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Persecuted in Purola

The Uttarakhand government is covering up its governance failures by stirring the communal pot and creating urban legends of love jehad and land jehad

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The nowhere people of Tughlakabad

The recent demolitions in Delhi’s Tughlakabad show yet again how migrant labourers are routinely deprived of even the right to shelter.

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A protesting ASHA worker shouts a slogan during a demonstration at Pattan in Baramulla in November 2020

ASHA workers in distress across Jammu and Kashmir

Over 13,500 women community health workers engaged under the National Health Mission in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir risk life and limb to

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Jammu fights back: Economic policies of the Union Territory slammed

The economic policies of the Union Territory administration in Jammu come in for severe criticism from traders, small businesses, industrialists, lawy

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Graffiti at the Jamia Millia Islamia University against the the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register, in New Delhi on February 15, 2020.

Poetically defiant

Regime after regime has clamped down on anti-establishment poetry, but the Narendra Modi government in the last seven years has sought to demonise art

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Patients waiting outside the COVID-19 facility of the Chest Diseases Hospital in Jammu on May 8.

Amid a surge of COVID cases in Jammu, the Union territory is facing a shortage of oxygen and vaccines

The daily death toll due to COVID-19 is rising in the Jammu area, but the administration of the Union Territory seems to be preoccupied more with cont

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Persons with disabilities, such as this man in Guwahati, are at a heightened risk of poverty in the absence of any support offered by the Central government in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Persons with disabilities face double whammy of inaccessibility and official apathy in the pandemic

Even as two reports on the impact of the pandemic on people with disabilities point out cracks in the system, disability rights advocates complain abo

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A view of Karmara village in Haveli tehsil of Poonch district.

Beyond the ceasefire in Jammu & Kashmir

The prolonged conflict and ceasefire violations along the Line of Control have left several families in the border villages scarred for life, and help

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Anuradha Bhasin, executive editor of 'Kashmir Times'.

Kashmir Times: Where the mind is without fear…

The sealing of the Kashmir Times office is the latest in the series of attacks on the 66-year-old English daily published from Kashmir for its bold an

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At a news stand during restrictions in Srinagar in September 2019.

Region of unfreedom

The new media policy in Jammu and Kashmir seeks to kill journalism in the troubled region where the local press continues to be in a state of numbness

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A Bakarwal family migrating to Kashmir from Jammu along with its herd near Kalakote in Rajouri district on May 4. (Above) Naksha Bibi.

The caravan waits

Denied permits and transportation and facing boycott over coronavirus conspiracy theories, the pastoral Gujjar and Bakarwal communities of Jammu and K

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