Many have said the charges are harsh and unjustified, and could ruin students' futures.

Detention, questioning and harassment continues to be the norm for journalists in the Valley, as the space for critical reporting shrinks.

Journalists say the violence only stopped after they sat down on the road in protest.

Most schools in the Kashmir valley tend to avoid functions on August 15 and January 26 due to heightened security on the ground and fears of vulnerability. 

There were also allegations that the police broke open locked shops on Thursday.

According to the BJP, 17 of its party workers have been killed in Kashmir since last year.

Unable to earn their livelihoods since August 2019 and dependent on overworked NGOs for survival, life for most trans people in the union territory is a kind of hell.

The portals had published reports that said the army had ‘forced’ a religious school to hold a Republic Day function. Though the defence force calls this ‘baseless’, the two portals stand by their story.

Three TV reporters were allegedly manhandled and detained while covering the District Development Council polls.

Since last week, structures have been demolished in remote areas of Pahalgam like Lidroo, Mamal, Khelan, Movera and Rangward, where nomads make temporarily homes.

The scheme, which focused on imparting literacy to adults, was shut without the employees being given any notice.

The assailants are from Lashkar-e-Taiba and The Resistant Front, police say.  

The Srinagar office of Kashmir Times, of which Bhasin is executive editor, was sealed on Monday.

Summoned to the police station because his story carried an incorrect photo of the cyber cell's office, Auqib Javeed was berated by a senior officer for 'fake news'. On their part, the police have denied engaging in "any excesses".

Kamran Yousuf said he was thrashed by more than six members of security forces near the site of a gunfight at Marwal village in southern Pulwama district.

News of players being arrested under an anti-terror law for sporting jerseys in memory of Syed Ruban has stunned locals and kept them off the grounds.

Nihaan was excited about accompanying his father and uncle to town. Within hours, he became another victim of the never-ending violence in J&K.

Owais Ahmad's family alleges that security forces shot him with pellet guns on May 22 after a clash erupted in the area between the youth and security forces over a door-to-door search operation.

Most men are hiding, the women are terrified of more raids and the police say allegations of vandalisation are baseless.