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Geneva, June 02 (KMS): The highly-infectious COVID-19 variant first detected in India threatens to rapidly spread in the sub-region, including among refugees, the UN refugee agency has said as it warned of vaccine shortages in the Asia-Pacific region, including for asylum-seekers. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Andrej …

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan On 12 April, as India registered another 169,000 new Covid-19 cases to overtake Brazil as the second-worst hit country, three million people gathered on the shores of the Ganges. They were there, in the ancient city of Haridwar in the state of Uttarakhand, to take …

New Delhi, June 02 (KMS): An Indian court has ruled that a local government administration in Uttar Pradesh filed a “false and unfounded” police report against eight Muslim leaders who had opposed the “illegal” demolition of their mosque. The bulldozing of the Masjid Gareeb Nawaz Al Maroof in May, carried …

Srinagar June 02 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) has said that a single day shutdown costs Rs 150 crore loss to Kashmir Valley. Kashmir Economic Alliance Chairman Muhammad Yaseen Khan during his visit to Handwara Vegetable Market to offer sympathies to the …

Srinagar, June 02 (KMS): Coinciding Global Day of Parents falling on June 01, Farida Qayoom, a mother in the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) remembers her son, who was killed by police in custody in 2010. Living in a modest house on the northern side of the capital …

Srinagar, June 02 (KMS): Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s economy has borne the brunt of three back to back lockdowns since abrogation of article 370 in August 2019 resulting in the loss of whopping Rs 45000 Crore. The month-long lockdown from April 30 to May 30 this year has …

#SikhsWillNeverForget1984 Islamabad, June 01 (KMS): The storming of the Golden Temple, the Sikhs’ holiest shrine in Amritsar, India, in June 1984 is an ugly scar on the so-called Indian democracy while the victims of Blue Star Operation and those killed in the ensuing bloody chain of anti-Sikh riots are still …

Adil Rashid June 01, 2021 In the first week of May, Qazi Idrees, a 29-year-old government employee, was making desperate calls to get a ventilator supported ICU bed for his father, Qazi Aftaab. Aftaab was admitted at JVC Medical College and Hospital in Srinagar, which was severely understaffed and under-resourced. …

Srinagar (KMS): The United Nations Rapporteurs have disclosed that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader, Waheed Parra, in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), was subjected to abusive interrogations after his arrest by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which lasted from 10 to 12 hours at a time. In a …

APHC urges UNGA to monitor grim situation of IIOJK Srinagar, May 29 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and other Hurriyat leaders and organizations have deplored that India is using rape of Kashmiri women as a weapon of war to humiliate the Kashmiris …