New Delhi, May 27 (KMS): Indian energy demand is taking a big hit as Covid-19 runs rampant across the country. But uncertainty around when the virus wave will subside and the lack of a unified government response has left the oil industry in the dark as to how quickly consumption …
Read More »At least five dead as another cyclone batters India
Calcutta, May 27 (KMS): At least five people died Wednesday as howling winds and waves the height of double-decker buses pelted eastern India. Barely a week after Cyclone Tauktae claimed at least 155 lives in western India, cyclone Yaas has forced the evacuation of more than 1.5 million people in …
Read More »Covid-19: Has India’s deadly second wave peaked?
New Delhi, May 27 (KMS): India has recorded 26 million Covid-19 cases – second only to the US. It is the new epicentre of the global pandemic. The second wave in recent weeks has overwhelmed the healthcare system, leaving hospitals struggling to cope and critical drugs and oxygen in short supply. …
Read More »Vaccine inequality in India sends many falling through gaps
New Delhi, May 27 (KMS): As the coronavirus tears through India, night watchman Sagar Kumar thinks constantly about getting vaccines for himself and his family of five amid critical shortages of shots in the country. But even if he knew how to get one, it wouldn’t be easy. The main …
Read More »Feature: The Ill fruits of demographic engineering in Kashmir
How authorities in IIOJK axed apple orchards during one winter night, leaving a community broke and homeless Ahmer Khan and Shoaib Mir Fayaz Ahmad is angry. His only source of income was destroyed when the Forest Department in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) cut down tens of thousands …
Read More »Modi regime denounced for expansionist designs
Srinagar, May 26 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference and other Hurriyat leaders and organizations have condemned the forcible eviction of local Kashmiris from their ancestral land by men in uniform under the expansionist policy of the Modi-led fascist Indian government. APHC Chief …
Read More »Modi regime transmitting India variant of coronavirus to IIOJK
#NonLocalsTransportedToIIOJK Islamabad, May 26 (KMS): After failing to control the spread of India variant of COVID-19 surge in the country, Narendra Modi-led fascist government is now transporting the deadly virus to Indian illegally occupied Kashmir, putting the lives of the local people in grave danger. A report released by Kashmir …
Read More »Javaid Mir appeals HR bodies to help release IIOJK detainees
Srinagar, May 26 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat leader, Javaid Ahmed Mir, has appealed to the world human rights bodies including the UN Human Right Council to impress upon India to release all illegally detained Kashmiri Hurriyat leaders and activists lodged in different Indian jails in …
Read More »APHC denounces eviction drive by men in uniform in IIOJK
Srinagar, May 26 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has condemned the use of brute force against the Gujjar and Bakarwal communities during the eviction drive launched by the men in uniform in Shopian heights and adjacent areas. APHC Chief Organiser, Chaudhry Shaheen …
Read More »Zargar family lost almost all male members in Kashmir
Srinagar, May 26 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, India has robbed the family of renowned liberation leader Mushtaq Zargar of almost all its male members by subjecting them to enforced disappearance. On 12th April, 2021, Zahoor Ahmed Zargar, the youngest brother of Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, the sole …
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