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Zenaira Bakhsh About two weeks after the mysterious deaths of four Muslim men in judicial custody at the Baruipur Central Correctional Home, South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, their families still await answers to what actually happened in those ten days. All these days later, the postmortem reports of Abdul …

Neha Dabhade & Hozefa Ujjaini Against the backdrop of anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat’s Himmatnagar and Khambhat in April this year, a fact-finding team consisting of Neha Dabhade, Deputy Director at Centre for Study of Society and Secularism and Hozefa Ujjaini, social activist and Director of Buniyaad visited Khambhat and Himmatnagar …

(The Wire) According to a 2019 study, the level of opioid abuse in J&K is among the highest in the country. It is the easy access to drugs of all kinds in the valley that is pushing youngsters down this abyss.

(The Wire) Using heavy machinery and working after dark, contractors and possibly even government agencies are flouting many of the clearly stated rules for environmental protection.

Zenaira Bakhsh Days after barring Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri photojournalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo from travelling abroad, another Kashmiri journalist, Aakash Hassan was barred from boarding his flight to Colombo, Sri Lanka. After reaching the airport at about 3:30 pm on Tuesday afternoon, Hassan collected his boarding pass. While heading toward immigration, his …

Zenaira Bakhsh On Saturday evening, Nargis Saifi received a five-minute-long distressed call from her husband. With a trembling voice, Khalid Saifi informed her that his condition inside the jail was worsening. Khalid was calling her nearly four days after his health condition had deteriorated. For the past four days, his …

(The Wire) Over 100 houses have already been demolished in the Ghunghuti Para area in the Sambalpur district. The other families have moved the high court to save their homes.

MUBASHAR NAIK In June, Jammu Municipal Corporation passed a resolution to rename Sheikh Nagar in Jammu to be called Shiv Nagar, and Amphalla Chowk could be renamed Hanuman Chowk. The move has been criticized by many people including Opposition leaders. The resolution was moved by Sharda Kumari, a Bharatiya Janata …

Eidgah also hosts the largest cattle market in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir where hundreds of thousands of animals are bought and sold. Khan Waqas and Basit Parray In Jammu and Kahmir, Eidgah are also hosts to the largest cattle market. At the entrance of the large, open-air …

Waquar Hasan Kalawati, a widow mother of three children, is worried for her home and three children for the last some weeks. Weeks ago, a senior official from Chitrakoot Karvi’s Nagarpalika threatened to run bulldozers on the houses of her colony if they don’t vacate the area. She was distressed …