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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Three tourists were badly thrashed by locals in Shalbugh area of Ganderbal district in Jammu and Kashmir after people mistook them as braid choppers. According to reports, they were caught and taken ...

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 ...

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 ...