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Basic rights in the country have now become “luxuries" and "entitlements” bestowed upon only those who toe the government's line on political, social and religious matters, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Saturday. Mufti, the PDP president, said the fundamental rights enshrined in the Indian constitution and guaranteed to all Indian citizens “are being brazenly impinged …

On Saturday, September 24, Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema, a group of roughly 30 Islamic religious and educational organisations in Kashmir, demanded that the government and education department ban practises such as “singing of bhajans and Surya Namaskars” in schools, which they said had hurt the religious sentiments of Muslim children. Islamic body claims Muslim children in Kashmir being forced to sing Hindu …

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The banned Jamaat-e-Islami in Jammu and Kashmir has come under scanner once again as the organisation has not given up its agenda to radicalize the youth and push them towards militancy. The Centre had stated that the Jamaat was collecting funds in the name of religious activities and using the same for ‘anti-national separatist activities.’ Prior to 2019, Jamaat was …