Posts By Bisma Bhat
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3.6KGovernanceBlackout in Kashmir as 20,000 PDD employees go on indefinite strike against privatisation, talks with Admin fail
Srinagar: Despite temperature dipping to minus, several districts of Jammu and Kashmir have been cut off from electricity causing immense difficulties to...
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6.8KConflict‘It’s rubbish’: Why figures revealed in an RTI angered Kashmiri Pandits
In his quest to unearth some hard facts from official files, a Haryana-based RTI activist has ended up revealing the figures contradicting...
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2.8KEducationKU students protest against varsity admin over closure of reading room ‘since two years’
Srinagar: More than two years have passed since ’round the clock’ reading room facility at the University of Kashmir continue to remain...
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2.9KEducationAfter textbook shows ‘blasphemous content’, JKBOSE asks schools to withdraw books from private publishers
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education has directed all schools across Jammu and Kashmir not to use books from any...
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3.9KHuman RightsHuman Rights Activist Khurram Parvez shifted to Tihar Jail under 3-week judicial custody
Srinagar: Despite international human rights bodies condemning the arrest of Kashmir-based Human Right Activist, Khurram Parvez, and demanding his “immediate release”, Khurram...
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3.2KJammu & KashmirKashmiri journalist wins Anupum Mishra Memorial Medal 2021 award
Srinagar: A Kashmiri journalist has been awarded Anupum Mishra Memorial Medal 2021 for his environment-based stories. In 2016, the Indian Rivers Forum,...
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2.8KJammu & Kashmir
Kashmir’s HR defender Khurram Parvez’s arrest evokes widespread criticism, condemned internationally
Srinagar: After the news of the arrest of prominent Kashmir-based Human Rights Defender, Khurram Parvez spread globally, various internationally recognised rights bodies...
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5.2KHuman RightsFrom writing stories to narrating her sorrow—Kashmiri journalist’s justice campaign
“Every day I go home, my cousins run to me and ask: ‘Have police given you Baba’s body?’ I’ve no answer to...
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4.8KHealthcareKASHMER launches new programs, free-of-cost healthcare support for needy
Srinagar: Social organisation Kashmiri American Society for Healthcare, Medical Education and Research (KASHMER) held an awareness program on Friday afternoon ‘to make...
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3.6KCricketSolidarity, symbolism and sedition: Case-study of three captive Kashmiris
Beyond played-up patriotism, and Indian cricket team’s symbolic support to the persecuted, pathos of three Kashmiri families are pointers of the barefaced...
