support even if...'

Jammu and Kashmir election results: The former chief minister said all parties need to be together to save Jammu and Kashmir.

National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said that it is a “great thing” that People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is ready to join them. (ANI File)

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Published on Oct 07, 2024 01:46 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

‘Back channel talks’ in J&K? Farooq Abdullah's NC responds to govt formation

Former Srinagar mayor Junaid Azim Mattu claims that NC president Farooq Abdullah met BJP representatives in Pahalgam twice ahead of the poll results.

JKNC president Farooq Abdullah (right) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. ((PTI File Photo))

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Updated on Oct 04, 2024 02:00 PM IST

BySohil Sehran

Hassan Nasrallah's death: Mehbooba Mufti suspends poll campaign

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti cancelled her election campaign in solidarity with Lebanon after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed by an Israeli strike

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti cancelled her poll campaign in Jammu and Kashmir in solidarity with the people of Lebanon (PTI Photo)(PTI)

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Updated on Sep 29, 2024 11:53 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

‘Rahul talks about Mohabbat ki Dukaan, issues Aatank Ka Farman’: Shah in J&K

J&K elections: Amit Shah said PM Modi eradicated terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir, and replaced stones in the hands of the youth with laptops.

Union home minister Amit Shah acknowledges supporters at an election rally in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Published on Sep 21, 2024 09:29 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Modi attacks '3 families' in Srinagar: ‘They put stones in hands of youths’

Jammu and Kashmir elections: PM Narendra Modi said the three families think that it is their birthright to capture power by any means.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a rally at Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium (Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Times)

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Updated on Sep 19, 2024 02:38 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Upbeat NC looks to breach PDP’s south Kashmir fortress

The party, which had won 11 of the belt’s 16 assembly seats, in the last assembly elections faces a stiff challenge in the stronghold, with the National Conference (NC) looking to make inroads.

Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti (C) arrives to cast her ballot at a polling station during the first phase of assembly elections in Bijbehara on September 18, 2024. Indian-administered Kashmir voted on September 18 in the first local elections since the cancellation of its special semi-autonomous status sparked fury in the troubled Himalayan territory, which is also claimed by Pakistan. (AFP)

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Updated on Sep 19, 2024 05:08 AM IST

ByMir Ehsan, Shopian

J&K elections Phase 1: BJP vs Cong-NC fight on 24 seats, PDP, Rashid too in fray

Jammu and Kashmir elections: J&K is witnessing the first assembly election since the abrogation of Article 370.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah and People's Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti.

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Updated on Sep 17, 2024 10:57 PM IST

ByHT News Desk | Edited by Aryan Prakash

Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls phase 1: Key constituencies, candidates

Voting in Phase 1 of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections are set to take place on September 18 across 24 constituencies

Jammu and Kashmir readies itself for its first assembly elections in 10 yeats (PTI Photo)(PTI)

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Published on Sep 17, 2024 07:35 PM IST

ByHT News Desk

Contesting polls to stop BJP from burying issue on Kashmir and Article 370: Mehbooba Mufti

The People’s Democratic Party’s chief said that if elected to power the party will first undertake a fast-track recruitment for about one lakh government jobs in a transparent manner.

Mehbooba Mufti said that people want a government which can address their concerns and end their difficulties. (HT File)

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Updated on Sep 16, 2024 05:32 AM IST

ByPress Trust of India, Kulgam

Jammu: Mehbooba Mufti has brought destruction to J&K: Abdullah

The former chief minister questioned what was the compulsion of the People’s Democratic Party to form an alliance with the BJP in 2015?

National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah said Mehbooba Mufti should give an account of 2016 before pointing fingers at him. (HT File)

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Updated on Sep 16, 2024 05:20 AM IST

ByPress Trust of India, Srinagar

Independents are not ‘real’ Jamaat: Mehbooba Mufti to voters ahead of J&K polls

Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti accuses Centre of trying to create factions within Jamaat by not lifting the ban on it

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti greets her supporters during an election campaign rally in Pulwama. (AFP)

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Updated on Sep 11, 2024 07:18 AM IST

ByMir Ehsan, Babgam (pulwama)

Madhav close to PDP, perhaps brought back for BJP-PDP alliance: Omar

Omar said that Madhav was not close to any other political party (in J&K) other than PDP, when asked whether Malik’s assertions that Madhav’s J&K appearance was for an alliance with PDP.

National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on Monday appeared to agree with the assertions of former J&K governor Satya Pal Malik that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appointed Ram Madhav for J&K’s election campaign to stitch a post-poll alliance with People’s Democratic Party (PDP). (ANI File)

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Updated on Sep 03, 2024 09:06 AM IST

ByAshiq Hussain, Srinagar

Ex-PDP chief spokesperson Suhail Bukhari joins Congress

Bukhari who was expecting a mandate from the Kreeri Wagoora constituency was denied ticket which led to his resignation from the party. Instead, the PDP awarded ticket to Syed Bashaarat Bukhari, who had left the PDP and then joined NC and later Peoples Conference.

