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(Time) Billy Perrigo The Sanatan Sanstha’s extended presence on Facebook—despite being banned from the platform—raises questions about how effectively the company is delivering on its commitment to root out hate speech and incitement to violence, including in its largest market, India. Facebook allowed a Hindu extremist group to operate openly …

(The Kashmir Wala) Shefali Rafiq The deserted streets in Srinagar, currently under a lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, brings back the memories of the August 2019 clampdown for Junaid Firdous Naqash, a 32-year-old tent supplier. Naqash, a third generation businessman in his family, said that the peak marriage …

(The Kashmir Wala) Zenaira Bakhsh Weeks before Eid in May, surgeon Owais Makhdoomi received a distress call from his sister Mursaleen Asim, who was pregnant with her first child. She had developed symptoms of the Covid-19 disease and was worried for her unborn baby. Asim’s pregnancy had elated the entire …

(The Fuller Project) Shaheena Jan walks along a rough road from her home to reach the main street that leads to the hospital, where she is working as a part-time sweeper in a government hospital in Shangus, Anantnag in South Kashmir. With no public transport available due to the lockdown …

(The Dispatch) Five-year-old Mir Adda chose a ‘Barbie dress’, wore a crown and was excitedly calling for family to cut her brother’s birthday cake, minutes before a leopard took her away from the lawn of her house in the city’s outskirts, in a tragic case underlining human-animal conflict because of …

(Early Times) On March 23 when experts warned of a second Covid-19 wave, the authorities in Jammu and Kashmir asked people to visit Tulip Garden in Srinagar. On March 25 when the Tulip Garden was thrown open, Kashmir registered 131 cases and the active cases at that time were around …

By Jacob Koshy India, even before Independence, was among the countries that indigenously manufactured vaccines almost years within they were discovered, historical records suggest. Narendra Modi’s speech on Friday presented a view of India’s vaccination history that is at odds with the facts. “If you look at the history of vaccinations …

  (Scroll.in) Safwat Zargar On May 19, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court issued notice to the Central government asking it to file a reply within a month to a petition challenging the validity of the infamous Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act. The Public Safety Act is a preventive …

  (Los Angeles Times) June 04, 2021 One by one, the villagers fell sick. It started with a fever, then breathlessness. By then, it was too late. There was no medicine, oxygen or hospital nearby to save them. Their bodies had to be carried by family to the river and …

(Aljazeera) Ruth Dsouza Prabhu June 04, 2021 Last year, Shyam, 17, became one of the thousands of children in danger of living on the streets of India. Shyam’s father had abandoned his family in Gudhiyari – a village in Raipur in Chhattisgarh state – eight years earlier. Shyam’s older brother, …