Meet the leader of a new political party in Kashmir: ‘We believe our future lies with India’

The president of the brand new Jammu and Kashmir Political Movement (I) said a leader in Delhi influenced his political career but declined to name him.

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· Yesterday · 09:00 am

Meet the amateur pellet doctors of Srinagar who treat protestors too scared to go to hospital

Their surgical tools include blades, Dettol-soaked cottonwool and cycle spokes.

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· Sep 19, 2019 · 09:00 am

In Kashmir’s apple town, fruit growers are caught between government and gunmen

After a five-year-old child was injured in an attack in Sopore, few will venture to the forbidden fruit mandis.

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· Sep 14, 2019 · 09:00 am

Government ads in J&K papers insist that scrapping special status will end state’s ‘backwardness’

These include papers to which the government had stopped ads just months ago.

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· Sep 13, 2019 · 07:53 pm

‘Comeback of Dogra rule’: With special status gone, Kashmiris fear losing land rights once again

Post 1947, reforms that transferred land to the tiller shaped Kashmiri society and gave it the resilience to protest.

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· Sep 09, 2019 · 09:00 am

A CRPF raid in Kashmir didn’t spare women – even though the force denies this

As young men on the outskirts of Srinagar escaped incoming CRPF soldiers, women were left to deal with them.

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· Sep 07, 2019 · 09:00 am

In Kashmir, a quiet crackdown – on mosques and clerics

At army camps, clerics are counselled against speaking about Article 370. Those delivering critical sermons are threatened with arrest.

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· Sep 06, 2019 · 09:00 am

When even a 12-year-old buying bread in Kashmir gets detained in police sweep

The families of those detained say no charges or FIRs have been presented to them.

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· Aug 28, 2019 · 06:00 pm

Interview: ‘This is the price we have paid for being Indians in a place like Kashmir’

Nuzhat Ashfaq speaks about the detention of her father and her husband, both veteran National Conference leaders in Kashmir.

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· Aug 28, 2019 · 11:30 am

Raids at night, handbills by day: Army siege in South Kashmir escalates after special status revoked

Army officials in Srinagar denied knowledge of raids and said they were only concerned with ‘people within the ambit of terrorism’.

Ipsita Chakravarty

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· Aug 27, 2019 · 09:00 am

Kashmir ground report: A cancer patient struggles to reach hospital for chemo, others can’t get home

With movement severely restricted, sick people have found it difficult to access health care.

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· Aug 10, 2019 · 11:30 am

‘Anti-national coverage’: There is a quiet crackdown on the local press in Kashmir

Government ads, the mainstay of the leading newspapers, have been pulled. Editors and reporters have been detained and questioned.

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· Jul 19, 2019 · 09:00 am