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IITs and IISERs provide internships to 500 science students from Jammu & Kashmir
The internship will be conducted in two phases — May 15 to July 15 2020 and one month in Decembe…
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Farooq Abdullah to finally be free after eight months, Public Safety Act revoked in Jammu & Kashmir
Abdullah had been kept on house arrest at his Srinagar residence since the abrogation of Article…
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Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh will now be two separate Union Territories
With both articles abolished, the ‘state’ of Jammu and Kashmir no longer exists. It is bifurcate…
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Three Indian photojournalists win Pulitzer price for covering Jammu and Kashmir after it lost its special status
Three photojournalists — Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand — who work at Associated Press …
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Muted Eid celebrations in the Valley amidst partial curfew and August 15 security
Kashmiri students have boycotted a lunch invite from the central government to express their pro…
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India's blackout and extreme crackdown in Kashmir could ignite a violent uprising
Associated Press An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard near a temporary checkpoint during …
Ellen Ioanes,Ellen Ioanes
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Reporters in Kashmir get a satellite phone for ₹100,000 a piece as all other communication devices are shut down
However, the complete communications blackout would be a severe handicap for a contingent of on-…
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India’s opposition wants Narendra Modi to reveal his Kashmir plan in Parliament
Nazir Ahmad of People’s Democratic Party has issued a zero hour notice in the Parliament. Mea…
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What is an adjournment notice that the Congress is demanding from Modi on J&K
What is an adjournment notice? If the adjournment motion is accepted, the House adjourns afte…
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India's top court has declared the record-breaking 159-day-long Kashmir internet blackout illegal
The court also ordered the Indian government to make public all orders on internet shutdowns, which…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Kashmir's 5-month internet blackout is the longest ever imposed in a democracy - and it's stifling local workers
"The Kashmiris have always felt that they have a distinctive identity, especially the Muslims in th…
Havovi Cooper
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India officially eliminated Kashmir's flag and constitution as its internet blackout goes into 13th week
The announcement was coupled with a total communications blackout in Jammu and Kashmir, with intern…
Alexandra Ma
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The phone and internet blackout in Kashmir is so total that locals reportedly don't know India rewrote their constitution
Some have been able to bypass the internet ban: India's state-owned BSNL telcom provider sold satel…
Alexandra Ma
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Pakistan cuts off all trade with India after it abruptly revoked Kashmir's quasi-independence and cut off the internet
Many people in the mostly-Muslim region either want independence, or rule by Pakistan. But after In…
Alexandra Ma
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High voter turnout marks India’s second phase of polling — aside from EVM malfunctions, violence at poll booths, and internet shutdowns
Eleven Indian states and one union territory were up for vote today in the second phase of India…
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India is replaying Trump's favorite strategy by accusing the media of fake news in Kashmir, where it cut off the internet and tried to silence journalists
"Basically the media are terrified now of saying anything the government doesn't want them to say b…
Alexandra Ma
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India shut off the internet and ordered tourists to leave the hotly contested Kashmir region, in a risky bid to end its quasi-independence
After India and Pakistan separated in 1947, the maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir chose to become part…
Alexandra Ma
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Top 10 crucial judgments by Supreme Court in the year of the pandemic
Justices began hearing arguments by video conferencing, a momentous step for an institution, w…
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Indian prime minister Modi appears with Bear Grylls on 'Man vs Wild' as he cuts off Kashmir's food and internet for 9th day
This crackdown came after the Indian government removed a constitutional provision that had guarant…
Alexandra Ma
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India gets a rap from UN Human Rights Commission a day after it seals the office of Kashmir Times
However, Bachelet’s issue isn’t related to that one incident. Instead, she points to India’s n…