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Bus accident in Indian-controlled Kashmir kills 21 people

A passenger bus has slid off a Himalayan highway in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing at least 21 people and injuring about 45 others

The Independent UK

4 Temples That Reappeared After Being Lost

“न हि सत्यं न च धर्मो न श्रद्धा न च साधनम्। यत्र देवालयो नास्ति तत्र नास्ति शुभं फलम्॥” This ancient Sanskrit verse reminds us that a sacred space is not just stone and architecture. A temple carries memory, devotion, and the spiritual identity of generations. Yet history shows that many…

Times Life

Tear Gas Fired as Protests Erupt in Kashmir Over Killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader

Police on Monday fired tear gas shells to disperse protesters demonstrating against the reported killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid sweeping restrictions imposed across Kashmir as a precautionary measure.

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Living in La-La Land”: India Rebukes Pakistan Over J&K at UNHRC

India on Thursday delivered a sharp rebuttal to Pakistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), dismissing Islamabad’s remarks on Jammu and Kashmir as “hallucinating” and accusing it of living in a “La-La land.”

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ABVP members enter Azim Premji University, assault student, deface campus over Kashmir event

Chaotic scenes unfolded at Azim Premji University on Tuesday, February 24, after members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) – the student wing of the RSS, barged into the campus and vandalised property over an event on state violence in Kashmir. Later in the evening, the police removed the…

Newslaundry

7 Spiritual Mahashivratri Celebrations That Show Shiva’s Divine Energy

Mahashivratri, the Great Night of Lord Shiva, is one of India’s most sacred festivals, bringing millions of devotees together each year. Celebrated on the fourteenth night of Phalguna, it represents spiritual awakening, inner transformation, and balance of energies. Devotees fast, chant “Om Namah Shivaya,” and stay awake all night, while…

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She Ran Through Thin Air and Freezing Nights: How Sufiya Sufi Beat One of the World’s Deadliest Routes

Indian ultra-runner Sufiya Sufi has just added another wild milestone to her already jaw-dropping journey. The Guinness World Records has officially recognised her for pulling off one of the toughest high-altitude runs out there - the Manali to Leh route, and doing it faster than the benchmark time. The confirmation…

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Hafta 573: Funding the ‘circus’ in Davos as the net tightens on press freedom in Kashmir

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by journalist and entrepreneur Govindraj Ethiraj.

Newslaundry

‘Systematic harassment’: J&K Police seizes phone from The Wire journalist

Last evening, officers from the Jammu and Kashmir Police seized The Wire’s Jehangir Ali’s phone from his home in Charar-i-Sharief town in Budgam district. The Wire called this action an “attempt by the Jammu and Kashmir police and administration to intimidate its correspondent, which is emblematic of the systematic harassment…

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After Sindoor, a new threat emerges: How ‘educated terror’ slipped past India’s security grid

A week after the Red Fort car blast, investigators are still piecing together an alleged white-collar terror module – one that has revived fears of “home-grown” radicalisation after years of security focus on Pakistan-based jihadi tanzeems. With several doctors among those arrested, some linked to Faridabad’s Al Falah University, the…

Newslaundry

Kashmir is focus of arrests after Delhi car blast linked to ‘terror module’

Investigators believe an explosion that killed 13 people may be linked to group operating in the disputed region

The Guardian - UK

Born in the forest: the women giving birth alone in the Kashmiri mountains

Far from hospitals, nomadic Gujjar women routinely go into labour – and die – on their herder communities’ long seasonal treks

The Guardian - UK

Photos of stray dogs in Indian-controlled Kashmir and attempts to control their population

Feroz Ahmed does not leave home for his early-morning walk without a stick. Now in his 60s, he is wary of stray dogs that live nearby, on the outskirts of Srinagar in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

The Independent UK

Kashmir’s apple farmers face Rs 2,000 cr loss as NH-44 closure strands thousands of trucks

“I don’t even have money for poison to kill myself. All my harvested apples have rotted before reaching the markets after the NH-44 was shut,” said Ezaj Ahmed, apple farmer from Anantnag district of Kashmir.

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Al Jazeera

‘Gone to waste’: Kashmir growers watch apples rot as key highway is blocked

The Kashmir region contributes almost 80 percent of India’s apples. But 4,000 trucks carrying them stand stranded.

Al Jazeera

‘Everything has been lost’: Kashmir floods, landslides kill dozens

Overflowing rivers devastate communities, prompt questions about whether lessons from past floods were ever learned.

Al Jazeera

Behind Pakistan’s repeated floods: Melting glaciers, depleted forests

Deforestation and glacial melting are the two leading causes compounding the climate crisis in the north of Pakistan.

Evening Standard

'Doomsday' floods and landslides kill more than 300 in Pakistan and Indian Kashmir with mass funerals held

One witness in Buner said he ‘saw the entire area shaking, like it was the end of the world’

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At least 56 killed after torrential rains trigger flash floods in Kashmir

Torrential rain struck Chisoti, a town in Kishtwar district in Indian-administered Kashmir, on Thursday morning.

Euronews

Death toll from Kashmir flash floods rises to at least 32, Indian disaster officials say

More than 100 people were brought to safety, while at least 50 others remain missing.

Newslaundry

Reporters Without Orders Ep 379: UP’s half encounters, govt ads in J&K dailies

This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal.

Newslaundry

India is historical, Bharat is mythical: Aatish Taseer

My parents met in Delhi in 1980. My father had just written a biography of his political idol, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; my mother was sent to interview him. That night they went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant called the House of Ming. Then they disappeared together for a week.…

Al Jazeera

‘Attack on people’s memory’: Kashmir’s book ban sparks new censorship fears

Indian officials say the books promote violence, secessionism. But critics say the move is aimed at silencing scholars.

Al Jazeera

Three suspected rebels killed in firefight in India-administered Kashmir

Indian media reports claim the men were linked to the April 22 Pahalgam attack, but there is no official confirmation.

Al Jazeera

Can India stop Pakistan’s river water — and will it spark a new war?

The decades-old Indus Waters Treaty faces its gravest challenge as India suspends it, prompting Pakistan to warn of war.

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