An FIR against People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader Iltija Mufti over a social media post has brought into sharp focus a familiar faultline in Jammu and Kashmir: the politics of language, layered with questions of identity, administration, and legality.
The Jammu and Kashmir government’s large-scale outsourcing of jobs has sparked concern among unemployed youth, who say shrinking public recruitment is closing off already limited opportunities.
A year after the attack in Pahalgam left 26 people dead, India and Pakistan have engaged in several back-channel talks amid an improved security situation in Kashmir
Incident brings renewed scrutiny to vigilante violence, administrative curbs, and the politics of bovine laws.
Surveillance by security agencies has increased in Kashmir, with NGOs subjected to raids, while business establishments have been warned of legal action for failure to install the CCTVs.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has urged people to follow Hindu cultural practices like organising weekly Aarti
Orders to West Asia from the Kashmir handicrafts sector, which has been reeling from the impact of the tariff hike imposed by the US and the Ukraine war, have been halted due to the US-Israel-Iran war.
Celebratory processions were carried out in Shia-dominated areas of Kashmir, including in the districts of Ganderbal, Srinagar, Baramulla, and Budgam.
Under Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, preserving past Hindu and Buddhist sites has received a vigorous push in Kashmir.
The J&K Home Department has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the death of a man from Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district after his family alleged that he was killed in a fake encounter.
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