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 ...

SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Shaqeela Sajad was sweeping the front porch last week when a masked man dressed in black forced a handkerchief over her nose and attacked her. “When I opened my eyes in the ...

Srinagar, Oct 4 (PTI) Women-folk in Kashmir are a worried lot due to an increasing number of braid-chopping incidents being reported from several parts of the Valley over the past three weeks. The ...

Just around the time reports of the unsolved mystery of braid chopping have ended in different parts of the country, a frenzied mob killed a 70-year-old man Abdul Salam Wani of south Kashmir’s ...

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – A wave of fear has gripped Indian-administered Kashmir after a series of “braid-chopping” attacks that have resulted in protests across the region. At least 200 ...

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 ...

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.

New Delhi, Aug 5: The braid chopping incidents continue to be reported from Uttar Pradesh as two more women claimed that their braid was chopped off mysteriously on Friday night. As per the latest ...

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 ...