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Elections 2024
BJP minister Jitendra Singh’s wealth doubled in 10 years: Data
Union minister Dr Jitendra Singh, who is fighting his third Lok Sabha elections on a BJP ticket from Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur, recorded a growth of over 100 percent...
Features
Interview: Kashmiri historian Hafsa Kanjwal accuses India of memoricide, repression
Human rights groups and United Nations experts have repeatedly warned against India's crackdown on the civil liberties of...
India
Electoral bonds: UP company gave Rs 10 crore to BJP four weeks after bagging contract for Kashmir tunnel
In December 2019, months after Kashmir had been stripped of its special status under the Constitution and statehood, Lucknow-based infrastructure firm Apco Infratech Private Limited secured a contract in the Kashmir Valley to build a tunnel, and less than four weeks after receiving the go-ahead for the project, the firm donated 10 crores to the BJP through electoral bonds.
India
“We want justice”: Man crushed to death by CRPF vehicle in north Kashmir
On 9 March, around 11:15 am, Habbibullah Shergojri was crossing the road in the main market of north Kashmir’s Bandipora when a parked CRPF vehicle, previously stationary, suddenly started moving, crushing him to death.
India
Union govt extends ban on Yasin Malik-led JKLF for 5 years under UAPA
The Union Government on Saturday extended the ban on jailed Yasin Malik’s Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).
India
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."
India
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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India
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,...
India
“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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India
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...
India
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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India
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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India
NIT-Srinagar asks students not to watch Sunday’s India-Pak cricket match in groups
The National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar has asked its students not to watch Sunday’s India-Pakistan Asia Cup cricket match in groups or post anything related to it on social media platforms.
India
Mirwaiz again stopped from delivering Friday sermon at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid
Hurriyat Conference chairperson, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, was again stopped by police from leaving his house to deliver the sermon at Kashmir’s historic Jamia Masjid.
Earlier, the Lieutenant Governor (LG) of...
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