Kashmir
Elections 2024
Betrayals, false promises and broken alliances: Election apathy peaks in Kashmir
Mubashir Naik and Zoya Malik
As Jammu & Kashmir encounters the parliamentary election this month, uncertainty looms, about whether the Kashmiri people will cast their vote or stay away from...
Elections 2024
Omar Abdullah to contest from Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir
National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla constituency, party chief Farooq Abdullah announced on Friday.
India
Admin bans prayer in Srinagar’s Jama Masjid on Jumat-ul-Vida, Shab-e-Qadr
The Jammu and Kashmir administration authorities closed the gates of Srinagar's Jama Masjid stopping the worshippers from attending...
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...
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...
Features
Eid-ul Adha in Kashmir: Joy and sorrow
This year, Eid brought some joy in Kashmir Valley. However economy has not revived back and it reflected sorrow for many.
India
Family of Kashmiri man allegedly killed in police custody seeks probe
The family of 21-year-old Muslim Muneer, allegedly killed in police custody moved the court for seeking a probe into the alleged custodial killing of her son.
City Court Judge, Ajay...
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India
13 July: Kashmir’s martyrs day India wants to forget
13 July was officially commemorated as Martyr’s Day in the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir from 1949. This was until 2019 when New Delhi, post-Article 370 abrogation, scrapped...
India
“Can’t trust police blindly”: Family of Kashmiri youth who killed in custody
Shafiqa had purchased new clothes for her son, unaware that he wouldn’t be alive the next day, on Eid. Since then, she has been clinging to his last memory, a newly purchased shirt, that he was supposed to wear on Eid.
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India
15 dead after flash floods hit Amarnath yatra base camp in Kashmir
At least fifteen people were killed in a cloudburst today near the cave shrine of Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baltal. Rescue operations are underway.
Features
“Our daughter keeps asking where her baba is”: Aasif Sultan’s wife on her husband’s incarceration
“Areeba keeps asking us where her ‘Baba’ is. What all to explain to a 4-year-old?” says Sabina Akhter, wife of Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan who has been in jail for over 1,400 days now.
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India
Lashkar militant caught in Jammu is BJP’s IT cell chief: Report
“A top Lashker-e-Taiba militant”, overpowered by locals and handed over to the police, is an active member of the Bharatiya Janata Party who was recently selected as its IT and social media cell in charge of the minority morcha in Jammu province, according to saffron party’s documents.
India
Pulitzer winning Kashmiri journalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo stopped from travelling abroad
2022 Pulitzer Prize winner and Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo was stopped by immigration authorities while trying to fly from Delhi to Paris despite holding a valid French visa.
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India
Hyderpora killings: HC allows Amir Magrey’s family to perform prayers at his grave
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court Friday directed the UT administration to allow the family of Amir Magrey, the fourth person killed in Hyderpora killings, to perform Fatiha Khawani (religious rituals/prayers after burial) at his grave.
Features
Ineligible for job, higher education; Indian students enrolled in Pakistan upset by UGC notice
Malik Nisar and Mir Aiyaz
It is 11 am in the morning and Sajad, instead of attending conferences, is busy fencing the apple garden on the outskirts of his village....
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India
India-Pakistan stand-off hit intra-Kashmir trade
Bereft of any hustle, the trade facilitation centre at Salamabad Uri in north Kashmir's Kupwara district wears a deserted look. This centre till 2019 used to facilitate the exchange...
Features
Fear for life: Pandits want to flee from Kashmir to “safer places”
Malik Nisar and Sajad Hameed
“We wish to stay back in our homeland but the situation is not conducive. Our people are getting killed regularly. We were kept confined to...
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