Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah calls for full statehood, deeming the current administration the worst. He notes progress in...

What we are witnessing in the market these days is similar to scenarios that have played out in the past. There have been many points in th...

The Election Commission (EC) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) have reached a consensus on holding assembly elections in Jammu & Kashm...

The full Election Commission of India (ECI) - chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar and election commissioners Sukhbir S Sandhu and Gyane...

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar expressed the Election Commission of India's satisfaction with the significant voter turnout in Jam...

EC to decide Lok Sabha schedule, uncertain on J&K assembly. Push for 'One Nation, One Election' in J&K post PDP-BJP. Challenge: massive par...

The Election Commission of India will hold a security review with the Ministry of Home Affairs to assess the possibility of holding assembl...

Holding that direct elections to legislative assemblies “cannot be put on hold” until statehood is restored, a five-judge Constitution benc...

ET gathers that availability of adequate security personnel is the key concern at the poll panel's end given five other state elections are...

The special summary revision (SSR) exercise in J&K had run into a political controversy earlier this year amid speculations that opening of...

Electoral roll was last revised in 2019 when 7,844,343 new voters registered for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The number was 7,316,946 for the...

The government is considering bringing in an ordinance and following it up with amendments to the J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019 to allow for...

J&K has been without an elected government since the PDP-BJP coalition collapsed in June 2018.

So, while Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim will have simultaneous assembly and Lok Sabha polls, J&K will not. Why?

Over 80% of the polling stations in the Valley are already designated as hyper sensitive.

The ministry has agreed to concede EC's demand for around 60,000 Central para-military troops to stand guard over polls across the four sta...

The November schedule is also seen as suitable for Jharkhand and Jammu & Kashmir. Polls in J&K may spill over to December.