Society
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2.2KGame on: Meet Kashmir’s online warriors who use PUBG as a weapon to fight drug menace
After taking the world by storm, online multiplayer game Player Unknown’s Battle Grounds (PUBG) has found strong roots in Kashmir where boys...
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Militant killed in Pulwama was an MBA, had quit job in top bank to start business before picking up the gun
Ishfaq’s father was a popular militant commander from Pulwama ‘His last Facebook posts were only in praise of jihad’ Srinagar: The militant...
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With minors in adult prisons in Kashmir, is the new juvenile justice draft a travesty of existing Act?
Governor Satya Pal Malik recently courted another controversy when he decided to introduce the new Juvenile Justice Act draft in ‘special status’...
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Kashmir’s ‘Wall of Kindness’: ‘The best part is no one knows who gave and who took’
Srinagar: The Bund in Lal Chowk, Srinagar, a ‘Wall of Kindness- Deewar-e-Meharbani’ has come up. The wall, painted red and white has hangers, ...
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Pictures of abandoned elderly person on footpath raises concerns about need of shelter homes in Kashmir
As pictures of an elderly third gender Kashmiri person who had spent around 20 days lying on a footpath near the United...
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From the same town, different fates of Kashmir’s three Sarpanchs
South Kashmir’s Kakapora area has the story of three Sarpanchs – dead, former and active. One was gunned down by the unidentified...
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‘My baby boy died. It had a head full of hair’: Mentally challenged woman allegedly gang-raped near Makhdoom Sahib shrine
Srinagar: Zameer (name changed) lies on a bed in Lal Ded Maternity Hospital’s general ward. She is not in the state to...
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One in the grave, another in depression: Conflict-torn fate of two sisters in Kashmir’s Kulgam
Oblivious of the new twist in her dead sibling’s case, a depressed sister is still grappling with the ‘grave’ reality of her...
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54 percent of Indians encourage their children to become teachers, says global study
Indians are the most positive when it comes to choosing teaching as a career, UK-based Varkey Foundation’s ‘Global Teacher Status Index (GTSI)...
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Pack of stray dogs maul at least 51 in Baramulla, locals say canines have endangered lives
Srinagar: A pack of stray dogs mauled at least 51 persons in Kantbagh and its adjacent areas of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district...
