Tag: JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Recent reports by the United Nations point towards gross human rights violations in Kashmir and call for an exhaustive and independent inquiry.

Protests in Srinagar have grown over time as the Centre has imposed a ban on civilian traffic on the Jammu and Kashmir National Highway in order to allow easy passage of Amarnath pilgrims.

The state government in Jammu and Kashmir has stopped giving advertisements to the popular English dailies Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader, major English and Urdu newspapers in the state carried an empty front page to protest against the state’s decision.

POLITICS The ambit of the “disturbed areas” under section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), 1958 has been increased, after the central government’s decision to extend the jurisdiction of the state to three more districts of the state and further also extending its eight police stations to the areas bordering Assam

Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society has release a report that states that 318 children have died in conflict-related violence in Jammu and Kashmir over the past few years. Does childhood have a meaning in such disturbed moments?

Mechanisms which work towards the betterment of individuals from the lowest ranks of the social order are crucial for any effective nation-state. Subsidized food and basic infrastructure are central to this context, here the author articulates about the plight of Jammu and Kashmir.