Kashmir
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).
Film and TV
Singapore bans ‘The Kashmir Files’, calls movie “one-sided” portrayal of Muslims
Singapore has banned the controversial Bollywood movie "The Kashmir Files", assessing it to be “beyond” the country's film classification guidelines.
India
In Ramadan, Muslims faced onslaught from BJP: Mehbooba Mufti
Former Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti said Muslims of the country were facing "unprecedented onslaught from the BJP and its militant political arms" during the holy month of Ramadan.
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Features
Ban for special Ramadan prayers at Srinagar Jamia Masjid hurts believers
On the last Friday of Ramadan, women desperately offered afternoon prayer outside the locked gates of Jamia Masjid. On the previous evening, the doors of Kashmir’s historic Jamia Masjid...
Features
Mughal road linking Kashmir’s Pir Panjal with Srinagar remains closed, commuters stranded
Nasir Khuehami and Ummar Jamal
Historic Mughal Road, an alternative road, to connect the bordering districts of Rajouri and Poonch to Srinagar continues to be closed since December last year....
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India
SC to take up pleas against abrogation of article 370 post summer vacation
The Supreme Court will hear a batch of petitions - challenging the law used to scrap Article 370 - after the summer holidays.
India
Tweet on iftar hosted by Army in J&K deleted after ‘criticism’ by hatemonger Suresh Chavhanke
The defence ministry’s public relations officer (PRO) in Jammu deleted the photographs of Indian Army’s iftar party in Jammu and Kashmir which was tweeted by Army's official handle, after the tweet came under attack from right-wing journalist and hatemonger Suresh Chavhanke.
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India
Kashmir: what happens after Imran Khan’s downfall?
Leoni Connah, University of Manchester
Since Imran Khan was ousted as prime minister of Pakistan on April 9, the future of the long-disputed and war-torn Kashmir region, on the borders...
Features
Hopes shattered, savings exhausted; Kashmiris jailed outside the valley
Shaban Ganai, a labourer in his 60s, had to sell off his cattle and land in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district to arrange money to travel over a thousand kilometres...
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India
Is unemployment spurring the already prevalent mental health crisis in Kashmir?
The wooden shelf of 29-year-old, Aadil Ahmad’s room shines with all the trophies he won in school and college. Aadil has a bachelor’s degree in Education and a postgraduate...
India
Kashmiri PhD Scholar arrested under UAPA for 11-year-old article
The Jammu and Kashmir Police’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) arrested a PhD student under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on Sunday for an article he wrote for the online...
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Features
Civilian killing spree grips Kashmir valley
A surge in violence, including a spate of militant attacks on civilians and off duty cops, has left scores dead and over a dozen wounded in the Kashmir valley...
India
Days after bail in UAPA case, Kashmiri Journalist Aasif Sultan booked under PSA
Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan, who got bail earlier this week in a UAPA case, has been booked under Public Safety Act.
The 35-year-old was granted bail by a special NIA...
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