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‘Kashmiris have become fodder for politics’: Sajjad Lone on BJP, communalism, polls

Jammu Kashmir People’s Conference leader Sajjad Lone began his political career following in his father Abdul Ghani Lone’s footsteps of separatist politics. However, he eventually joined mainstream politics and has a strong influence in North Kashmir.

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सज्जाद लोन: “कश्मीरी बाक़ी भारत में पॉलिटिक्स का चारा बन गया है?”

जम्मू कश्मीर पीपुल्स कॉन्फ्रेंस के नेता सज्जाद लोन की इस चुनाव में उतनी चर्चा नहीं है जितनी अन्य पार्टियों के नेताओं की हो रही है. लेकिन राजनीति में कब, कौन और कितना महत्वपूर्ण हो जाएगा कहा नहीं जा सकता है. अतीत में सज्जाद लोन कश्मीर की राजनीति के एक अहम…

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The burqa paradox: Feminism’s blind spot amid patriarchal impositions

My mother was born into a traditional upper-caste, upper-middle-class family. Though her upbringing came with its share of restrictions for women, the mindset in her household was not as conservative as that of my father’s family. My father, hailing from a Peshawari lineage, grew up in a household with a…

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What’s Your Ism? Nikita Sonavane on caste origins of modern policing

What are the caste origins of words such as “rowdy” and “goonda” in the police vocabulary? Did India’s caste system help colonial anthropology? What was the role of eugenics in the creation of the country’s modern police force? How do Dalit women negotiate in the savarna-dominated judiciary? And what does…

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Ruckus outside police station, changed statements: The curious chronology of Ratlam SP’s transfer

➨ In May 2022, a local BJP leader’s nephew was booked for vandalising statues at a temple a day before Eid-ul-Fitr. Hindutva footsoldiers had tried to blame Muslims for the incident in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur district.

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Women hair and makeup artists in Malayalam cinema pay the price for speaking out

Trigger warning: Mentions of sexual harassment

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Amid jobs, inflation clamour, Jammu’s Doda divided over Article 370

Jobs, inflation, and statehood have turned out to be the biggest poll issues in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district, which has three assembly seats and around 60 percent Muslim population.

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डोडा: कंटीले तारों, भारी सुरक्षा और धार्मिक ध्रुवीकरण के बीच “डांस ऑफ डेमोक्रेसी”

जम्मू-कश्मीर में 10 साल बाद विधानसभा चुनाव हो रहा है. इन 10 सालों में यहां बहुत कुछ बदला है. धारा 370 के बाद कश्मीर घाटी क्षेत्र में स्थिरता आई लेकिन जम्मू के चिनाब घाटी क्षेत्र में हमले काफी हद तक बढ़ गए. इसमें सबसे ज्यादा प्रभावित जम्मू कश्मीर का डोडा…

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SC seeks UP govt’s reply on journalist Siddique Kappan’s plea to ease bail conditions

The Supreme Court has sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response to a petition filed by Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan seeking relaxation of a bail condition in a UAPA case that requires him to report to the state’s Hathras police station every Monday, Livelaw reported.

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Out-station students at Imphal’s IIIT-M beg to go home, college says campus is ‘very safe’

Fearing for their safety in strife-torn Manipur, students at Imphal’s Indian Institute of Information Technology-Manipur have written to the institute’s director asking permission to return to their home states.

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AAP announces that Atishi will be new CM of Delhi after Kejriwal’s resignation

Atishi Marlena will be the new Chief Minister of Delhi after the resignation of incumbent CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal.

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Pitroda apologises to India Today reporter for ‘assault’ by Cong workers amid Rahul’s US visit

Indian Overseas Congress chief Sam Pitroda has extended an apology to India Today US correspondent Rohit Sharma, who was reportedly “assaulted” by Congress workers at Dallas in Texas when he was interviewing Pitroda ahead of Rahul Gandhi’s US visit.