Former chief spokesman of the PDP and a former minister Suhail Bukhari on Sunday joined Congress ahead of the first phase of elections in J&K. J&K Pradesh Congress president Tariq Hamid Karra announced Bukhari’s and former minister and legislator Babu Jagjeevan’s joining into Congress. “From the past many days many leaders joined Congress and the joinings are still going on. (X)

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Published on Sep 01, 2024 10:19 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

Sajad Lone-led People’s Conference releases first list of candidates for J&K polls

Meanwhile, PDP on Wednesday released another list of 17 candidates who will contest polls from different constituencies

People’s Conference president Sajad Lone (File)

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Updated on Aug 29, 2024 06:56 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

2 PDP, 1 BJP DDC members resign in lead-up to J&K polls

Angry over candidate selection for upcoming assembly polls, three district development council (DDC) members in south Kashmir – two from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and one from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – resigned from their parties

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Updated on Aug 27, 2024 07:48 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Srinagar

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J&K social welfare minister and National Conference (NC) leader Sakina Itoo demanded a judicial probe into the man's death.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti called for a complete "Kashmir bandh" and said that it was time to unite against the massacre of innocents.

Security personnel had to intervene to prevent a physical clash between Malik and PDP workers; Malik slammed the security wing for allowing PDP members into the premises and demanded the arrest of those who allegedly tried to assault him

Abdullah was referring to a recent controversy over a photograph of him with Union Minister Kiren Rijiju at the Tulip Garden in Srinagar; the chief minister said he had taken his father to the garden when the minister happened to be there

Following chaos in the J&K Assembly over the demand to discuss the Waqf law, PDP MLA Waheed Para was marshalled out.

Mansoor Hussain Suharwardy and Yasir Reshi joined the PDP after around four years after quitting the party

Resolution with regard to restoration of J&K’s statehood was passed in the first session of assembly last year and it stills stands, says chief minister Omar Abdullah

Iltija Mufti said that Hindutva and Hinduism are different, as the former wants to spread the hegemony of Hindus.

Addressing a press conference, PDP chief spokesman and former MP Mehboob Baig said that recently the J&K Housing Board had issued a notification for construction of satellite townships on both sides of ring road which starts from Galendar, Pampore, on the national highway.

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti in a statement said that they have information that the victims sustained serious injuries and were unable to walk and required assistance to reach a hospital for medical attention

Assembly member Tral Rafiq Ahmed Naik was appointed deputy leader and Kupwara MLA Mir Mohammad Fayaz as the chief whip

The decision to disband organisational bodies of the party was taken after senior PDP leaders, newly elected assembly members and contesting candidates of the assembly elections met in Srinagar

The winning National Conference-Congress alliance secured over 35% of the votes.

The party, which formed its first government in 2002 just three years after former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed formed it, faces a second successive electoral rout

While the exit polls have projected the NC-Congress combine to win 35 to 45 seats, there is a possibility of a hung House

Jammu and Kashmir election results: The former chief minister said all parties need to be together to save Jammu and Kashmir.

Former Srinagar mayor Junaid Azim Mattu claims that NC president Farooq Abdullah met BJP representatives in Pahalgam twice ahead of the poll results.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti cancelled her election campaign in solidarity with Lebanon after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed by an Israeli strike

J&K elections: Amit Shah said PM Modi eradicated terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir, and replaced stones in the hands of the youth with laptops.

Jammu and Kashmir elections: PM Narendra Modi said the three families think that it is their birthright to capture power by any means.

The party, which had won 11 of the belt’s 16 assembly seats, in the last assembly elections faces a stiff challenge in the stronghold, with the National Conference (NC) looking to make inroads.

Jammu and Kashmir elections: J&K is witnessing the first assembly election since the abrogation of Article 370.

Voting in Phase 1 of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections are set to take place on September 18 across 24 constituencies

The People’s Democratic Party’s chief said that if elected to power the party will first undertake a fast-track recruitment for about one lakh government jobs in a transparent manner.

The former chief minister questioned what was the compulsion of the People’s Democratic Party to form an alliance with the BJP in 2015?

Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti accuses Centre of trying to create factions within Jamaat by not lifting the ban on it

Omar said that Madhav was not close to any other political party (in J&K) other than PDP, when asked whether Malik’s assertions that Madhav’s J&K appearance was for an alliance with PDP.

Bukhari who was expecting a mandate from the Kreeri Wagoora constituency was denied ticket which led to his resignation from the party. Instead, the PDP awarded ticket to Syed Bashaarat Bukhari, who had left the PDP and then joined NC and later Peoples Conference.

Meanwhile, PDP on Wednesday released another list of 17 candidates who will contest polls from different constituencies

Angry over candidate selection for upcoming assembly polls, three district development council (DDC) members in south Kashmir – two from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and one from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – resigned from their parties

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