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India hits out after Iranian leader criticises treatment of Muslims

Despite strong ties, Khamenei’s past criticisms include India’s handling of Muslim issues and the Kashmir region.

Al Jazeera

Kashmir Election Marks Shift In Local Governance Dynamics

Residents in Indian-controlled Kashmir prepare for local elections amid political shifts and tensions, seeking empowerment and change. The polls offer a ch...

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Kashmir election: Are separatist candidates change agents or Trojan horses?

For decades, the Jamaat-e-Islami boycotted elections. Now, the banned group has upended its position—and the campaign.

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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).

Newslaundry

Hi-tech, strategic: new wave of Kashmir militant attacks before elections stuns Indian forces

Military scrambling to thwart insurgency that contradicts Delhi government claims to have brought peace to region

The Guardian - UK

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.

Newslaundry

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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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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No exit polls in Haryana, J&K during election period: ECI

The Election Commission of India has issued a notification regarding the publication of exit polls during the election period in Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

'Centre snatching identity, rights of Jammu & Kashmir': Rahul Gandhi

"A state has been abolished and the rights of the people have been snatched away." Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Will India-Pakistan rivalry hurt Russia-China led SCO grouping?

Pakistan has invited Indian PM Narendra Modi to the upcoming SCO summit in Islamabad. Modi is unlikely to attend.

Al Jazeera

J&K Assembly Polls: Congress releases second list of 6 candidates

The Congress party on Monday released its second list of six candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Rad further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Congress holds CEC meeting to finalise candidates for J-K elections

The Congress Party held a CEC meeting on Monday at its headquarters in New Delhi to finalise candidates for the remaining seats in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Disruption or disaster? The uncertainty around Engineer Rashid’s party, Jamaat in Kashmir polls

Langate is quiet just as it was in the beginning of the Lok Sabha election in April. But the sleepy north Kashmir town is expected to buzz soon with political activity, and erupt, much like it did in May, in support of the jailed Awami Ittehad Party leader Engineer Rashid.

Newslaundry

‘Promises hollow, not sure how surveillance will change’: Journalists on J&K polls and manifestos

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In Kashmir, parties offer little hope for journalists in run-up to polls

There is little that parties in poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir are offering for journalists despite increased challenges to press freedom over the last five years in the erstwhile state.

Newslaundry

Assembly polls: J&K at the cusp of another change. Is its media free enough to report it?

Jammu and Kashmir is set to hold assembly polls after a decade in October, but it seems that not every journalist will be able to cover it freely – the past five years have been especially difficult for the press in the valley.

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India To Hold Local Polls In Kashmir After Autonomy Revocation

India's decision to conduct local elections in Kashmir aims to restore normalcy and empower locals in the conflict-ridden region, with implications for sta...

International Business Times

Indian-administered Kashmir To Hold First Local Polls In A Decade

Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir will hold local elections for the first time in a decade, the head of the electoral commission said Friday, after polls were stalled in the disputed region following New Delhi's imposition of direct rule in 2019.

The Independent UK

India to hold local polls in disputed Kashmir from Sept. 18, 5 years after revoking its autonomy

India has announced three-phased assembly elections in disputed Kashmir that will start on Sept. 18, the first since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 stripped the Muslim-majority region of its semi-autonomy and downgraded it to a federally controlled territory

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