Awami Ittehad Party winning a significant number of seats could undermine mainstream regional parties' bid to reclaim power, while BJP leaders are wary of separatists entering assembly.
National Conference won 2 out of 3 seats in the Valley, with PDP drawing a blank. BJP’s grip in Jammu region's 2 seats has remained steady, but Ladakh has slipped from its grasp.
Mehr Chand Mahajan is often credited as architect of Jammu & Kashmir princely state’s accession to India. The BJP is now giving him a fresh round of applause.
BJP marking upcoming Panchayati Raj Diwas celebration programme in Jammu on 24 April as start of its poll campaign. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Samba for the event.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
A moving column by Shri Sankarshan Thakur on what has created the phenomenon of Engineer Rashid. Telegraph.