{"id":312011,"date":"2019-05-06T05:54:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312011"},"modified":"2019-05-06T05:54:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:54:52","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-grenade-attack-on-polling-booth-in-pulwama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-grenade-attack-on-polling-booth-in-pulwama\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Grenade attack on polling booth in Pulwama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301172 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/hand-grenade-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hand-grenade-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hand-grenade-450x420.jpg 450w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/hand-grenade.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Militants on Monday lobbed a grenade towards a polling station in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district where polling is underway in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha Polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, no casualties were reported in the blast, an officer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The area has been cordoned off by security forces, officer added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling is being held in Pulwama and Shopian districts of Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency. Anantnag has seen voting for Lok Sabha poll on April 23 while voting in Kulgam district took place on April 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are 18 candidates in the fray for Anantnag constituency including PDP president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militants on Monday lobbed a grenade towards a polling station in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama district where polling is underway in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha Polls. However, no casualties were reported in the blast, an officer said. The area has been cordoned off by security forces, officer added. Polling is being held in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[1141,3939,2270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312013,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312011\/revisions\/312013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}