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Jammu and Kashmir

February 28, 2023
India Revives Civil Militia After Hindu Killings in Kashmir
By Aijaz Hussain
Village militias were first formed at the height of the militancy in the mid-1990s but were subsequently disbanded.

February 16, 2023
India’s Discovery of Lithium Reserve Triggers Hopes, Worries
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
While enthusing India’s EV sector, the news left environmentalists wary of mega-mining initiatives in the geologically and ecologically sensitive Kashmir Valley.

January 30, 2023
Indian Opposition’s ‘Unity March’ Ends in Disputed Kashmir
By Aijaz Hussain
In Kashmir, the Congress Party’s Rahul Gandhi set a conciliatory tone by expressing support for the restoration of the democratic processes and Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood.

January 30, 2023
India Escalates Water Conflict With Pakistan
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Its notice for the Indus Water Treaty’s modification comes in the wake of a series of hydroelectric projects planned on the Indus valley rivers in India.

December 17, 2022
The Gupkars: The Beleaguered Heroes of Erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir?
By Shaumik Ghosh
The Gupkar Alliance does not seem to have a promising future.

October 15, 2022
India’s Grand Plan for Kashmir Dams
By Safina Nabi
The seven new dams that India is constructing in the fragile ecology of Indian-administered Kashmir will carry a high human and environmental cost.

October 11, 2022
Kashmiri Separatist Leader Dies in Police Custody
By Associated Press
Altaf Ahmad Shah was in Delhi’s Tihar jail since 2017 in a terror funding case.

July 26, 2022
Despite Disaster, 35 Deaths, Hindu Religious Pilgrimage in Kashmir Continues
By Tarushi Aswani
Assiduously promoting the Amarnath yatra as religious tourism, the government has recklessly raised the number of pilgrims stomping through this fragile environment.

July 01, 2022
India Hindus Begin Pilgrimage in Kashmir Amid Heavy Security
By Aijaz Hussain
Officials say pilgrims face heightened threat of attacks from rebels fighting against Indian rule in Kashmir.

June 02, 2022
Life Imprisonment for Kashmiri Separatist Yasin Malik
By Sudha Ramachandran
By locking up moderate separatists New Delhi has slammed the door shut on a negotiated settlement to the Kashmir conflict.

March 27, 2022
BJP Government Uses a Movie to Incite Anti-Muslim Violence
By Kavita Chowdhury
The film, which pays little heed to facts, claims that Kashmiri Hindus were victims of genocide at the hands of Muslims.

March 17, 2022
Proposed Electoral Constituencies Evoke Anger in Kashmir Valley
By Shadab Farooq and Anzer Ayoob
The Delimitation Commission's redrawing of electoral boundaries in Jammu and Kashmir could benefit India’s Hindu nationalist BJP in this Muslim-dominated Union Territory.
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