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Proposed Awantipora-Shopian Rail Line Raises Livelihood Concerns Among Fruit Growers
“If these trees fall, an entire way of life falls with them,” say farmers who don’t want railway line but their orchards
India-Pakistan Politicians Urge Talks, SAARC Revival, Easier Visas in Online Dialogue
Dr Farooq Abdullah, Farhatullah Babar, and Manoj Jha joined civil society voices in calling for people-to-people contact, trade, and cultural exchanges, while w...
Snow Droughts in the Himalaya: A Blaring Alarm for Millions
For environmental journalists, drought has always been a summer story. But a silent ‘snow drought’ is unfolding in the Himalaya with grave repercussions for bot...
Manzoor Alam, key Muslim intellectual, dies at 80
Scholar, institution builder, and a driving force behind the Sachar Committee research, leaves a lasting legacy in minority studies
Three Months After Flash Floods, Displaced Families Still Live in the Open
Flood-hit tribal families in Sunjwan, a village on the outskirts of Jammu city, continue to live in unsafe tents amid wildlife threats, disrupted education, liv...
Pakistan administered Kashmir 2025: Timeline of Protests, Govt Change and Negotiations
From Kashmir Solidarity Day rallies to mass protests, security deployments, information blackouts, and a late-year change in government, 2025 unfolds as a turbu...
Jammu and Kashmir in 2025: Pahalgam killings, India-Pak war, and bruising politics
Attack in Pahalgam drives a sharp security escalation and a tense India-Pakistan standoff, while the Omar Abdullah government faces a yearlong storm over reserv...
India Records Nearly 15,000 Free Speech Violations in 2025, Including Nine Killings
From gag orders and censorship to attacks, Free Speech Collective notes the targeting of journalists, activists, academics and artists involves physical attacks...
28,000 Cases Pending Before AFT, Backlog Increasing Incrementally
28,000 Cases Pending Before AFT, Backlog Increasing Incrementally
Three Months After Rains and Land Sinking, Reasi Families Remain Homeless
Even as land sinking leaves villages unsafe and its residents without their homes and lands, they are yet to get support
After touring J&K, CCG flags ‘dangerous drift’ and growing disillusionment
In their 11th fact-finding report after touring Jammu and Kashmir, members of the Concerned Citizens Group say fear, anger and disempowerment have intensified u...
Vast Gap in Waqf Records Leaves Key Questions Unanswered
Jammu and Kashmir shows 7,240 missing entries as national mismatch crosses 3.55 lakh
Abolished on paper, alive in reality: Bonded labour persists in India
Experts argue that the persistence of bonded labour reflects structural inequalities, poverty, caste, lack of formal work, and deep-rooted discrimination, which...
Gilgit Baltistan Diary: Election Bugle Raises Stakes in High Mountains
As the Gilgit Baltistan region completes the tenure of its third assembly, elections are once again approaching under the same provisional administrative struct...
Ladakh's Financial Powers Centralized Further Amid Political Unrest
Central Approval Mandate for All Projects Adds Bureaucratic Hurdles to Ladakh’s Development Amid Unrest.
Kashmir Times Office Raid Widely Condemned
Press Freedom Concerns Mount, Civil Society Groups See Action as unwarranted and motivated.
PCI Warns of Sweeping Powers Under New Data Law
Journalist bodies say Digital Personal Data Protection Rules could be weaponised against the media.
Journalist Nidhi Jamwal Wins 2025 Laadli Media Award for Her Kashmir Times Article on Women and Climate Resilience
The winning entry discusses how rural women transform their fields, forests, and villages into living laboratories of climate resilience, pioneering lessons in ...
Press Freedom Organisations, Journalists, Activists, Political Groups Condemn Police Raid on Kashmir Times
Widespread outrage over operating environment for journalists in Kashmir and the broader implications for democratic discourse in the region.
SIA Raids: Another Attempt to Silence Us
‘Kashmir Times’ statement following reported raids by State Investigative Agency (SIA) on its office