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Jammu city serves as the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir state from November to April when all the offices move from Srinagar to Jammu. Srinagar serves as the summer capital from May to October. [33] Jammu was a municipal committee during 2001 census of India. With effect from 5 September 2003, it has upgraded status of a municipal ...
Jammu and Kashmir was also host to the first Khelo India Winter Games, held in 2020 in Gulmarg. [111] Jammu and Kashmir came first with the most gold medals at 26, followed by the Indian Army team with 8 gold medals. [112] The second edition of the winter games were also held in Gulmarg in 2021, with Jammu and Kashmir coming first again. [113]
The Jammu division (/ ˈ dʒ æ m uː, ˈ dʒ ʌ m-/ ⓘ; Dogri pronunciation: [dʒəmːuː]) is a revenue and administrative division of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] It is bordered by the Kashmir division to the north.
Jammu and Kashmir was the only Indian state to have its own official state flag, along with India's national flag, [98] in addition to a separate constitution. Designed by the then ruling National Conference, the flag of Jammu and Kashmir featured a plough on a red background symbolising labour; it replaced the Maharaja's state flag. The three ...
The Jammu–Baramulla line [2] is a railway track between the towns of Jammu and Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The 338 km railway track will connect the Kashmir Valley with Jammu Tawi railway station and thence to the rest of India. [3] [4] It comes under the jurisdiction of the Jammu Railway Division of Indian Railways's Northern zone.
The INC won 6 seats, Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party (JKPDP) won 3 seats, while CPI(M), Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference and Aam Aadmi Party won one seat each. 7 seats were won by independent candidates. [11] After BJP's 25.64% largest share of the popular vote, JKNC won the second largest share at 23.43%.
The Dogra Hindus of Jammu were originally organised under the banner of All Jammu and Kashmir Rajya Hindu Sabha, with Prem Nath Dogra as a leading member. [182] In 1942, Balraj Madhok arrived in the state as a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He established branches of the RSS in Jammu and later in the Kashmir Valley.
The Burusho, or Brusho (Burushaski: بُرُشݸ , burúśu [6]), also known as the Botraj, [7] [8] are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Yasin, Hunza, Nagar, and other valleys of Gilgit–Baltistan in northern Pakistan, [9] with a tiny minority of around 350 Burusho people residing in Jammu and Kashmir, India.