Kashmir
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...
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
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”.
India
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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Features
Everything has become a cartoon: Kashmiri Cartoonist Mir Suhail
Beneath the iconic clock tower of Lal Chowk, Srinagar, Mir Suhail Qadiri sketches a pool of human targets. Suhail posted it with the hashtag #KashmiriLivesMatter - evoking the dangerous...
India
Kashmir lawyer shot dead at home
Panelist, writer and lawyer Babar Qadri was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Srinagar’s Hawal area on Thursday.
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India
Two Kashmiri photojournalists say brutally beaten up by police
Kamran Yousuf and Faisal Bashir, two photojournalists were brutally beaten up by the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday while they were covering an ongoing encounter between militants and security forces in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
India
Blood oozed out of my eye and face as pellets hit: High School student who was at Kashmir’s Muharram processions
The high-school student was hit with pellets in his left eye, arms, and face and fears he will lose his eyesight. He has already undergone his first surgery at a government hospital in Srinagar and is awaiting further treatment.
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India
India using pellet guns to maim, blind, kill Kashmiris, rights watchdog slams police action on Muharram processions
The Indian authorities should prohibit security forces in Jammu and Kashmir from using shotguns firing metal pellets to disperse crowds, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
India
Fish out of water: Scholars and researchers in Kashmir
For graduate students, or those pursuing research, high speed internet is an essential tool, especially when access to physical libraries is restricted. Methods used earlier to circumvent the internet problem are also unusable now (travelling to other areas to access the syllabi and resources, ferrying in hard drives with necessary content).
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India
Kashmir: Police fire pellet guns on Muharram procession
Indian police have fired shotgun pellets to disperse hundreds of Shia Muslims participating in a Muharram procession in Kashmir, injuring dozens in Kashmir on Saturday.
India
CPJ, 400 journalists and academics call for release of journalist Aasif Sultan
On 27 August, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international body for protection of journalists, has emailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi the letter demanding the release of Kashmiri journalist...
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India
Queers in Kashmir say without internet, they are completely isolated
"But as part of the LGBTQ+ community, we are already marginalised, so this lockdown is one more layer of that oppression. It is just pushing our community to the wall."
India
Restore high-speed internet in Kashmir, international organisations repeat their demand
More than 25 international and national non-profit organisations and civil society groups voice their concerns urging the Jammu and Kashmir Government to restore high speed internet access in the region.
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