With Manoj Sinha, a career politician returns to the helm of the administration in Jammu and Kashmir

The new lieutenant governor has been a member of the BJP since 1989.

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· Aug 06, 2020 · 08:18 pm

A year after Osaib Marazi became Kashmir’s first casualty on August 5, no FIR, no death certificate

His father says he no longer expects justice, just acknowledgment that wrong was done.

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· Aug 05, 2020 · 09:00 am

A year of government policies that eroded hard-won land rights in Jammu and Kashmir

Permanent residents are replaced with domiciles. Land is reserved for outside investors and armed forces.

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Ipsita Chakravarty

· Aug 04, 2020 · 09:00 am

A year after Ladakh celebrated Union Territory status, the mood has changed

Residents want protections under the Sixth Schedule and job security. The autonomous hill councils feel undermined by the Central administration.

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· Aug 03, 2020 · 06:30 am

A year when courts failed to hear petitions and left jailed Kashmiris at the mercy of the government

While many Kashmiris held under the Public Safety Act were freed after the government revoked preventive detention orders, others are still in jail.

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· Aug 02, 2020 · 09:00 am

A year without high-speed internet ravaged health, education, entrepreneurship in Kashmir

High-speed internet was particularly crucial to treating patients during the pandemic.

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· Aug 01, 2020 · 06:30 am

One year after special status ended, Kashmiris have disappeared from government in J&K

It has reinforced a common belief in the Valley: the August 5 decisions were aimed at robbing Kashmiri Muslims of economic and political rights.

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· Jul 31, 2020 · 09:00 am

Covid-19 in conflict zones: Nearly half the inmates of two prisons in Kashmir and Assam infected

Prison authorities are struggling to contain the spread of coronavirus in overcrowded jails.

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Arunabh Saikia

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Ipsita Chakravarty

· Jul 21, 2020 · 09:00 am

An attack in North Kashmir strikes at the heart of the BJP’s outreach in the Valley

Days before three BJP members were shot dead, there were local protests against the party’s alleged high-handedness.

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· Jul 11, 2020 · 06:10 pm

In Jammu and Kashmir, long-marginalised minorities are granted domicile rights

But the region’s Muslim inhabitants fear being reduced to a minority, pushed out of jobs and land.

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· Jul 06, 2020 · 09:00 am

Was a three-year-old Kashmiri boy the only non-police witness to his grandfather’s killing?

The incident has become the centre of a heated political battle.

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· Jul 03, 2020 · 11:56 am

Is this the end of militancy in South Kashmir? A spate of new recruits suggests it is not

Former police officials feel anger against the stripping of special status and the militarisation of South Kashmir have spurred more youth to join.

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· Jul 01, 2020 · 09:00 am