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Yasin Malik dares India in its capital, “will protest, even if stopped”

By News Desk | New Delhi, India The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Yasin Malik remained adamant to go on with the proposed 48-hour hunger strike at the Jantar Mantar here to press government of India to return the mortal remains of the JKLF founder Maqbool Butt and Mohammad Afzal Guru, despite the threats from [...]

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Bill in J-K assembly for Machail Yatra Shrine Board; Geelani calls it a new way of occupation

By Fahad Shah | New Delhi The Jammu and Kashmir will be having a shrine board for the Chandi Mata Machail Dham pilgrimage in Kishtawar. The board will be constituted if the bill, placed in the legislative assembly by a Congress party member, will be passed. The pro-freedom leaders, however, have been demanding the dismantling [...]

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Ratanpuri denied ‘meet in isolation’ with Geelani

By News Desk A day after the relatives of Hurriyat Conference (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Geelani accused authorities in New Delhi of imposing severe restrictions on him, National Conference leader and Member Parliament, Gulam Nabi Ratanpuri was Sunday denied a meet in isolation with the octogenarian leader at New Delhi. The first time MP from South Kashmir [...]

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SAR Geelani leads Kashmiri students protest in Delhi

By News Desk Hundreds of Kashmiri students studying in Delhi on Friday held a protest against the hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail. The protests march coincided with the Eidgah Chalo call given by the Hurriyat Conference in Jammu and Kashmir. Carrying banners and placards that read: We Want Freedom, Quit Kashmir, Resistance for [...]

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India ignores Justice Verma reccomendations

By Adnan Bhat Delhi, India hile the ongoing debate on the recommendations given by Justice Verma’s panel continues. The government of India has conveniently decided to look the other way on the matter concerning amendments in Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as suggested by Justice Verma committee.In-fact the Law Minister of the country Ashwani [...]

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Girls, speak up

By Anusha Soni One day enraged with suffocation and suffering Betwixt my tradition and ambitions I looked for the evil that was creating darkness. I desperately looked out of the window, screamed and squealed Challenged the devil to come and face me. When no one turned up, I sat down, lost and disappointed   Looking [...]

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The misdirected debate on rape in India

By Anusha Soni The streets of the capital fume with fury and desperation. Thousands of people gather at India Gate, Rashtrapati Bhavan, Jantar Mantar and other nook and corners of the country to express their disgust and condemnation to the incident. I struggled to find an adjective to be added before the word ‘incident’ in [...]

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Arundhati Roy speaks out against Indian rape culture

The writer Arundhati Roy tells Channel 4 News she believes rape is used as a weapon in India and that women in the country are “paying the price”.

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After 16 years in jail, Indian court acquits two Kashmiris

NEW DELHI – Two years ago, in April, 2010, a Delhi court awarded death sentence to Mohammad Naushad, Mohammad Ali Bhat and Mirza Nissar Hussain, and Javed Ahmed Khan was sentenced to life imprisonment, charging them for a bomb blast, fitted in a Maruti car, which killed thirteen people and injured thirty eight in Delhi’s [...]

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The other side of Delhi

illi/Delhi/Dehli call it by any name and what comes to mind is a salad bowl of cultures, religions, languages and people. The capital of India famous for Mughal architecture, Mosques, Markets and the best it has, the diversity is not just a city but an experience. People from across India and the world come here, some [...]

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Dossiers of a ‘Very’ Special Cell

During the time when people are arrested in Kashmir, Karnataka, Delhi, Tamil Nadu and several other parts, the state comes out with its version of facts and evidences to establish the arrests. Several times a person is arrested in Delhi or Mumbai and media starts flashing the news “Mastermind held”. There are many occasions when [...]

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Hope is a flicker

Reflecting the innermost sorrows, the peripheral joys, the morbid isolation and the despondent alienation of a life which yearns for nothing more than a moment of unconditional love. These moments below instigate us to contemplate whether the race for living life has subjugated the worth of life itself. Whether accomplishment has coerced compassion, an emotion [...]

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