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Owaisi has been propped up by BJP, alleges Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of propping up Asaduddin Owaisi's party AIMIM so that it enters into poll fray...

Taking Manoj Sinha’s thoughts further, it’s Kashmiris who get jobs even in Jammu

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha uses a straight bat and minces no words in articulating his thoughts. This became clear when he talked of the...

November 25 is blackest of black day in Mirpur: When Hindus paid the price of not joining Pakistan

The attacks by tribal lashkars led by Pakistani soldiers on Jammu and Kashmir ruled by Maharaja Hari Singh began on October 22. A lot...

Srinagar DM cracks the whip on lawyers’ body; its rulebook terms J and K ‘disputed territory’

Kashmir and Jammu don't have much in common by way of weather, culture, food habits or ethos either. The disparate regions were brought together...

Owaisi retort to Bhagwat: We would protest (CAA) again and again

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s remark that “some people misled our Muslim brother” on the CAA evoked a strong reaction from AIMIM...

Why some ‘rapes’ are by ‘upper-caste’ and others only by ‘men’ if accused are Muslims?

A young girl from Hathras dies after a violent attack on which the jury is still out if it was a rape. A similar...

If anything, Facebook has palpably been a Congress card: Here’s the evidence

A report appears in Wall Street Journal (WSJ). It names Ankhi Das, the policy head of Facebook in India as sympathetic to Bharatiya Janata...

For a few in the family, the Independence Day carries little meaning

A sudden call from across the border took Gian Chand by surprise. His close relatives, his uncles (Chachas), settled in Pakistan were visiting India...

To a Hindu child, Kashmir Valley even in the 70s was a nightmare

It was the summer of 1973, if my memory serves me right, when my father got his transfer orders to Srinagar. My father, working...

How erstwhile J and K discriminated for Muslims against non-Muslims

(This is the third part of the special series on J and K. Here is link to first and second pieces). The manner in which...

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