Elections are integral to a parliamentary system of governance. But are they reliable indicators of the health of a democracy? This question has been brought to the fore, once again, by the peculiar s...

Nearly two in every three voters turned up at the booths in the panchayat elections in Kashmir on Saturday, the surprise 64.5 per cent count for the first phase coming after last month’s dismal part...

The Valley’s pro-India parties seem to have decided to abandon their boycott politics.The National Conference on Friday formally announced its readiness to participate in future elections, saying th...

BJP state secretary Anil Parihar and his brother Ajit Parmar were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Jammu’s Kishtwar town, aggravating communal tensions and forcing authorities to clamp curfew on ...

Uri town has bucked the trend of abysmal poll percentage in the municipal elections in the Valley, clocking a robust turnout of 75 per cent and unravelling a divide that “Kashmiri nationalism” is ...

Eleven days before the Jammu and Kashmir municipal election results are announced, new governor Satya Pal Malik has let on that a “foreign-educated” person would be elected Srinagar mayor, prompti...

Police say suspected militants have shot and killed two National Conference party workers in the Karfali Mohalla area of Srinagar.Police say the shootings outside a meat shop in Srinagar on Friday als...

Alienation corrodes democracy. The statement by the newly-appointed governor of Jammu and Kashmir, S P Malik, that mistakes committed by India have alienated the restive state from the Union should be...