Leaders and officials from several countries began to offer their condolences to Iran following the announcement of the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials in a helicopter crash northwest of the country.
Read moreLeaders and officials from several countries began to offer their condolences to Iran following the announcement of the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials in a helicopter crash northwest of the country.
A one-day state mourning will be observed across India on Tuesday as a mark of respect for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, the Union Home Ministry has announced.
Many people in central and north Kashmir displayed their grief by hoisting black flags and banners. Mourning processions were held in Srinagar, Pattan and Budgam beside Ladakh to mourn the death of the Iranian leaders.
Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency, which was once militancy-infested, recorded its highest-ever voter turnout on Monday at 59 per cent on a violence-free polling day, the Union territory's Chief Electoral Officer P K Pole said here.
Voters thronged polling stations in large numbers in Soibugh as voting got underway in north Kashmir's Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency on Monday, expressing satisfaction over the improved security situation and the fading "fear" of separatist-sponsored boycott calls of the past...
In Langate area of frontier district Kupwara, many voters said they voted to help to release those who are languishing in jails for years.
A police officer was injured after allegedly being assaulted by a political leader and his supporters at a polling station in Pattan town of North Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
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