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SRINAGAR (AFP) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi is changing Indian Kashmir’s residency laws for the first time since 1947, in a bid to snuff out any challenge to the disputed territory belonging to India. Drawing comparisons with Israel’s “settler” tactics, Modi’s Hindu nationalist government aims to change the demographic ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine whether a community could be declared as a religious or linguistic minority on the basis of its population in a state to allow it to run institutions of its choice. A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul sought ...

NEW DELHI: Barbed wire has become synonymous with images of security cordons, especially in the context of Kashmir. But for years the Valley has been putting it to an unusual use: supplying electricity to scattered households in rural and hilly areas, a recent survey of the union territory’s (UT) ...

ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Lahore on Friday sentenced up to five years three top leaders of the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and close aides of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed on terror related charges. ATC judge Ejaz Ahmad Buttar sentenced Abdur Rehman Makki (Saeed’s brother-in-law), ...

SRINAGAR: Four terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Kiloora area of Shopian district in south Kashmir following specific information about the presence of terrorists, a police ...

SRINAGAR: Four terrorists, including a former police constable, were Friday killed in an encounter with security forces, while another surrendered, in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The former Jammu and Kashmir police constable, identified as Shakoor Parray, was the district commander of the Al-Badr outfit. Another ...

NEW DELHI: Describing terrorism as a “cancer” that afflicts humanity in the same way a pandemic does, foreign minister, S Jaishankar, slammed Pakistan on Friday saying states that have turned production of terrorists as "primary export" are also attempting to paint themselves as victims of terrorism." Delivering the Darbari ...

NEW DELHI: Terrorism is a cancer that potentially affects everyone just like the way pandemic impacts the entire humanity, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. In an address at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Jaishankar also said the global responses to terrorism and pandemic have tended ...

In some of the old documentaries and news reports, one can see how millions of people migrated from Lahore to Delhi and from Delhi to Lahore. The sepia tone images give an insight about migration during a crisis. But, those were the days after partition and probably none in ...

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