Society
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2.5KDwindling water supply, ‘smelly’ drinking water is making people sick in Kashmir
With natural resources and abundance demanding that there should be no water shortages in Kashmir, this is far from reality on the...
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A day before marriage, bridegroom-to-be goes ‘missing’
The family has lodged a ‘missing’ report in the police station Srinagar: A man from Oie Bamdora village of Kokarnag in South...
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Excise department identifies 67 locations for sale of liquor across Kashmir
Srinagar: The Jammu Kashmir’s excise department, as per an official notice, has identified 183 new locations, 116 in Jammu and 67 in...
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Opinion: What the rape culture tells us about our society
A thirty-year-old man rapes a teenage girl in Kashmir. No outrage, no anger, nobody raises an alarm. Nobody questions this power that...
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‘Moklovukh’: Notes around my baby girl’s birth
In the series titled The Memory Project, Free Press Kashmir aims to recreate the clampdown through people’s memories and document lived experiences...
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Sikh leaders across Kashmir come out in unison against ‘attempts to spread tensions between communities’
The statements came after a robbery case at a Gurdwara in Srinagar and hanging of a Sikh man in Kulgam Srinagar: Sikh...
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Muslims in South Kashmir’s Tral help perform last rites of Kashmiri Pandit
‘Loss of Jagar Nath saddened whole village’ Srinagar: Amid Covid-19 pandemic, Muslims in South Kashmir’s Tral region arranged stuff to help family...
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Vaisno Devi shrine in Jammu serves Sehri and Iftiyar to Muslim labourers in quarantine, wins praise
As the lockdown due to coronavirus continues, thousands of people have been stranded during the pandemic, many people are stuck in quarantine...
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A silversmith’s ‘broken’ account of his craft and city
Braving situational strife and market mess which collectively put a lock on his shop for nearly a decade, a silversmith from Khwaja...
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‘I often come home crying’: Eve-teasing, the ‘unexorcised demon’ of Kashmir
New Crime Branch Gazette has painted a very grim picture of the Jammu and Kashmir vis-à-vis crime against women. The report says...
