Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Kashmir

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

Kashmir editor summoned for ‘seditious’ article in magazine published when he was 12

Yasraj Sharma, the interim editor of ”The Kashmir Walla” has been summoned by the Jammu and Kashmir Police counter-intelligence wing for questioning him about an article published in the online magazine in 2011.

Bank manager from Rajasthan shot dead in Kashmir’s Kulgam

A bank manager from Rajasthan was shot dead on Thursday by suspected militants in Kashmir’s Kulgam, days after a woman teacher was killed outside a school. The militants fired at...
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Kashmir: Migrant lady teacher shot dead by militants

A school teacher Rajni Bala was shot dead by militants in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Tuesday morning, Kashmir Zone Police said.

Local news show preserves Chenab’s endangered languages

Anzer Ayoob, a  23 years old, college dropout, is rapidly becoming a household name in journalism in the Chenab valley region of Jammu and Kashmir.
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“No one can bring back my dead daughter”: Family mourns killing of Kashmiri TV actor

Soon after he saw his daughter lying in a pool of blood, Khazir Bhat fell consciousness. Hours later, his 30-year-old daughter, Amreen Bhat was brought home, dead.  Moments before, Amreen’s...

“Saffronizing Jhelum through Chenab across Pir Panjal”: BJP benefits from delimitation in J&K

Shadab Farooq and Anzer Ayoob The delimitation panel was formed in March 2020, and it was given a two-month extension to finish redrawing Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir last...
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Protests over Yasin Malik’s sentencing: 10 arrested under UAPA in Kashmir

Ten persons have been arrested under the draconian Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act on Thursday after they staged protests against NIA court's sentencing of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik.

Photos: Protests in Kashmir over top rebel Yasin Malik given life in jail

In several areas of the Valley including main city Srinagar and Malik's home town Maisuma, shopkeepers downed their shutters before the pronouncement of the sentencing against Malik.
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Kashmir: Television actor shot dead in suspected militant attack in Budgam

Popular television actor Ambreen Bhat was shot dead and her 10-year-old nephew received bullet injuries after suspected militants fired at them on Wednesday evening in Chadoora town of Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district.

JKLF’s Yasin Malik gets life imprisonment in terror funding case

Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Yasin Malik was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday in a terror funding case.
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Jailed Kashmiri rights defender Khurram Parvez named in Time’s list of 100 Most Influential People

The well-known human rights defender in Kashmir Valley, Khurram Parvez, who has been imprisoned by the authorities under draconian laws, has been named by the Time Magazine in its list of "100 Most Influential People of 2022."

Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik convicted in terror funding case

A special National Investigation Agency court in Delhi on Thursday convicted Jammu and Kashmir separatist leader Yasin Malik in connection with a terror funding case after he pleaded guilty last week. The...
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