The April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians triggered a sharp escalation, with India launching search operations and announcing sweeping diplomatic measures, including putting the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance.
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From housing refusals in Delhi to attacks on shawl sellers, Kashmiris describe how suspicion resurfaces after incidents.
The Baisaran meadow stands deserted. A crackdown on suspected militants has led to homes being demolished. These images capture the silence, the pain and the loss that has left people living in the Valley stunned and heartbroken
A year after the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley, the human cost continues to haunt Kashmir. While a fragile ceasefire holds, the emotional and political aftershocks remain deeply entrenched.
A year after the attack in Pahalgam left 26 people dead, India and Pakistan have engaged in several back-channel talks amid an improved security situation in Kashmir
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The Women’s Reservation Bill need not be linked to delimitation. It can’t be conditional. It should have been implemented in 2023 and must be implemented now without linking it with delimitation.
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The April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 civilians triggered a sharp escalation, with India launching search operations and announcing sweeping diplomatic measures, including putting the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance.
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As ‘Patriot’ (2026) reunites Mammootty and Mohanlal after 17 years, we revisit the defining collaborations that turned their pairing into the beating heart of Malayalam cinema.
Visions du Réel 2026 | Kartikeya Saxena’s riveting short film blends memory, wonder and science to imagine the curious lives of captive creatures.
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Ben Wheatley’s new film is a neo-Western caper with well-choreographed action sequences that infuse comedy into their gore. However, the film stops just a notch below the quality of action sequences Hollywood is used to churning out.
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Based on Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator, the film follows a teenage boy forced to confront death in a conflict-ridden Kashmir. As friends disappear and violence closes in, he is caught between survival and conscience.
This horror-comedy boasts all the putrid remains of early 2000s Hindi cinema that Priyadarshan recycles in vain.
For a film engineered to act as a political campaign, its inability to release becomes one too—signalling towards a brilliantly managed narrative-making machine in the hands of political leader Vijay.
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