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
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.
India
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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Features
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...
Kashmir
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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India
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...
India
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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India
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.
India
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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