‘Our sister communities like Gujjar-Bakarwaals, Changpas of Ladakh and Gaddies of Himachal Pradesh are already enjoying their rights under the Scheduled Tribe list of 1991 but our community has been neglected for last several decades’
‘We’ve been crippled and virtually rendered as beggars, as even the most generous estimates put the Lassipora Industrial Estate’s losses at around fifty thousand crores since 2019.’
‘The report will act as an eye-opener for foreign countries and will also substantiate the Ministry of External Affairs’ stance in motivating these countries to end their travel advisories for Kashmir.’
At the dinnertime when a mysterious blast went off in one of the homes in Handwara hamlet, it left behind a pile of bleeding bodies and a question: ‘What triggered the blast?’
Pertinently, last year, 449 cases of kidnapping of women to compel them for marriage have also been registered. The shocking data has also revealed that 1744 cases of assault on women with intent to outrage modesty were also registered in J&K.
Even as the curb-stricken campuses have resumed their classwork in Kashmir, those living on mountains and meadows are still following the rugged routine that kept them going in the last three lockdown years.
The designs on the walls of the Alhambra in Spain to the Selimiye Mosque in Konya or, closer home, the Khanqah-e-Moula are visual evidence of the infinite design opportunities that are contained in simple geometric forms, made possible with elementary tools.
In the backdrop of the recent eco-city announcement, the prevailing picture is only vindicating the global report terming Srinagar as one of the dirtiest cities in the world.
The square bearing the name of a saint has become a victim of the reckless name-calling over the years thus leaving the locals anguished and annoyed at the “new identity”.
Battling chronic ailments and house captivity for years, the top Hurriyat leader finally breathed his last at the age of 92. His passing became one of the hushed political farewells of Kashmir.
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