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I covered Op Sindoor. This is what it’s like to be on the ground when sirens played on TV

I’ve been reporting from the ground for five years. I’ve covered elections, protests, accidents, communal violence and the environment. I’ve waited outside police stations and hospitals, slept on station floors, travelled overnight to places that stop making headlines within a day. Still, this year felt heavier. Some assignments ended when…

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‘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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Indigo: Why India is held hostage by one airline

It was October 1988. Me, my mother, and my younger sister were supposed to fly in an Indian Airlines flight, from Ranchi, in what was then Bihar, to Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, with an overnight stop at Delhi, to attend my father’s younger brother’s wedding.

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‘Is my house the only illegal one?’: Outrage after journalist’s home flattened in Jammu

A demolition drive in Jammu has come under fire after authorities tore down the home of journalist Arfaz Ahmad Daing – the only structure targeted in the area that day. Daing alleges the action was carried out without prior notice and was a message to journalists who refuse to “toe…

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‘Journalism not a crime’: DIGIPUB slams raid against Kashmir Times

The DIGIPUB News India Foundation has expressed “deep concern” and strongly condemned the reported "raids and escalating harassment” of the Kashmir Times by the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s State Investigation Agency (SIA). “Targeting an independent and credible news organisation in this manner is a direct assault on press freedom,” it…

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‘No staff, defunct office’: Kashmir Times editor on ‘bizarre’ charges, ‘bid to silence’

When Anuradha Bhasin first saw a video circulating on social media on Thursday – showing police personnel milling outside the Jammu office of the Kashmir Times – she didn’t quite know what she was looking at. There had been no official communication. No staffer had called her. She has none…

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As J&K officials search Jammu office, Kashmir Times points to ‘bid to silence’

The Jammu and Kashmir Police’s State Investigation Agency has carried out searches at the head office of Kashmir Times newspaper in Jammu.

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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

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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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India suffered Rs 24,000 crore losses this monsoon: Do we have a plan to fix this?

This monsoon season has brought severe destruction to India’s northern states. There were cloudbursts in Uttarakhand, flash floods in Himachal Pradesh, landslides in Jammu and Kashmir, and Punjab saw its worst flood since 1988.

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At least 11 dead after intense rainfall and landslide devastate Himalayan region

Five people reported missing in Jammu

The Independent UK

‘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

Flash floods leave 32 dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir as over 150,000 are displaced in Punjab

Indian media reports say intense rains have lashed parts of Pakistan and India and triggered flash floods in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s Jammu region, leaving at least 32 people dead and many missing following a landslide on a Hindu pilgrimage route

The Independent UK

Photos show people fleeing flooding in Kashmir after weeks of intense rain in the region

Prolonged monsoon rains this season have badly battered South Asia. Rising waters sent people fleeing from their homes in the Indian-administered Jammu area in Kashmir, which is split between Pakistan and India and claimed by both sides.

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‘Few bunkers, poor health infra’: Villages caught in the crossfire

With every spike in India-Pakistan tensions, it’s the population along the Line of Control that suffers most. In the most recent flare-up, at least 16 civilians were killed by Pakistani shelling in Jammu and Kashmir, with the highest toll in Poonch district. Several villages in Rajouri and Poonch also came…

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One month on, Pahalgam terrorists remain missing. So do answers to J&K security challenge

One month after the Pahalgam attack claimed 26 lives and brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war, the manhunt for the perpetrators remains frustratingly inconclusive. Operation Sindoor may have delivered tactical victories elsewhere, but in the scenic valleys where tourists usually felt safe, a different reality seems to…

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Was protocol violated in BSF braveheart’s funeral?

The Bihar government has drawn flak over the funeral of BSF sub-inspector Mohammed Imteyaz, a 53-year-old paratrooper from Bihar’s Saran district who was killed in action along the RS Pura sector of Jammu and Kashmir on May 10.

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Wages pending, exams postponed: Migrants recall panic and uncertainty after leaving Jammu

As the Udhampur–New Delhi special train pulled into the capital late Saturday night, its passengers stepped onto the platform not just with bags and belongings, but with exhaustion and uncertainty.

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‘Shelling is our reality’: Evacuees in Jammu camps on attacks, bunkers, and livelihoods

Note: This story was reported three hours before the ceasefire was announced on May 10.

The Independent UK

India and Pakistan ceasefire in jeopardy with blasts heard hours after deal announced

Donald Trump had announced agreement after intense US-led talks

International Business Times

Panicked Indians Flee Kashmir City On Special Train

Desperate crowds fought Saturday to board a special train ferrying people out of Jammu in Indian Kashmir and away from the worst fighting with Pakistan in decades.

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‘I thought I was going to die’: Panic in Jammu city as defused Pakistani shells hit homes

On the night of May 9, Shweta was struggling to sleep.

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Another soldier killed in action in cross-border firing in J&K

Another army soldier has been killed in action during cross-border firing by Pakistani forces along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

Al Jazeera

‘Missiles in skies’: Panic in Indian frontier cities as war clouds gather

Millions in cities near the border in India and Indian-administered Kashmir are on edge amid blackouts, explosions.

The Independent UK

India conducts mock drills across country during escalating tensions with Pakistan

India conducted mock drills across the country on Wednesday (7 May) after a deadly terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir killed 26 people on 22 April.

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