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The ongoing District Development Council (DDC) election is adding more than 100 new females to the power set-up in Jammu and Kashmir. right now when some are reluctant participants, there is a huge number that is excited over the empowerment,reports Saima bhat
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TWENTIETH CENTURY KASHMIR
In his fourth books, Khalid Bashir Ahmad accesses rare documents to rediscover many people between Allama Iqbal and Sheikh Abdullah to various events from Roti Agitation to the making of National Conference
‘I HAVE RISEN FROM THE GROUND IN THESE ELECTIONS, NOBODY CAN TERM ME A PARACHUTE'
Trained lawyer and wife of former Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Beigh, Safeena Beigh, who won her DDC election from Wagoora after defeating the PAGD and Apni Party candidate told Yawar Hussain
AMSHIPORA REDUX?
Days after the sleuths completed investigations in the July 2020 fake encounter involving the killing of three Rajouri labourers, the killing of a teenage trio in a gun battle in city outskirts, has run into controversy with their families claiming they were innocent students, reports
A READING ROOM
A woman in Jammu sets up a library on her property to encourage students to read and gradually it is emerging a model for societies where families lack enough of space or the situation for the students to study, reports Umar Mukhtar
Pandemic's Emotional Toll
In Kashmir, Covid-19 hasn’t infected and killed people alone. It has broken families or pushed them into crises that are unlikely to settle. Saima Bhat reports the emotional toll of a pandemic involving alienation of husbands from wives, in-laws from daughters-inlaw and engagements that families terminated fearing the irreversible damage by the infection will mar the lives of their wards
‘GIVE US SAME RIGHTS AS MIGRANT KASHMIRI PANDITS'
Sanjay Tickoo is the leader of Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, the group of the members of the community that didn’t migrate from Kashmir in 1990. In this interview, Tickoo tells Umar Mukhtar that the Pandits who stayed back have been ignored by the government
DIVISION DIVIDEND
At least a dozen seats were won by BJP, independents and Apni Party because of the infighting within PAGD and its failure to take its understanding with Congress seriously, reports
DDC'S DOZEN QUESTIONS
In Kashmir, every solution triggers new problems. While the BJP government devised a new system within the democratic set-up to address the representation issues being talked about loudly, there were new questions that the exercise raised. Yawar Hussain picks some questions from Srinagar streets and attempts an answer
CAST IN STONE
A mosque constructed by the most celebrated Mughal Queen, Nur Jahan, in the heart of Srinagar fought a lot of negative narratives to survive as unique piece of Mughal architecture and a praying space for the faithful
OBAMA ON INDIA
The former US President Barack Obama’s book ‘A Promised Land’ has made a special mention of his first India tour and in between he had made a series of observations about the leadership and the politics of a nation that owes a lot to the struggle of Mahatma Gandhi
