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Friday, March 29, 2024
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Public Affairs

Presidential scare

Nocturnal knocks in two Sikh villages in the north and south of the valley on the eve of Obama’s India visit created panic and raised apprehensions of a Chittisinghpora-like event. Ilham Hassan reports.

Not just a Number

More than a hundred people who died in the summer unrest may just be statistics for the authorities but not for their families. Shams...

Curfew pass for the dead

Free movement of people in streets of Kashmir has now become a luxury, as curfews become a norm. Funerals are no exception. Wasim Khalid...

Offloaded

Saudi Airlines won the first ever bid for ferrying Hajjj pilgrims ending state-owned Air India’s monopoly. However, it refused to ply from Srinagar reportedly on Pakistan’s insistence of Kashmir being a disputed territory. Iftikhar Gilani reports.

Living bunkers

The CRPF has removed16 bunkers from city as a Unified Command measure to ease off tensions in the city, but with around 400 bunkers...

Raising the stakes

The government is trying anything and everything it can to quell the current uprising and to counter Geelani’s protest calendar. The latest tug of...

Rising to the crisis

The rural hospitals received around 80 percent of the firearms injury cases during the last three months, putting their inadequate infrastructure under duress. Aliya Bashir reports.

Compounding suffering

Almost all major charities in Kashmir, working for orphans, widows and other poor, are facing a hard time as they are not receiving enough...

Keeping the light on

It has been a tough time for people manning essential services like power and water supply, as the departments have managed to run the show despite heavy odds. Haroon Mirani reports.

Homemakers on streets

Women have come out on the streets in large numbers to join protests. Aliya Bashir looks into the factors that forced homemakers on to...

On life support

The healthcare sector has been strained in the last over two months of continuous unrest, with hospitals overwhelmed by huge number of injured. Moreover, the patients requiring regular medication are at huge risk of relapsing. Aliya Bashir reports.

No takers

With state administration, except for the police, in complete paralysis, New Delhi is desperate to resume talks but are there any takers? A Kashmir...

Siege of a prayer

The Jamia Masjid has rarely been closed for Friday prayers in the last six decades. But in the last three years, the siege of...

All about RAF

Gradually Kashmir is becoming a place where all army and paramilitary wings have presence. IAF, Army, BSF, SSB, CISF, Navy and now it is...

Rage blasted

Mob fury took an ugly turn in Pampore and nearby Khrew where a police station blast claimed five lives. Khursheed Wani reports. The twin...