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JAMMED JANUARY

As mercury dropped to a record low consistently, Kashmir faced the harshest winter in thirty years. With cascading effect on every sphere of life, Saima Bhat chronicles the hardships faced right from lack of mobility to management of frozen pipes

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MELODY IN MUSIC

Mixing modern melody with prose and poetry, Kashmir’s new age singers and musicians have resurrected folk songs in a different way. Creating their own platforms, this new breed of artists is reaching out to audiences using social media. While keeping alive art and culture of the place, they are finding success as well, reports Khalid Bashir Gura

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COMBATING COLD

Unable to move back to warm places owing to financial constraints, many nomadic families were stuck in Kashmir this winter. As cold snap hits severely, the impoverished nomads caught in the crisis shiver in tarpaulin tents, reports Yawar Hussain

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Warmth In Winter

As the temperature plummets across Kashmir, various individuals and social groups are helping the poor brave the bitter cold, reports Saima Bhat

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‘CONGRESS BELIEVES ARTICLE 370 IS A PERMANENT FEATURE OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION'

Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Ghulam Ahmad Mir blames the sudden announcement of the DDC elections for his party’s poor showing. In an interview to Yawar Hussain, he talks about binning of autonomy and the post-poll alliance with the PAGD at some DDCs to keep the BJP out

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VACCINE HESITANCY

As Covid-19 vaccination gathers pace in Kashmir, a section of people are sounding cautious not knowing that sixty per cent of vaccines consumed globally are made in India, reports Saima Bhat

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SHEIKH'S UN SPEECH

Within four months after the tribal raids led to the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir and eventually triggered the first war between India and Pakistan, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Kashmir’s most popular leader delivered a long speech to the United Nations Security Council (meeting 241) on February 5, 1948. Denying any rights to Islamabad over the decision-making by Kashmir, Sheikh’s speech remains a key document in understanding his Kashmir vision

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DINING WITH PIRATES

Cafe Pirates is north Kashmir’ first themed restaurant modelled on a Hollywood movie reports Aqib Nazir

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Fighting Covid-19

After receiving the first shipment of 1.46 lakh Covishield doses, Jammu and Kashmir administration has inoculated over 15000 workers last week in 100 odd sessions with the target set at inoculating 112893 health care workers.

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