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  Ambassadors alive

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 16, 2020

  THE ambassador is not dead; he is very much alive. Diplomatic services from which ambassadors are drawn are alive as well. The government of India...

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  Liberty at the government’s whim

  Suhrith Parthasarathy | Updated at 12:00am on February 14, 2020

  FUNDAMENTAL rights, we have been repeatedly been told, do not exist in silos. The values inherent in the rights to equality, freedom of expression and...

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  Muslim world politics

  | Updated at 12:00am on February 10, 2020

  THE Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is holding a preparatory meeting of its senior officials in Jeddah for the 47th session of the council of foreign...

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  Destroying Kashmir

  AG Noorani | Updated at 12:00am on February 09, 2020

  FOR 70 years, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its political departments the Jana Sangh (founded in 1951) and its successor the BJP (now in power)...

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  India ends internet blackout in Kashmir

  Agence France-Presse . Srinagar | Updated at 12:59am on January 26, 2020

  Indian authorities on Saturday restored internet in Indian Kashmir after a five-and-a half-month blackout but maintained a block on social media sites. Prime minister Narendra...

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  Five more Kashmir leaders released

  New Age Desk | Updated at 12:23am on January 18, 2020

  Three former legislators are among five politicians released by the Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday as part of an ongoing exercise to free detainees...

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  Rough weather kills 130 in Pakistan, Afghanistan

  Agence France-Presse. Islamabad, Pakistan | Updated at 10:25pm on January 14, 2020

  Avalanches, flooding and harsh winter weather has killed more than 130 people across Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent days, officials said Tuesday, as authorities struggled...

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  Indian police officer held for helping Kashmir extremists

  Agence France-Presse . Srinagar | Updated at 01:31am on January 13, 2020

  A decorated Indian officer has been arrested for helping to transport rebel extremists in Kashmir, the police chief of the restive and highly-militarised Himalayan province...

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  India top court orders review of longest internet shutdown in Kashmir

  New Age Desk | Updated at 01:02am on January 11, 2020

  India’s supreme court has asked the government to review the suspension of internet services in Indian-administered Kashmir within a week, reports BBConline on Friday. The...

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  EU spurns guided tour of Kashmir

  Agence France-Presse . New Delhi | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2020

  The European Union refused to take part in a rare diplomatic visit to Indian Kashmir starting Thursday because they will not be allowed to meet...