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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MUZAFFARABAD: While a shutter down strike was observed in India-held Kashmir on Monday in protest against increasing incidents of braid-chopping, an anti-India demonstration was held in a post-1990 ...

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 ...

To the world, Manish Sarki was the perfect all-rounder. India has had a long history of public panic. A new panic seizes the public imagination every few years. (Mohit Suneja/HT) A strapping boy of 18 ...

A notorious motor cycle thief, a labourer, a mentally ill person and security force personnel carrying out their “covert duties” are some of the suspects cam under attack from locals for chopping ...

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 ...

String of unexplained attacks has occurred in largely rural areas New Delhi: Police said Thursday they were investigating an outbreak of “braid chopping” that is spooking Indian villagers and has seen ...

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 ...