Kashmir’s famous apple orchards are under attack — from a rail line | Business and Economy

Kashmir’s famous apple orchards are under attack — from a rail line | Business and Economy

Indian-administered Kashmir – Muhammad Shafi was working in his apple orchard in October last year, in Indian-administered Kashmir, when a group of men barged in and started measuring his land without asking for his approval. When he asked the men who they were and what were they doing on his…

India’s Modi to visit Kashmir, first since special status scrapped in 2019 | Narendra Modi News

India’s Modi to visit Kashmir, first since special status scrapped in 2019 | Narendra Modi News

The visit comes ahead of India’s national election due by May, the first since the region lost its autonomy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will shortly hold a rally in the main city of Indian-administrated Kashmir, his first visit since the disputed region’s semi-autonomy was scrapped in 2019. Modi’s government stripped…

Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan re-arrested days after release | Media News

Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan re-arrested days after release | Media News

Aasif Sultan, a former editor of Kashmir Narrator magazine, has been re-arrested under ‘anti-terror’ law days, two days after his release following five years in jail. A Kashmiri journalist, who was released after spending more than five years in jail earlier this week, has been re-arrested by police in another…

Ahead of election, tension brews in Kashmir over tribal caste quotas | Indigenous Rights

Ahead of election, tension brews in Kashmir over tribal caste quotas | Indigenous Rights

Tral, Indian-administered Kashmir – Like many people from his nomadic tribal community, Bashir Ahmed Gujjar, a 70-year-old shepherd, never went to school. Poor and often on the move, formal education was not an option. Things changed for the Gujjars, his community, after the government introduced quotas for what are known…

Where ‘love transcends language’: Kashmir’s silent village | Health

Where ‘love transcends language’: Kashmir’s silent village | Health

Dadkhai, Jammu and Kashmir, India – Dressed in their finest shalwar-kameez and sporting well-trimmed moustaches, a group of men deliberate over the terms of a dowry, as the women prepare halwa with dried fruit and a pot of traditional, salty Kashmiri tea, in the adjacent kitchen. In the modest home…

Panic as Kashmir ‘survey’ seeks personal details, links with alleged rebels | Police News

Panic as Kashmir ‘survey’ seeks personal details, links with alleged rebels | Police News

Muhammad Shadab had gone to pray in his neighbourhood mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar when he was given a questionnaire by the mosque’s management. The questionnaire was part of a so-called survey by the disputed region’s police, seeking his personal details, including phone numbers of family members,…

‘Clear threat’: Kashmiris on India top court upholding removal of autonomy | Demographics News

‘Clear threat’: Kashmiris on India top court upholding removal of autonomy | Demographics News

People in Indian-administered Kashmir have reacted with fear and anger to a Supreme Court judgement upholding the government’s decision to remove the partial autonomy of India’s only Muslim-majority region. For most residents, fears of a demographic change triggered by the 2019 decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government are slowly…