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Topic: DDC polls

PDP youth leader Waheed Para, arrested under UAPA, wins J&K DDC poll from Pulwama

Waheed Para defeated his nearest rival of the BJP by over 1,000 votes in Tahab (Pulwama I). His party chief Mehbooba Mufti hails the victory.

2 women from PoK contested J&K DDC polls, counting hasn’t yet begun on their seats

Somiya Sadaf and Shazia Alam were settled in J&K with their ex-militant husbands as part of Omar Abdullah govt’s rehabilitation policy in 2010.

Early trends show Gupkar alliance ahead of BJP in J&K DDC polls

There are 280 DDC seats for which voting was held over eight phases in the Jammu and Kashmir, the first mass election after scrapping of Article 370 last year.

8th phase of district development polls in J&K begins amid freezing weather

Against the 13 District Development Council constituencies of Kashmir division going to polls, there are 83 candidates in fray, including 31 women.

Farooq Abdullah seeks repolling in Garoora-Bandipora, alleges booth capturing in DDC polls

In a letter to State EC KK Sharma, Abdullah claimed that real voters of the People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration candidates were disallowed to vote at a number of places.

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Fourth phase of district council polls underway in Jammu and Kashmir

Polling is taking place for 34 seats. A total of 138 candidates from Kashmir division and 111 candidates from Jammu are contesting in the fourth of the eight-phase DDC polls.

How Gupkar alliance cracks have surfaced in small Baramulla hamlet in J&K DDC polls

Candidates in all-women Wagoora constituency include PDP women’s wing chief, homemaker representing Gupkar alliance, ex-minister’s wife and a Kashmiri Pandit.

J&K district council polls candidate shot at in Anantnag, condition stable

The incident took place as polling was on for the third phase of the DDC elections in the Union Territory Friday. The voter turnout was 25.58% till 11 am.

321 candidates in the fray in second phase of J&K District Development Council polls

According to the state election commissioner, the second phase has about 7.90 lakh eligible voters across 2,142 polling booths — 1,305 in Kashmir and 837 in Jammu.

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Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.