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Thousands of police mobilised for Srinagar rally seen as Modi’s campaign event for elections India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has made his first visit to Kashmir since the government revoked the region’s autonomy in 2019, claiming the state was f…
Read MoreAs tourists cancel trips to Gulmarg amid an unprecedentedly warm season, thousands of Kashmiris who rely on snowfall face ruinAs evening draws near, Bashir Ahmad Bhat is still waiting for his first customer of the day. Seven years ago, Bhat, 34, gave u…
Read MoreChief justice says government did not overreach its powers when it revoked autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019India’s supreme court has ruled that the government acted lawfully when it revoked the autonomy of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and brough…
Read MoreFahad Shah, whose case was a symbol of harassment of region’s media, says he has different outlook after months behind barsDuring his more than 600 days behind bars, Fahad Shah, a Kashmiri journalist, had begun to lose hope that he would ever see freed…
Read MoreThat the author could be prosecuted for comments made 13 years ago is absurd – but also a deadly threat to freedom of speechThe climate for media and free speech in India is in a dangerous place. The country is already ranked 161 out of 180 countries i…
Read MoreTop official sanctions case against Booker prize-winning novelist for comments about Kashmir The Booker prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy could be prosecuted for a 2010 speech about Kashmir after a top official signed off on the move, accordi…
Read MoreSocial media users share images of soldiers hiding behind tourism posters as sign of the reality since India took control of the regionImages of Indian soldiers hiding behind posters of mountain vistas have earned the mockery of Kashmiris who accuse In…
Read MoreThe climate crisis and farmers opting to grow more lucrative timber is putting many bat-makers in Kashmir out of businessFor more than 100 years they have been making cricket bats from Kashmir’s willow trees. Along the highway leading to the town of Sa…
Read MoreVisitors to Asia’s largest tulip garden in Srinagar, Kashmir, do not see the toil by low-paid workers that lies behind the spectacleAn explosion of colour – and long queues of traffic – marked the opening of Asia’s largest tulip garden in Srinagar, Kas…
Read MoreViolence and censorship rife among citizens and the media, as push to reclaim state land belies Indian government’s claims of peace in disputed regionSuhail Ahmad Shah stood despairingly before the wreckage that for two decades had been his livelihood….
Read MoreExclusive: papers kept classified for decades reveal India’s first PM acted on advice from most senior generalIndia’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was urged by his most senior general to agree to a ceasefire with Pakistan in 1948, the Guardi…
Read MoreGovernment documents fear letters about special status known as Bucher papers could affect foreign relationsIndia may prevent the declassification of papers from 1947 related to Kashmir as it fears the “sensitive” letters could affect foreign relations…
Read MoreNadav Lapid, chair of the International film festival India, spoke out against work that critics say is anti-Muslim propagandaA row has erupted in India after an Israeli director described a controversial film about Kashmir as propaganda and a “vulgar …
Read MoreSanna Irshad Mattoo says she was barred from taking a flight to New York where she was scheduled to receive the 2022 Pulitzer PrizeIndian authorities have been criticised after a Kashmiri photojournalist said she was barred from taking a flight to New …
Read MoreInfluenced by Led Zeppelin, the 29-year-old’s debut album almost didn’t get made because of a communications blackout. He talks about the blues, the Kashmiri spirit and the fight for freedom‘If someone like Neil Young or Bob Marley were born in Kashmir…
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