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Srinagar, August 04 (KMS):  Notably, passport and employment applications have always had to go through the meat grinder of police verification in the past as well and thousands of people whose relatives were militants or had connection with militant outfits were denied clarification. In 2007, as Indian Express reported , around 60, 000 Kashmiri families were on a security blacklist. Many would get reprieve after moving the High Court.

Shefali Rafiq Srinagar, July 30 (KMS): Fifty people, mostly women, queued up outside a yellow-colored building, at the district hospital Pulwama, waiting under the scorching heat, to meet the only psychiatrist between the twin districts of Pulwama and Shopian. After waiting for two hours, 34-year-old Khateeja, who had come from …

(South Asian Wire) Nearly 75% of the full-time workers on Indian farms are women, according to an Oxfam report. In a given crop season, when fields are sown and harvested, women farmers in India work about 3,300 hours, double the 1,860 hours their male counterparts put into farming

(The Telegraph) Prisoners tell of beatings and electric shocks as India cracks down on opposition with use of UAPA

News 18 With Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh being hit by cloudbursts, experts on weather said predicting this disaster is difficult as it is mostly a localised event and occurs in the hilly areas. If 10 centimetres rainfall is received at a station in one hour, the …

The Wire India’s poorest households are impacted by a ‘double whammy’ of inhaling smoke produced by using solid fuels for cooking and disproportionate exposure to ambient air pollution from household consumption. The latter is largely emitted by affluent urban households, making the poorest at least nine-times more likely to die …

Bengal, July 26 (KMS):The number of “excess deaths” registered by the Civil Registration System (CRS) in West Bengal ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit (from April 2020 to May 2021), was an estimated 1,20,227, which is 11.1 times the official reported figure of 10,787 deaths for the same period. Five …

Gafira Qadir Srinagar, July 23 (KMS): The Kadoo family often keeps their two-storey residence in Ashajipora village of Anantnag locked from the inside. “Because I’m mostly naked. I can’t tolerate the clothes on my body,” said Masooda Tabassum, belovedly known as Masrat in her neighbourhood. “I feel itchy. My body …

(The Wire) Unlike the swift probe ordered in France, the reaction of the Modi government has been to deny the possibility of any involvement of the Indian authorities in any surveillance on the individuals named.

(The Guardian)  Study gives most comprehensive picture yet of true toll of pandemic in India