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‘Need for independent probe into Madhabi Buch’: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta on SEBI saga

The Hindenburg Research report alleging multiple conflicts of interest by SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch came out on August 10. Since then, many other questions have been raised about alleged improprieties. But so far, the Narendra Modi government has remained quiet on the issue, neither initiating an investigation nor action…

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भारत में अवैध रूप से प्रवेश के दौरान बांग्लादेश के चार पत्रकार गिरफ्तार

बांग्लादेश के पत्रकार मुजम्मिल बाबू, श्यामल दत्ता और महबुबूर रहमान को कथित तौर पर एक ड्राइवर के साथ उस वक्त हिरासत में लिया गया, जब वे सोमवार को मैमनसिंह में धोबौरा सीमा से अवैध रूप से भारत में प्रवेश करने की कोशिश कर रहे थे.

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Let Me Explain: Modi govt denying funds to best-performing states?

In this week's episode of Let Me Explain, TNM's Pooja Prasanna breaks down the controversy surrounding the Modi government’s alleged denial of education funds to five opposition-ruled states – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Punjab, and Delhi.

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‘Bangladesh Godi media kingpin’ among 4 held while trying to enter India illegally

Bangladesh journalists Mozammel Babu, Shyamal Dutta and Mahbubur Rahman were reportedly detained along with a driver while they were trying to enter India illegally through Dhobaura border in Mymensingh on Monday.

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Locked, unclean, little upkeep: An audit of 16 public toilets across north west, south Delhi

A leaking roof results in a pool of water in the women’s section of the public toilet on Teen Murti Marg outside the famed Pradhan Mantri Museum. The facility, maintained by the New Delhi Municipal Council, has a defunct sanitary napkin vending machine and often inconsistent water supply, especially during…

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Intrigue and independents: All the possibilities that might unfold in Jammu and Kashmir

In the 2014 assembly elections, when Jammu and Kashmir was still a state, the Bharatiya Janata Party got its highest tally of 25 out of 37 assembly seats. In 2019, the region lost its autonomy and was cleaved into two demoted union territories (Ladakh not having an elected assembly).

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From ‘jumla’ question to ‘bid to claim moral high ground’: What papers said on Kejriwal’s shocker

Elections in Delhi are due next year. But chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has demanded that they be held along with Maharashtra later this year, after he shocked many by announcing that he would step down from his post soon.

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‘What will we eat? Who will buy it?’: India’s millet boom is not helping India’s farmers

In Peeliya village, around two km off the main road in Bassi tehsil of Jaipur district, lies a 27-bigha (about 17-acre) farmland – roughly the size of Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy cricket stadium. The owner Kajodmal Sharma guides me through a mud-soaked trail, now slick and treacherous after a day of heavy…

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‘Shocked by my arrest’: PDP leader Waheed Para on media, youth, militancy

People’s Democratic Party leader Waheed ur Rehman Para, who has been the party’s youth face, was booked under the stringent UAPA in 2020 and spent two years in incarceration. Now, he is fighting the assembly poll from Pulwama.

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Engineer Rashid: Kashmir’s new leader or BJP’s new ‘pawn’?

Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has been the talk of the town ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. The Kashmiri politician, in jail for over five years in a terror funding case, won the Baramulla seat in the Lok Sabha polls with a big margin…

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इंजीनियर रसीद: कश्मीर का नया नेता या बीजेपी का नया मोहरा

इंजीनियर रसीद इन दिनों जम्मू-कश्मीर के विधानसभा चुनावों में चर्चा का एक अहम विषय बन चुके हैं. विधानसभा चुनाव से ठीक पहले मिली जमानत ने यहां का सियासी तापमान बढ़ा दिया है.

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Reporters Without Orders Ep 337: Rift within BJP in UP, Yogi vs top leadership

This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by independent journalist Sunil Kashyap.

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Violence, economic distress, detained kin: Do Kashmir’s women feel sidelined again this election?

The assembly elections have brought political excitement back to Jammu and Kashmir.

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