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‘Lawless law’: How the Public Safety Act has become a tool of repression in Kashmir

The officials issuing detention orders under the Public Safety Act in Jammu and Kashmir are mere rubber stamps. This is a common refrain among rights activists and lawyers fighting PSA cases. They argue that this law has been misused by the state ever since it received the governor’s assent on…

Newslaundry · Sep 23, 2019

Daily Dose Ep 160: Maharashtra and Haryana elections, #Kashmir and more

In this episode of Daily Dose, Gaurav Sarkar brings you the latest developments from Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, and more.

Newslaundry · Sep 21, 2019

Greater Kashmir journalist detained, his family says they have not been informed why

At the “Media Facilitation Centre” in Srinagar’s Sarovar Portico, three glum faces await the arrival of Rohit Kansal, Jammu and Kashmir’s Principal Secretary of Planning. The three individuals are the family members of 28-year-old Irfan Amin Malik, a Tral-based journalist working for Greater Kashmir, the largest circulated daily in Kashmir. 

Newslaundry · Aug 15, 2019

TV Newsance Episode 16: Modi Ki Baat, Modi Ke Saath

There’s news, there’s sense and there’s nuisance. This show is all about that last bit. Kyunki thoda pagalpan bhi zaroori hai. This week, Narendra Modi met Prasoon Joshi and it got Rahul Shivshankar of Times Now a little too excited. Shivshankar was bowled over by how ‘unprecedented’, ‘unscripted’ and amazing…

Newslaundry · Apr 21, 2018

PDP MLA Majeed Padder responds to allegations on the Kulgam ‘sex racket’

While the candle flames of protesters seeking justice for the eight-year-old Kathua girl continue to burn strong, another horrific case of rape was unearthed in Jammu and Kashmir. On April 18, Newslaundry published a story highlighting a sex racket in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district where the victim said Peoples Democratic…

Newslaundry · Apr 20, 2018

Exclusive: From J&K, another horror story of rape and intimidation

It took three months for the nation’s conscience to wake up to the grisly rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua, Jammu. Around the same time as when the Bakerwal girl’s body was recovered in January, another minor girl from Kulgam, Kashmir, came out with her story: she had…

Newslaundry · Apr 18, 2018

The tragedy and politics of #KathuaCase, illustrated

Cartoonists and artists from Kashmir were not unaffected by the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl. According to reports, the motive behind the crime was to drive away the nomadic Bakerwal community from Kathua that is about 50 km from Jammu. The illustrations and cartoons highlighted the gruesome crime, and also…

Newslaundry · Apr 15, 2018