Humayun Aziz Sandeela Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyat leader, Syed Ali Gilani, the face of Kashmiri resistance movement who challenged India’s hegemonic rule over Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir for decades, died on September 01, 2021 while under house detention. He was 92. Syed Ali Gilani was born in Zainageer area …
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(The Print) The 13-year-old Dalit girl was raped and killed by a relative of their landlord in Gurugram, whose home she was visiting.
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(Maktoob) After the family lost their men to prison, Zoona Begum and her daughter Nusrat have to stay alone at home even in nights feeling crushed by the government’s false labeling.
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(The Wire) The matter has been raised with India's foreign secretary, the Indian high commissioner to the UK and the Indian external affairs minister, the UK government said.
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(Scroll.in) They joined medical school to learn everything from surgery to anesthesiology. But the pandemic brought their education to a grinding halt.
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The last decade has seen the emergence of a new genre of Hindutva violence. In this genre, ritualised acts of public violence are enacted on the bodies of hapless Muslim individuals by Hindutva mobs that can range in degree from thrashings to lynchings, recorded on smartphones, and disseminated over social media. The latest victim of this phenomenon was the Indore bangle seller, Tasleem Ali, whose ‘viral’ public humiliation beamed across social media and television during the past week, likely reaching the living rooms of hundreds of thousands of people.
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