News Topic:DDC Polls

Elections: SEC reviews preparations for counting

JAMMU — State Election Commissioner, KK Sharma, on Friday chaired a meeting of officers to review preparations for counting of District Development Council (DDC) and...

High-speed Internet ban extended in J&K

SRINAGAR — Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday extended the ban on the high-speed 3G and 4G Internet services in all but two districts...

PAGD candidate’s polling agent shot at in Pulwama

PULWAMA — Suspected militants fired upon a 35-year-old man outside his village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.The suspected militants carried out the attack in...

DDC Polls: Development plank no longer excites Pulwama, Shopian locals

PULWAMA/SHOPIAN — Around 95 per cent residents of south Kashmir's Pulwama and Shopian stayed away from polls as the slogans of development no longer...

DDC Polls: Phase-V records 51 percent voting, says SEC

SRINAGAR — State Election Commissioner (SEC), K K Sharma on Thursday said that the Phase-V of ensuing District Development Council (DDC) polls ended peacefully...

Three journalists beaten by government forces in Anantnag

SRINAGAR — In the ongoing fifth phase of DDC elections, three journalists were beaten by security forces in Srigufwara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag...

Armed forces used to rig elections in Shopian: Mehbooba

SRINAGAR — PDP President and former chief minister of J&K, Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday accused armed forces of rigging elections in south Kashmir's Shopian...

DDC candidate’s apple orchard vandalized in Pulwama village

PULWAMA — Unknown persons chopped down over three dozen newly planted apple saplings of a man who recently contested District Development Council (DDC) elections...

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