Friday, March 29, 2024

Kashmir

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...

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.

“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.

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).

“Police and judge became a single force against me”: Afzal Guru’s letter to his lawyer

In the early hours of 9 February 2013, Mohammed Afzal Guru was secretively hanged in Tihar Jail in New Delhi after 12 years in solitary confinement in connection with a deadly attack on India’s parliament in 2001. Guru's body was interred in Tihar Jail and his wife and son were not informed.

PDP MP rebukes Centre’s claim of normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir

PDP MP Mohammad Mir Fayaz said the government claims normalcy has returned to the region, asking, "If that is true, why not bring a Bill to restore Statehood, instead of this Bill?"
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Kashmir: Father booked under UAPA for demanding son’s body

The Jammu and Kashmir Police has booked the father and family members of the 11th class student who was killed by Indian forces in Srinagar on 30 December 2020, under the draconian UAPA for organising a protest where they demanded the return of the body of minor, reported the Kashmir Walla.

“4G or no 4G or absolutely nothing… we don’t care.”: Kashmiri netizens react to the lifting of the 4G ban

Samiya Latief , a Journalist from Kashmir wrote “After suspending 4G internet for over 550 days in Jammu and Kashmir, restoring it is NO a favor to us. Period!”
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FIR against 2 news portals in Kashmir after reporting a ‘forced’ Republic Day function

An FIR has been registered against The Kashmiriyat and The Kashmir Wala, two Kashmir based news websites after a complaint was filed by the Indian Army on Sunday.

Hours after bail, police pick up Kashmir youth leader in another terror case

Hours after he was granted bail by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in a case of terror funding, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party youth wing leader Waheed-ur-Rehman Para was detained again for questioning in a separate terror-related case.
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“They were just students,” families of three killed in Kashmir deny Army version

Soon after the incident families came forward claiming the three were innocent and had no militant links.

Pictures: Season’s first snowfall in Kashmir valley

Residents of Srinagar and other parts of the valley woke up to witness beautiful view snow spread all around like blankets.
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Parveena Ahangar writes to UN demanding protection of APDP following NIA raid

Prominent Kashmiri activist Parveena Ahangar on behalf of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), wrote a letter to the United Nations on Friday demanding the protection of APDP and the victim families it supports in the light of punitive raid by NIA on 28 October 2020.

NIA raid exposes State’s desperation to deter APDP: Parveena Ahangar

In a press statement released by Parveena hours after the raid, she raised serious concern over misuse of sensitive information, including names and addresses of victims present in documents seized from APDP and apprehension of reprisal against victims of human rights violations.
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If New Delhi thinks Kashmir issue is not an issue, it will eat you up: Mehbooba Mufti

In her first press conference after her release from 14-month long detention, former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti said the Kashmir issue is an issue and if New Delhi thinks it is not an issue, “the issue will eat you up”.

J&K administration seals Kashmir Times office, gives no reason

The Jammu and Kashmir administration has locked one of the two properties allotted to the oldest and largest circulated newspaper Kashmir Times in Srinagar.
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