India
Jammu and Kashmir govt expands social caste list by including 15 new classes
Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha on Saturday expanded the Union Territory’s social caste list by adding 15 new classes.
The new classes added are Waghey (Chopan), Ghirath/Bhati/ Chang community,...
India
Told to vacate official bungalow, says Mehbooba Mufti
Former Jammu & Kashmir chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief, Mehbooba Mufti, has been asked to vacate Fairview bungalow -- her official residence in Srinagar.
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Kashmir: Editor Fahad Shah, author Fazili charge-sheeted in “narrative terrorism” case
The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Thursday filed a charge sheet against prominent journalist and editor Fahad Shah and scholar Aala Fazili in a “narrative terrorism” case, describing the duo as “contaminated and compromised media persons."
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Kashmiri journalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo stopped from flying to receive Pulitzer Prize
Award-winning Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo on Tuesday said she was stopped from traveling from the Delhi airport to New York to receive the 2022 Pulitzer Prize .
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Jailed separatist leader Altaf Shah passes away
Jailed separatist Kashmiri leader Altaf Ahmad Shah passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi early on Tuesday morning, his daughter and journalist Ruwa Shah...
Features
Kashmiris remain cautious about reopened cinema halls
Sadaf Shabir and Fahim Mattoo
After nearly three decades, Kashmir got its three cinemas— one in Srinagar and the other two in Pulwama and shopian. It’s not the first time...
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Kashmir: Locals worried after leopard kill children in border town
Syed Abbass Hussein is a wretched father whose child fell prey to a leopard on the evening of 22 September in Moli Nag, North Kashmir's Uri. Syed’s seven-year-old son,...
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“He is on death bed”: Family presses to transfer jailed Kashmiri leader to private hospital
Altaf Ahmed Shah, Kashmiri separatist leader, has moved an interim bail application before an NIA court in Delhi seeking his transfer to Apollo hospital on humanitarian grounds.
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Jailed Kashmiri separatist leader needs urgent medical care, daughter to PM
Kashmiri journalist Ruwa Shah on Thursday wrote a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking intervention into the medical negligence faced by her father, Kashmiri separatist leader Altaf...
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Kashmir extrajudicial killing: SC dismisses father’s plea for handing over son’s body
The Supreme Court Monday rejected a prayer by the father of a Kashmiri man killed in the “encounter” in Jammu and Kashmir’s Hyderpora last year seeking directions to allow the exhumation of his son’s body and handing it over to the family for performing last rites.
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Court refuses to quash UAPA against professor, says he spoke against oppression in Kashmir
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court recently refused to quash an FIR registered against Abdul Bari Naik, an assistant professor working in a government college who has been accused of intending to provoke common people to use force or violence against the institutions like the army and the police.
India
“We are being punished by the law,” say Kashmiris to Amnesty International
In the three years since 5 August 2019, the Indian government has drastically intensified the repression of the people of Jammu & Kashmir, including journalists and human rights defenders by subjecting them to multiple human rights violations, said Amnesty International in a newly released report.
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