The management of Kashmir Law College Srinagar has removed Dr Sheikh Showkat from the post of principal and the process to appoint the head has been initiated by the college management. According to a statement to a local news agency, Dr Showkat has been “a hard-line ideologue of Pakistani backed separatist organisations and in 2016, he along with Pakistani-sponsored secessionist Syed Ali Geelani, Arundhati Roy, Prof. SAR Geelani and others had participated at a convention titled – Azadi – The Only Way at Press Club of India, New-Delhi.” The statement further reads that he was one among others who delivered an “anti-India speech” at the convention and “anti-India slogans” were also raised at the convention. Delhi Police had registered an FIR under sections 124 A (sedition), 120 B ...

Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the Students wing of BJP allegedly assaulted students on the Jawahar Lal Nehru University campus, while stopping them from eating non-vegetarian food on the campus during Ram Navami. Several students on the campus of JNU accused ABVP of stopping students from eating non-vegetarian food on the day of Ram Navami. "ABVP stopping non-veg from being cooked in Kaveri Hostel of JNU! Every Sunday, students have the option to either eat non-veg Or veg. But today, ABVP goons attacked the mess secretary who had gone to receive the supply of meat. ABVP cannot decide what one wants to eat, "Madhurima Kundu a JNU student wrote on her Twitter. https://twitter.com/madhurima_k_/status/1513131279415668743 Several students objected to this which resulted...

The long incarcerated journalist Asif Sultan was, on Sunday, booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA). One of his family members confirmed to The Kashmiriyat that Asif had been booked under the draconian PSA and shifted to the Kot Bhalwal jail of Jammu. It is pertinent to mention that Asif, who has been incarcerated since August 2018 was granted bail by a court in Srinagar on April 05, 2022. However, he was immediately taken in for questioning by the CIK, after which he has been taken into detention under the PSA, again. Asif had been languishing in Central Jail, Srinagar for almost four years. Several international organizations including the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have demanded the immediate release of Aasif Sultan who worked as an editor with Kashmir-based ne...