More than three-fourth of J&K’s population support scrapping special status, claims Rajnath Singh

He compared Article 370 with cancer that had allowed the state to bleed.

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· Yesterday · 06:22 pm

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.

Safwat Zargar

· Yesterday · 09:00 am

Jammu and Kashmir: Over 500 academics, scientists issue statement calling for end of curfew

The signatories said the restrictions have apparently made it difficult for citizens to even buy medical supplies or for children to attend school.

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· Sep 21, 2019 · 01:18 pm

Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter says ordinary Kashmiris look at India as an occupying force

At the ‘India Today’ Conclave in Mumbai, Iltija Mufti wondered if the country today was ‘Gandhi’s India or Godse’s India’.

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· Sep 20, 2019 · 10:44 pm

J&K: Mehbooba Mufti’s daughter seeks information on detentions on behalf of her mother

Iltija Mufti said she wrote to the Union home secretary and his counterpart in Jammu and Kashmir on September 18, but was yet to receive a response.

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· Sep 20, 2019 · 05:20 pm

UN chief Antonio Guterres may raise Kashmir dispute in General Assembly session, says spokesperson

This came a day after Guterres emphasised that dialogue between India and Pakistan was an ‘absolutely essential element for the solution of the problem’.

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· Sep 20, 2019 · 02:54 pm

J&K: SC says High Court report doesn’t support claim of access to state court being impeded

The Juvenile Justice Committee of the High Court has also been told to submit a report on the alleged detention of children.

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· Sep 20, 2019 · 01:35 pm

Hospital records prove that the Indian government’s claims of ‘zero violence’ in Kashmir are false

Visits to hospitals confirm at least deaths, one due to inhalation of toxic smoke and the other due to metal pellets.

Athar Parvaiz, FactChecker.in

· Sep 20, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Jammu and Kashmir’s first global investors’ summit postponed to next year

The event was scheduled to take place from October 12 to October 14 in Srinagar.

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· Sep 20, 2019 · 11:26 am

Tough for Imran Khan to accept that J&K is on path to prosperity now: India’s US envoy writes in NYT

Harsh Vardhan Shringla said Khan and other Pakistani officials had also raised the threat of a conflict, including a nuclear war.

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· Sep 20, 2019 · 09:02 am

Even as thousands are detained in Kashmir, courts and legal system remain frozen

Habeas corpus petition are piling up but hearings are being postponed and court orders have dwindled.

Anumeha Yadav and Menaka Rao

· Sep 20, 2019 · 06:30 am

J&K governor differs with other leaders, says PoK can be won through development, not war

Satya Pal Malik said people of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir would revolt and cross over to India after seeing prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir.

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· Sep 19, 2019 · 10:09 am