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314PoetryPoem: I’ve been thinking of that summer…
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Kashmiris in Dubai stuck over defence and administration’s red-tapism as FlyDubai awaits clearance
The proposed FlyDubai flight from Dubai-Srinagar on 9th and 10th June has been stuck in uncertainties after required information was not given...
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- 199Memory
Memory of a day that wasn’t
In the series titled The Memory Project, Free Press Kashmir aims to recreate the clampdown through people’s memories and document lived experiences...
- 376Opinion
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...
- 293Fake News
FACT CHECK: Did entire staff of leading clinical laboratory, super-store in Srinagar test positive for COVID?
With COVID-19 cases on the rise in Kashmir, there has also been a sudden spike in rumours and fake news. In the...
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- 379Web 101
Hasan Minhaj calls out Desi Racism and the hypocrisy of South Asians on #BlackLivesMatter
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- 234Ecology
World Environment Day: As deaths due to COVID-19 rise, experts in Kashmir say environment is healing
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take lives across the globe, reports suggest that the environment is healing due to reduced human...
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Apple trees chopped down mysteriously in Anantnag, orchardists say ‘years of love and labour destroyed’
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As Srinagar goes into lockdown, tourism in JK set to begin from July 14, guidelines issued
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- 103Conflict
Moro people know hardships of Kashmiris, India not eager to grant autonomy, says CM Bangsamoro Murad Ebrahim
Srinagar: The Chief Minister of Bangsamoro – an autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao in...
- 320Health
COVID: 11-day-old baby dies due to respiratory failure, toll mounts to 179 in JK
Srinagar: An eleven day old baby from Kulgam died at a hospital in Srinagar...
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First time since 1948, no official function on Martyrs’ Day in Kashmir
Srinagar: According to the list of gazette holidays issued by the government, there will...
- 70Harassment
Comedian hurled with rape threats and abuses over allegedly ‘disrespecting’ Shivaji
A content creator by the name of Shubham Mishra, threatened the comedian with gangrape...
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Admin asks visitors to vacate Pahalgam ‘within two hours’, announcements made on loudspeakers
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‘If people will not obey the advisories we will be forced to impose the...
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Braving situational strife and market mess which collectively put a lock on his shop...
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Days after resumption of air travel, Kashmiris stuck away from their home continue to...
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710Healthcare
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665Extremism
Journalist Rana Ayyub receives death and rape threats ‘for speaking on Kashmir’
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645Censorship
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597Human Rights
UN writes to India for investigating ‘ongoing human rights violations’ in Kashmir after removal of Article 370
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561Jammu & Kashmir
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India’s Covid-19 tally jumps to 1,98,706 after 8,171 new cases were reported in 24 hours
India’s tally of the Covid-19 cases jumped to 198,706 after 8,171 new cases were...
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India records biggest single day jump with 7,964 COVID-19 cases, over 250 die in 24 hours
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India surpasses China’s death toll, now ‘9th worst-hit Covid-19 country’ in the world
India now has the world’s ninth worst case count for Covid-19 (coronavirus disease) as...
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The New Media Policy has been called Orwellian by international press bodies, but censorship...
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The Hindu Rashtra project of Brahman supremacy was established and successfully executed in Kashmir,...
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