Bakshi Stadium

Bakshi Stadium is a stadium in Wazir Bagh, Srinagar, Kashmir. The stadium can host 30,000 spectators and is mainly used for football matches. The stadium is able to host the highest-standard matches, including some of Real Kashmir FC in the I-League. It is one of the biggest football stadiums in Indian-administered Kashmir. As per FIFA norms, stadium would be developed to world-class facility with the budget of ₹44

Ball clay

Ball clays are kaolinitic sedimentary clays that commonly consist of 20–80% kaolinite, 10–25% mica and 6–65% quartz, along with small amounts of organic matter (such as lignite) and trace amounts of other minerals such as pyrite and siderite. They are a common raw material for various types of ceramics, where their primary roles are to impart unfired strength, plasticity or to aid rheological stability during the shaping processes. Most ball clays impart colours

All Parties Hurriyat Conference

All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) is an alliance of 26 political, social and religious organizations formed on 9 March 1993, as a united political front to raise the cause of Kashmiri independence in the Kashmir conflict. Mehmood Ahmed Saghar was the first convener of the APHC-PAK chapter when the alliance was established in 1993. The alliance has historically

Altaf Bukhari

Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari is an Indian politician hailing from Jammu and Kashmir. He is the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party, a political organization, which he launched in 2020. He served as the Member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly from 2015 to 2018, representing the Amira Kadal Assembly constituency. He served as the education minister of Jammu and Kashmir and

Anantnag–Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency

Anantnag–Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency is one of the five Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. Anantnag–Rajouri JK-3 Lok Sabha constituency Constituency details Country India Region North India Union Territory Jammu and Kashmir Assembly constituencies 18: Anantnag, Anantnag West, Budhal, Devsar, DH Pora, Dooru, Kokernag, Kulgam, Mendhar, Nowshera, Pahalgam, Poonch Haveli, Rajouri, Shangus–Anantnag East, Srigufwara–Bijbehara, Surankote, Thannamandi and Zainapora Established 2022 Reservation None Member of Parliament 18th Lok Sabha Incumbent Mian Altaf Ahmed Larvi Party Jammu

Article 35A of the Constitution of India

Article 35A of the Indian Constitution was an article that empowered the Jammu and Kashmir state’s legislature to define “permanent residents” of the state and provide special rights and privileges to them which were not available to Indian citizens in general. It was added to the Constitution through a presidential order, i.e., The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954 – issued

1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election

Election for the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir were held on 23 March 1987. Farooq Abdullah was reappointed as the Chief Minister. The election is widely perceived to have been rigged. The rigging of the election is believed to have led to the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir. After the following elections to the Parliament in 1989, which saw low turn-out, Governor’s Rule was declared in Jammu

2019–2021 Jammu and Kashmir lockdown

The 2019–2021 Jammu and Kashmir lockdown was a preventive security lockdown and communications blackout that had been imposed throughout the Indian-administered union territory of Jammu and Kashmir following the revocation of Article 370 (August 2019) which lasted until February 2021, with the goal of preemptively curbing unrest, violence and protests. Most separatist leaders had and have been detained in the crackdown. The Indian government had stated that the

AIR Srinagar

All India Radio Srinagar (AIR Srinagar) is a public radio station operating in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. All India Radio Srinagar broadcasts in Kashmiri, Urdu and Hindi languages. Formerly known as Radio Kashmir Srinagar, it was renamed as AIR Srinagar following the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. It is one of public stations in the union territory alongside AIR Jammu and AIR Leh. All India Radio Jammu

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Vijaypur, Jammu

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Vijaypur, Jammu als known as AIIMS Jammu is a public medical research university and hospital in Vijaypur, Samba district, Jammu division, Jammu and Kashmir, India. On 3 February 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the institute. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Vijaypur, Jammu Motto Aarogya param baghya Type Public Established 2020 President YK Gupta Director Shakti Gupta Academic