How do the fatwa and the subsequent disbanding of the all-girl band affect the women's rights movement in Kashmir? Social activist Qurat Masoodi joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
06:51 PM, Feb 06, 2013
A Class IV girl student was allegedly molested by her school headmaster in the institute premises, police said on February 6. The victim, student of Government Primary School, was molested by Jagdamba Prasad (59), who was drunk on February 5, Circle Officer Aruna Bhartee said. The accused has been arrested. ...
04:10 PM, Feb 06, 2013
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12:08 PM, Feb 06, 2013
As Kashmir's all-girls band is forced to stop singing due to threats and fatwas, most stunned by the anger is a group of female folk singers from Iran. In India for their first foreign performances, the women say that Islam doesn't stop women from singing and they have been doing so for years. ...
10:04 AM, Feb 06, 2013
Expressing varied stands on issues of right to expression, BJP on Tuesday said Kashmir's all-girl band Pragaash is being banned due to a politics of vote but justified protests by VHP's Durga Vahini against a nude art exhibition in New Delhi as an example of upholding order and morality. ...
03:40 AM, Feb 06, 2013
A 36-year old man, father of two children, allegedly burnt to death a teenaged girl after rejected his proposal to marry him and attempted self-immolation at a village near Srivilliputhur on Tuesday, police said. ...
03:21 AM, Feb 06, 2013
Srinagar Police on Tuesday filed an FIR against those who posted online abuse and threats aimed at the valley's first girls-only rock band. But the band members said they gave up after the state's Grand Mufti's fatwa. ...
10:52 PM, Feb 05, 2013
A girl band in Jammu and Kashmir is forced to quit; an exhibition of nudes in Delhi compelled to shut temporarily; an art academy in Bangalore coerced into removing three nude paintings - these incidents just follow the FIR against a sociologist who spoke on corruption and Dalits at a literature festival and the prevention of an eminent author from entering a metropolitan city to attend another literary event. ...
08:48 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Main Opposition party leader Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday condemned the Omar Abdullah government for what she called "delayed response" to the fatwa against Kashmir's first girl band. ...
06:45 PM, Feb 05, 2013
One of the members of Pragaash, Jammu and Kashmir's first girl band, on Tuesday broke her silence and said that they decided to quit because they respected the Grand Mufti's decision and not because of the abuses and threats hurled at them on Facebook. Speaking to CNN-IBN, the girl said that she was too small to know whether music was un-Islamic or not and that the Grand Mufti would be...
05:21 PM, Feb 05, 2013
"Long live Islam, long live India, long live Hinduism, give our countryppl some broad mind oh almighty, it's urgently needed" and "it's not about few people but masses, what happened to few harm many, discourage for others what we will achieve from all this". These were the messages that appeared on the Facebook page of "Pragaash" - Jammu and Kashmir's first all-girls band - even as those objecting to their...
03:20 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Kashmir Center for Social and Development Studies, chairperson Hameedah Nayeem joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the fatwa against Kashmir's all-girl band ...
02:57 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Victoria Beckham may be a well regarded fashionista now but a lip ring that she wore during a performance in 2001 has helped her top the list of fashion disaster of the century ahead of Lady Gaga and Angelina Jolie. ...
02:21 PM, Feb 05, 2013
While the Jammu and Kashmir Police filed an FIR against those issuing threats to the valley's first girl rock band Pragaash, the leader of Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Nation), Asiya Andrabi backed the fatwa issued by the Grand Mufti against the band. Andrabi said there was nothing wrong in stopping the girls from performing on stage. ...
01:28 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday filed an FIR against online abusers of the all-girl music band Pragaash, said sources. The police action came after an SMS threat was circulated against the all-girl band. ...
10:45 AM, Feb 05, 2013
In the wake of the fatwa against the first girl rock band of Jammu and Kashmir, many prominent Kashmiris came out in support of the band and condemned the fatwa issued by the Grand Mufti. Lawyer Shabnam Lone and actor Aamir Bashir blamed the Omar Abdullah government for not acting against the religious diktats. ...
07:50 AM, Feb 05, 2013
The BJP on Monday described the 'fatwa' against the all-girl rock band in Kashmir as an attemptby certain fundamentalist groups to "Talibanise" society. ...
04:27 AM, Feb 05, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that full security will be provided to the members of the state's first girl band if they wanted to pursue their music career. ...
11:40 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday told CNN-IBN that the state will protect the girls if they wanted to continue performing. ...
10:24 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that full security will be provided to the members of the state's first girl band if they wanted to pursue their music career. "The decision to continue or not continue lies with the band. Jammu and Kashmir always had a musical history. The girls can continue their musical career. The state will provide security," said Omar, in an interview to...
07:20 PM, Feb 04, 2013
