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(Scroll.in) Observers say this is a sign the party is falling back on muscular Hindutva as it seeks to retain Uttar Pradesh in 2022. But BJP’s opponents have another view.

On 5th August 2019, the GoI-Government of India scrapped the special status of erstwhile J&K-Jammu & Kashmir State followed by a strict lockdown and communication blackout. Thousands of political activists and resistance leaders were arrested and shifted to far-off jails in India. J&K’s diaspora was quick to gauge the severity of the situation and hit the streets to inform the world opinion about the silence enforced back home. Kashmiri diaspora proved to be a well-placed political resource at hand that had hardly been utilized in the right manner before.

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.

(The Wire) The names of targets that have toppled out of the Pegasus Project reporting do not show any prima facie linkage to “state interest”, but do so with the interest of the political party in power – the BJP.

(The Print) Banerjee is looking at a larger national role and is on a strong footing is evident from her confident body language and the way she continues to take on the Modi government over different issues.

(The Wire) The Modi crowd is now irreversibly sucked in the quagmire of official illegalities. The Pegasus syndrome is here to stay.

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

(The Wire) The Trinamool Congress has been at the forefront of attempts to create a national non-BJP alliance to fight the saffron party before the next parliamentary elections.