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Suhail Bhat
Online Start-ups in Kashmir Hit Hard by Internet Shutdown
29 Oct 2019
“I have moved 50% of my staff to Delhi while the rest are without salaries. We are waiting for the restoration of the internet services so that we can get some revenue and pay them salaries,” said…
Suhail Bhat
Kashmir: Students Allege Govt of Using Them as ‘Cannon Fodder’
28 Oct 2019
The decision to conduct the J&K board examinations, which are to commence from October 29, has been taken despite the continuing “atmosphere of fear and unpredictability”.
Suhail Bhat
BSNL Linemen Amid Clampdown in Kashmir
16 Sep 2019
People camp outside their homes, offer goodies and even pay them extra money to get their landlines restored. But this undue attention has become a burden for some of them.
Suhail Bhat
Tourism Comes to Grinding Halt in Kashmir
02 Sep 2019
In a region where nearly one third of the population is associated with the tourism industry, Kashmir is seeing the footfall of the tourists disappearing and people associated with the industry have…
Suhail Bhat
‘We Have Been Pushed Back to the Stone Age’: Kashmiri Residents Resort to Notes, Letters
26 Aug 2019
Some have been forced to cancel wedding invitations, while people are thronging to telephone exchanges to get landline connections or revive old ones, amid the clampdown on other communication…
Suhail Bhat, Sagrika Kissu
‘Meaningful’ Dialogue: Is GoI Ready to Listen to Kashmiris?
28 Jun 2019
While many Kashmiris favour a dialogue to end the cycle of violence, Home Minister’s Amit Shah’s silence on Hurriyat’s offer has raised doubts on whether the Centre is keen at all.
Suhail Bhat
Torture in Kashmir: Rights Groups Release Report, Seek UN Probe
20 May 2019
The report documents 432 cases where government forces subjected locals to waterboarding, beatings with iron rods and leather belts and electric shocks to genitals.
Sagrika Kissu, Suhail Bhat
Bandipora Rape Case: Protests Erupt In Kashmir, Family Cries For Justice
13 May 2019
The valley observed a shutdown on May 13, as protesters demanded the harshest punishment for the rapist of the three-year-old girl.
Suhail Bhat
‘Custodial Death’ of School Principal Angers Kashmir
20 Mar 2019
Magisterial probe ordered, political parties blame ‘repressive’ approach of Centre for vulnerability of youth in J&K.
Sagrika Kissu, Suhail Bhat
The Farce That Democracy Has Become in Kashmir
12 Mar 2019
The locals in Kashmir region, who are disillusioned by the ruling party at the Centre, seem to believe that the cloak of democracy has fallen.