Kashmir’s young lovers, the unspoken casualty of lockdown
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir: On October 2, 2019, Sheema (name changed), 28, a resident of Srinagar, couldn’t contain herself and left in search of her boyfriend Suhail Dar...
Amid terror threat, anxious Kashmiris preparing for eventualities
Srinagar: A heightened threat perception has begun to affect routine life in Jammu & Kashmir, amid an increasing presence of the Indian armed forces. Earlier this week, the...
Sino-Nepal relation hit after murder of Chinese woman in Tibet
China has expelled 2,500 Nepali workers from Tibet after a Chinese woman was found murdered in the region China claims as its own. Chinese officials arrested a Nepali...
Driven by ideology, sons of slain militants in Kashmir are taking up arms
Shopian: In the predawn hours of May 3, 2018, a gunfight raged Malibug village of Shopian district in south Kashmir. The gunfight concluded with the killing of three...
Army offers vocational courses to Kashmiri youth to dissuade them from militancy
Jammu: In 2013, 24-year-old Rubina Akhtar lived in a small hamlet of Mahore in Reasi district of Jammu, had recently started taking knitting and sewing classes at the...
A militant who denied his family’s request to shun a violent path
Anantnag: Echoes of “I want my son Faisal to return” reverberate at Naibasti area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district, where 45-years-old Neelofar Akhter tells everyone, “I cannot bear this...
ISIS Presence in Pakistan, a major threat
Islamabad: Intelligence agencies of Pakistan have warned about threats from terror group Islamic State, also known as ISIS or Daesh, suggesting the home department to take adequate measures...
Five years later, Muzaffarnagar riot survivors continue to languish in camps without support
By Kamal Bhargava and Saurabh Sharma Muzaffarnagar: Torn tarpaulin roofs, crumbling plastic tents, open garbage and a strong odour emanating from a steady flow of wastewater mixed with faeces...
Art as dissent in Kashmir
Srinagar: In any conflict zone, women emerge as one of the most victimized classes. It is no different in the Valley, where the intensity of conflict ebbs and flows under the...
Centre’s skewed anti-Maoist policy: C’garh gets Rs53 Cr, Uttar Pradesh-349 Cr
Raipur: Even as Home Minister Rajnath Singh recently suggested that the Maoist insurgency is on its last legs, the ground situation in Chhattisgarh seems to belie that claim. Data...