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Amnesty denied permission to hold press briefing in Srinagar

On: June 13, 2019

Srinagar, June 14, 2019: Authorities here on June 12 refused permission to Amnesty International to hold a briefing on alleged misuse of the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA), which provides for detention of a person up to one year without trial. An Amnesty spokesperson said the authorities had not givenContinue Reading

1000 non-Kashmiri students leave campus

By: Matters India

On: April 11, 2016

In: National

New Delhi: More than 1,000 non-Kashmiri students have left the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar following days of tensions between local and outstation pupils over nationalism, sources said on Monday. Around 600 students left the campus on Monday, a day after actor and BJP sympathiser Anupam Kher was forcedContinue Reading