Thursday, April 25, 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.

Kashmiri journalist Masrat Zahra wins IWMF’s Courage in Photojournalism Award

Kashmiri photojournalist Masrat Zahra won the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF)'s Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award on Thursday.

Wounded in shell explosion, Kashmiri boy fights for life, family demands govt aid

"My brother hasn’t been injured in a road accident. It’s because of the government’s negligence and carelessness that live shells are still in Tosa Maidan because of which he got critically injured," Asif's elder sister Maqsooda said.
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Female athletes from Kashmir struggle with frequent lockdowns

"I now practice in my small rooms with a little bit warm up. My game is suffering from a lot of difficulties these days, "Nairah, a national Boxing Champion...

Pictures: The valley’s fight against a pandemic

A major crisis is regarding the Muslim majority region's healthcare is that the Kashmir's hospitals, which remain understaffed and ill-equipped to fight the deadly virus.
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When a Kashmiri Muslim asked Hindu nationalists tough questions

On 22 November, the Hindu Student Council at Rutgers University in New Jersey organized an event on Kashmir featuring Indian film maker Vivek Agnihotri. 26-year-old Kashmiri American Shajei Haider...

Full text: Kashmir Caged, fact-finding report by activists who traveled across Valley

Kavita Krishnan from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) , economist Jean Dreze, Maimoona Mollah, All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) and Vimal Bhai, National Alliance of People's Movements...
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3 wrongfully jailed Kashmiris finally free after 23 years

The state’s highest Court acquitted six accused, three of them from Kashmir. Sentences of two other convicts were upheld by the Rajasthan’s High Court.

ASIFA was raped only because of the identity she possessed (a Kashmiri Muslim women)

For you, she may be another Nirbhaya, but for us, she's a lot more than that. Her tragic murder reminds us of our sisters, who were selectively raped during the Gujarat genocide; and many known and unknown similar incidents that continue to happen in this nation and across!!
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