(Scroll.in) It has become necessary to reiterate the obvious.
Read More »Article: Tripura Police thinks reporting on communal violence is a crime. It is not.
Article: Behind the extravagance of Kashmiri weddings
(Greater Kashmir) Marriages are indeed made in heaven, and solemnized on earth, but let’s make sure that we solemnize them in a beautiful manner, in a moderate way – neither extravagantly not miserly.
Read More »Feature: Arbitrary arrests tear apart journalists’ families in Kashmir
Bilal Hussain When Gulzar Ahmad Dar reads the local newspaper, he isn’t interested in the news and latest events in Kashmir. He wants to know what is happening to his son, Manan Gulzar Dar. The photojournalist, whose work has appeared in local outlets and publications such as The Guardian and …
Read More »Article: India struggles to put out crop waste fires that fuel air pollution
(The Wire) Stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana accounts for 30% to 40% of air pollution in October and November, according to air-quality monitoring agency SAFAR. In 2018, the Indian government set out to tackle the problem by establishing a fund to help farmers get rid of rice paddy straw by using machines. It took Rs 2,249 crore and four years, but the plan aimed at stopping farmers torching their crop waste has failed to have any measurable impact on air quality. A sharp rise in rice production and yields in India, the world’s biggest exporter of the grain, has exacerbated the problem of crop waste.
Read More »Feature: COVID killed 5 times more unvaccinated people than vaccinated ones in IIOJK
Zehru Nissa In the past three months, with the similar number of vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals testing positive in Kashmir, deaths have been five times more among those who did not get a shot, J&K Government’s official data shows. Divisional COVID19 Control Room (DDCR) Kashmir released the official analysis of …
Read More »Article: The communal pollution caused by the fascist forces
Humra Quraishi Can the Samajwadis be so utterly naïve to label their recently launched perfume, Samajwadi Perfume, potent enough to wipe away the communal hatred spreading around by the combined forces of the right-wing! No doubt, a refreshing idea to launch a perfume in these dark times, but can all …
Read More »Article: Hunger in India: Index & Reality
Dr S Saraswathi It is not in India’s fortune to remain happy with its achievements for any long time as global assessments go against it in another form. Recognition of Covaxin by the WHO marks an important milestone in India’s pandemic fight– a real feather on its cap — but …
Read More »Analysis: India’s NSA meet dubbed as ‘failed attempt to erase track record of state-terrorism’
Islamabad, November 09 (KMS): India is holding the summit of National Security Advisers of regional countries on Wednesday, which the experts believe, is going to prove a futile exercise to cover its nefarious use of foreign policy as a state-terrorism tool. Experts say that the summit on Afghanistan has turned …
Read More »Article: ‘Miskeen Bagh custodial killing’: After 25-yrs, court directs police to probe investigating officers
Junaid Kathju Srinagar, November 09 (KMS): After an elapse of twenty-five years, the district court Srinagar has ordered the disposal of the closure report into the killing of a shopkeeper Mohammad Ramzan Bhat in Miskeen Bagh area of Srinagar in 1996 and has directed the police to constitute Special Investigation …
Read More »Article: Absence of Muslim factor leads to BJP’s humiliation in by-polls
(Clarion India) The party appears to have exhausted the Moditva card in those places where Hindus are in huge percentage
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