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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 …

Zenaira Bakhsh Shafiqa had purchased new clothes for her son, unaware that he wouldn’t be alive the next day, on Eid. Since then, she has been clinging to his last memory, a newly purchased shirt, that he was supposed to wear on Eid. A day before, it was around 9:30 …

Aliza Noor “Areeba keeps asking us where her ‘Baba’ is. What all to explain to a 4-year-old?” says Sabina Akhter, wife of Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan who has been in jail for over 1,400 days now. Aasif, who in 2019 was given the John Aubuchon Press Freedom award, has been …

Zenaira Bakhsh Since his arrest, Mohammad Bilal’s family has been unable to meet him in jail due to the fear of being detained like the family members of many others who dared to visit their kins in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur jail. Local police arrested 85 Muslim men of different age …

MALIK NISAR It is 11 am in the morning and Sajad, instead of attending conferences, is busy fencing the apple garden on the outskirts of his village. This may become a routine as India’s education body, University Grants Commission is likely to put a brake on his studies. Sajad completed …