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In Kashmir, a photo of a militant’s body being dragged by security forces sparks outrage 0
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- September 20, 2018
Retired generals insist that this is standard procedure since militant bodies are often booby trapped. via Twitter Sep 14, 2018 Rayan Naqash On the evening of September 13, a photograph of security personnel dragging a body with rope tied to its feet went viral in the Kashmir Valley. Earlier that day, two gunfights had broken
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‘Breaking people’s will’: In Kashmir, gunfights leave a trail of destroyed homes and rising anger 0
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- September 20, 2018
20 September, 2018 Kashmiris see the destruction of their property by government forces as a ‘form of punishment’. Rayan Naqash The 70-year-old shopkeeper from Khudwani in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district does not remember the exact date his house was reduced to rubble. He only remembers furious knocking in the dead of the night, sometime this
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Opinion: Bangladesh has damaged its democratic credentials with the latest crackdown 0
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- August 12, 2018
The actions of the ruling Awami League, not its words, speak of state that is autocratic and repressive. Police fire tear gas shells during the students’ protest in Dhaka on August 5, 2018. | Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters Aug 11, 2018 Ikhtisad Ahmed In the following days, these organic demonstrations grew into a peaceful civil disobedience
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Not just Trump: India has separated Bangladeshi children from their parents for years 0
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- July 4, 2018
In West Bengal, the detained Bangladesh immigrants are sent to prisons while their children are kept in shelter homes. A Bangladeshi woman weeps while holding children in the no-man’s-land between India and Bangladesh at the Satcachi border crossing, near Coochbehar, some 650 kms north of Kolkata. | Biswarup Basak/AFP This is Sneha, a shelter home
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Forgotten Indian history: The brutal Maratha invasions of Bengal 3
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- December 10, 2017
For medieval India history, incidents that don’t fit into an overarching Hindu versus Muslim narrative tend to be removed from popular discourse. The 1741 Maratha invasion of Bengal is one such example. Dec 21, 2015 Shoaib Daniyal Road names often have a story to tell. In Calcutta, given its long continuous history, even more so.
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The idea that Nepal must maintain an equal relationship with India and China is foolish 0
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- August 27, 2017
The Himalayan nation and its southern neighbour have cultural, religious and people-to-people links that Beijing cannot replace. Prakash Singh/AFP Aug 25, 2017 Sunil Pant On August 23, Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba arrived in Delhi for a four-day-long official visit in the shadow of the Doklam standoff between India and China over a territorial
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In Kashmir, a photo of a militant’s body being dragged by security forces sparks outrage 0