Mufti Muhammad Sayeed News

Polling in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag Assembly constituency on Wednesday ended peacefully.

Voting was earlier scheduled to be held on June 19.

Mehbooba will head an alliance of her Peoples Democratic Party with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The Governor's Rule has been imposed in Jammu and Kashmir retrospectively with effect from January 8.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Congress president Sonia Gandhi are scheduled to visit Srinagar on Sunday to offer condolences to the family of late chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Muhammad Sayeed.

Senior BJP leader LK Advani on Thursday said that Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed always favoured unconditional talks to resolve the Kashmir problem.

The burial of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, who passed away on Thursday morning in New Delhi, will take place in the evening at the family's ancestral graveyard in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district, family sources said.

The death of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed has left a huge void in the nation and in Jammu and Kashmir, President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday.

Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, who founded J&K Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1999, was admitted to AIIMS in New Delhi on December 24.

 Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on Wednesday said the National Food Safety Act, 2013, will be implemented in the state from February 1 next year and its benefits would be based on 2011 Census.

 Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on Saturday said the cross Line of Control (LoC) trade and travel was the biggest breakthrough in the state's history and vowed to take cross LoC trade to the next level.

Unprecedented security arrangements have been made for the visit of PM Narendra Modi, who would address a public rally in Jammu and Kashmir.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not intolerant and rather wanted inclusive development for everybody in the country.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public rally in Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar on November 7, sources said on Thursday.

Violence raged in parts of the Kashmir Valley on Sunday after a victim of a bomb attack on a truck in Udhampur on October 9 died in Delhi, police and residents said.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed on Wednesday said that over 20,000 concrete bunkers would be built along the LoC and IB for the safety of residents living in border areas in Jammu region.

The Army on Thursday said it would vacate the Tattoo Ground here in three months if alternate land is given at a mutually acceptable place within this period.