The story of three men united by their fever-pitch resentment towards Rhea Chakraborty, and their anger and grief at the death of a Bollywood star A picture posted on a popular Facebook group shows actor Rhea Chakraborty next to a coronavirus illustration. “Which virus is more dangerous?” shouts the text on the image. The caption says: “2020 worst […]

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The Supreme Court banned the two-finger test in 2013, but states like J&K still haven’t adopted the Centre’s new guidelines It’s a cold February day and it’s a cold table. Sixteen-year-old Abda is asked to lie down on it. She must do as she’s told. There are people standing around her. One person rolls her […]

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Also, victim has been subjected to the violative two-finger test during medical examination On April 21, at 4 pm, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) submitted the chargesheet in the Kulgam sex racket case at the Chief Judicial Magistrate court in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. The case pertains to a 16-year-old girl, Abda*, who had been […]

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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 been kidnapped, drugged and raped multiple times, […]

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The wife of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru says she had suspected her husband’s involvement A small cluster of houses stand hidden behind Gulnarg Park, Sopore. The last house, a quaint brick house, stands alone, overlooking a meadow. A quiet stream flows along the side and a metal bunker with security forces inside keep a […]

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ENTRY INTO KASHMIR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES IS VERY STRESSFUL FOR ASPIRANTS. THE PROCESS HAS LASTED FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS PLAGUED WITH ERRORS, CONFUSION, COURT CASES, AND DEATH OF DREAMS “Some of my friends are on the verge of suicide,” reveals a woman aspiring to join the Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS), and preparing to sit for […]

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