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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.

Masrat Zahra: An award-winning Kashmiri journalist’s haunting past

Although, Zahra is longing to return home and to be with her family she is uncertain about the decision. "I want to work there [as a journalist like earlier] but considering the situation [in Kashmir], they won’t let me and then I also won’t be able to come out of the [Valley]," she said.

Jammu: Demolition drive in Muslim Tribe locality sparks protest

Holding tightly her two months old baby wrapped in a blanket, Rozi Jan is sitting idle on the remnants of her ransacked house in the Upper Paloura area of Roop Nagar in Jammu.
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Hours after getting bail, Kashmiri Journalist Sajad Gul booked under PSA, sent to Jammu jail

After being arrested for more than a week, 23-year-old Kashmiri journalist Sajad Gul has been slapped with the draconian Public Safety Act, PSA, and shifted to Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu. 

“Coup”: Journalists shocked after police aided takeover of Kashmir Press Club

On Saturday, there was an unusual presence of police and paramilitary outside the Kashmir Press Club (KPC), located in the Posh Polo view market. An armored white ambassador pulled...
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Kashmiri journalist Sajad Gul gets bail

Kashmiri journalist Sajad Gul, arrested for posting a protest video on social media, was granted bail on Saturday after spending nine days in prison.

Why is Kashmiri journalist Sajad Gul in Jail?

Sajad Gul, a journalist with The Kashmirwala has been arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police days after he posted a video of women raising anti-India slogans following the...
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Kashmiri journalist arrested after sharing a protest video

Sajad Gul, a journalist with The Kashmir Walla has been arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police days after he posted a video of family members and relatives raising anti-India slogans after the killing of their kin, a militant, in a gunfight in Srinagar.

“All lies,” says family of Kashmiri teenager held by NIA

On 30 December, NIA carried out a search at  Arsalan Feroz's residence in Srinagar's Zaldagar area and later detained him. 
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Kashmir: Three Gujjar men booked under PSA, families in limbo

In Gabpathri, a hamlet with Gujjar settlements in the thick forests and jagged mountains of Bandipora, Kashmir, the villagers are in shock after three men among them were arrested...

Kashmir delimitation protests: Three former CMs placed under house arrest

Political leaders in Kashmir Valley including three former chief ministers were placed under detention ahead of a protest by the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration against the Delimitation Commission’s recommendations.
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Kashmiri man moves HC seeking return of his son’s body for burial

The father of Amir Magray, one of the four killed by the Indian Army in the Hyderpora area of Srinagar in November, on Thursday filed a petition in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court seeking the return of the body of his son, maintaining his "innocence."

Why Kashmiris believe new delimitation draft aimed to ‘disenfranchise’ Muslims?

Apprehensions are brewing up among Kashmiris after Delimitation Commission’s recommendations for proposing additional six seats for the Hindu-dominated Jammu region and one for the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley.
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