A dark and inexplicable mystery is fueling confrontation and deepening the divide between ordinary Kashmiris and security forces in India’s most volatile province. As many as 105 cases of ...

Shaqeela Sajad was cleaning her front veranda last week when a masked man attacked her from behind by forcing a handkerchief over her nose. Sajad is a 24 year-old based in Srinagar, the capital of ...

Aug 05, 2017, 12:06PM ISTSource: Northern India has been gripped with the fear of a so called 'mystery man' who is going around chopping off braids of women. Nearly a dozen incidents have been ...

Social media is being used to spread 'braid chopping' rumours in Jammu and Kashmir which is resulting attacks on innocent men. There have been over 100 incidents of braid chopping in the Valley during ...

An MPA submitted a resolution to the Punjab Assembly secretariat on Wednesday demanding that the UN should take notice of Indian troops humiliating women in held-Kashmir by cutting off their braids.

Over the past two months, at least 200 women in Indian-administered Kashmir have reported being attacked by masked assailants who cut off their braids. According to many of the victims’ accounts, the ...

NEW DELHI: Police said Thursday they were investigating an outbreak of “braid chopping” that is spooking Indian villagers and has seen a woman murdered amid rumours of witchcraft. Since July, at least ...

While health experts dismissed the idea that women were imagining the attacks, they warned that the braid banditry could push an already edgy population further to the brink SRINAGAR: Hundreds of ...

Every day, after she finishes cooking, cleaning and fetching water for her tiny one-room home in India’s financial capital Mumbai, Saubhagya Nadelkari picks up a stack of leather strips and makes her ...

We're in Cornwall at Port Eliot festival. Bumble and bumble s Neil Moodie yesterday showed us how to create one of his (and now ours!) favourite plaits: the Indian Braid. The best thing about this ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every day, after she finishes cooking, cleaning and fetching water for her tiny one-room home in India's financial capital Mumbai, Saubhagya Nadelkari picks up a ...