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Sunday, May 5, 2024
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Crime

Offering a detailed reportage of the diverse crimes taking place in the society, this section is a window to detailed narratives about some serious crimes that were committed in Jammu and Kashmir since 2009 and made news.

A poster encouraging women to call the helpline number displayed at OSC's office in Srinagar.

Repairing Stressed Relations

Since 2018 summer, an all India NGO is working in Srinagar and collaborates with civil and police administration in managing help to the people,...

Driven to Death!

With an alarming rise in domestic violence cases women find themselves in a fix between reporting abuse and saving their marriages. Muntaha Hafizi reports...

The Lethpora Story

In an investigation that took more than 28 rims of paper to be written upon, the federal investigator has finally seven of the 19...
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Killer’s last decade

Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...

A Monstrous Murder

After raising two sons in his more than three decades of marriage, an old man is strangulated to death and thrown into Dal lake....

WHO WAS YOUSUF SHAH?

The man, Syed Yousuf Shah, whose death in custody triggered a political storm in Jammu and Kashmir, had a very humble beginning. His personal...

Deviating Clergy – A challenge

Involvement of a number of members from Muslim clergy in passion crimes across Kashmir has brought the highly respected role in Muslim society to a disrepute. P...

Decimated By Drugs

Talking about drug abuse is the new fashion statement of the socio-political elite, media and academia. The menace has reached a level that now...

Virtual Kashmir: Honeytraps, Sextortions, Frauds

The virtual Kashmir is facing music as the upsurge in crimes keeps the cyber police too busy. Cases of fraud, bullying, hacking, extortion, honey...

Murder Most Foul

More than 18 months after a 9-year-old boy was abducted and brutally murdered in Gulgam, the police have yet to identify the killers, reports...

Memon Memories

As Yakub Memon’s hanging triggered a debate across India, various Kashmiris knowing Mumbai’s Tiger after 1993 refreshed their memories telling Bilal Handoo how Delhi...

Defending Data

Almost on daily basis, there is at least one report about some major data leak, mostly hacked by techies and put on sale. With...
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The Killer Heroin

Gone are the days when Heroin was just passing through Kashmir. Now its use is gradually overtaking other drugs and the economically well-off are...

Kashmir’s Moon Owners

by Raashid Andrabi On Shahid Yaqoob Khan’s birthday, Srinagar-born Hina Bashir was looking for something special to gift her husband. She is a programme coordinator...

Facebooked

Social network sites are here, long before we realised. It could not have been announced more loudly than a murder over a virtual friendship.  Shazia Yousuf anlayses the phenomenon.