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While quashing a preventive detention order under J&K Public Safety Act, the Jammu & Kashmir High Court has ruled that Constitution casts legal obligation on the Government to consider the detenus...

For the second year running, the annual market for goats has been disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, forcing sellers, mostly from Uttar Pradesh, to roam around the Old Delhi localities trying to find customers. (Photo by Tarun Rawat) NEW DELHI: Kaiser Ali, who lives in Rani Bagh in northwest Delhi, came all the way to Meena Bazar near Jama Masjid with his wife in search of a goat for Eid-ul-Adha, which falls on July 21. He thought the caprine market that springs up weeks before the festival wa...

Abdul Hameed Mir, 45, was detained by the authorities around the same time when Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s government unilaterally announced changes in the constitutional and legal status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, effectively wiping out the semi-autonomy enjoyed by the region for generations. Picked up from his house in the Kupwara district of Kashmir, Mr Mir had been in prison for more than 18 months without charge when he...