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Anees Zargar
COVID-19: People in Kashmir Flout Distancing Guidelines Despite Increasing Cases
07 Jul 2020
The administrative laxity, government measures like introduction of domicile laws and announcement for re-opening tourism sector has led to the complacency among the residents.
Newsclick Team
J&K: Mining Without Environmental Clearance
04 Jul 2020
After securing a majority of the mining contracts in Kashmir, the non-local contractors have already started their operations at various mineral blocks.
Anees Zargar
Death, Injury, and Trauma: Life of Children in Conflict
04 Jul 2020
Srinagar: The picture of a four-year-old sitting atop his lifeless grandfather as he lied on the roadside—shot dead—in North Kashmir’s Sopore area is a manifestation of the horrors childr
Sagrika Kissu
Jammu: Ten Months on, PDD Workers Still Await Minimum Wage Act
04 Jul 2020
A person employed as a casual labourer is entitled to receive a meagre amount of Rs 225 as their daily wage. The Minimum Wage Act, yet to be implemented in J&K, promises an amount of Rs 520 on a…
Sagrika Kissu
COVID-19 in J&K: Deaths Cross 100, Denial by Cremation Grounds Leave Victims’ Families Aggrieved
01 Jul 2020
Baldev Singh, chairman of the cremation ground at Gandhi Nagar, has written to LG Murmu, after a Sikh was denied permission to be cremated but without any response so far.
Anees Zargar
J&K: New Contractors Begin Extraction on Mineral Blocks Without Environmental Clearance
30 Jun 2020
Scores of heavy extraction vehicles deployed at Nallah Rambiara in Lassipora area have been extracting stones, boulders and other construction material for nearly a month now, according to local…
Anees Zargar
Geelani Parts Ways with Hurriyat Amalgam, Crumbling the Separatist Bloc
29 Jun 2020
Geelani, who has been confined to his Hyderpora residence in Srinagar for over a decade, lashed out at the Hurriyat (G) members who were not arrested as the government moved to abrogate Article 370…
THE LEAFLET
SC Issues Notice to J&K Govt on a Plea by J&K HC Bar Association President Challenging his Detention Under PSA
29 Jun 2020
According to his plea, on August 8, he was taken to Central Jail, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, without any prior notice of intimation, where he was kept in solitary confinement.
Anees Zargar
99% Habeas Corpus Filed in J&K HC Since August 2019 Pending
27 Jun 2020
The representation was submitted by the bar association, which has as many as 1,500 members, on June 25 apprising the apex court of various problems they are facing in the union territory since the…
Anees Zargar
J&K Power Department Targeted by Hackers, 4 Database Servers Affected
26 Jun 2020
The database consists of consumer data, revenue and billing data which puts crucial information of consumers in the region at risk.