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Manipur Committee To Probe Use Of "Excess Force" Against Student Protesters
The Manipur government on Thursday constituted a committee to verify complaints of alleged use of excessive force on protesters, mainly students, by security forces here over the last two days, an official order said.
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Delhi Woman Suspected Sister Had Affair With Her Husband, Shot Her In Face
The victim said that after the pellets hit her face, her elder sister hit her several times on her head with the gun butt.
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Porn Star's "Shout Out" To Ex-Pak Envoy To India After Twitter Gaffe
Adult film star Johnny Sins thanked former Pakistani High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit, for new Twitter followers after Mr Basit recently made an embarrassing goof-up and re-tweeted a picture of Johny Sins, passing it off as a Kashmiri pellet gun victim.
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Kamal Nath Orders Probe After Pellet Guns Allegedly Used Against Tribals
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath said on Saturday that an inquiry by a magistrate has been ordered into alleged use of pellet guns against tribals in Burhanpur district, and no guilty person will be spared.
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Plastic Bullet, Substitute To Pellet Shot, Is "500 Times Less Injurious"
There is a new alternative to the pellet bullet, the infamous "non-lethal weapon" being used to disperse stone throwers in Kashmir. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a less lethal plastic bullet.
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Pellet Removed From Jammu And Kashmir's Youngest Survivor's Eye
Doctors on Wednesday successfully removed the pellet lodged in the right eye of an 18-month-old girl, Hiba Nisar, the youngest pellet victim in Kashmir who was injured after getting hit inside her house last month.
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Kashmir Infant, Hit By Pellet In Eye, May Not Regain Full Vision: Doctors
Eighteen-month-old Hiba Nisar, the infant who was injured with pellet gun fire in Shopian, has been discharged from hospital after surgery on her right eye. The doctors are not sure if her eyesight will be restored completely.
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"No Broken Bones...No Major Scars": Parents Deny Torturing 10 Children Found Living In Filth
Ten children have been removed from a home in Fairfield, California, where police say they were tortured, burned, beaten and even shot with a pellet gun while living amid squalor and abuse of all kinds.
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Insha Lost Her Vision To Pellets In Kashmir, Not Hope. Clears Class X Exam
Nearly 18 months after Insha Mushtaq became the face of Kashmir's pellet gun tragedy, the 15-year-old has come to symbolise hope and resilience in the Kashmir valley. Once aspiring to be a doctor, the girl was blinded by the pellet gun injuries she had received in the summer of 2016 but nevertheless continued her studies and qualified her class X b...
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21,000 Plastic Bullets Sent To Kashmir To Reduce Usage Of Pellet Guns
The CRPF has sent 21,000 rounds of newly-developed and "less lethal" plastic bullets to the Kashmir Valley to tackle street protests, says a top officer of the force.
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Will Think About Dealing With Fake Photos, Says UN General Assembly President After Pak Pic Gaffe
United Nations General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has said that he will look into how to deal with the use of erroneous pictures, days after Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN used a photo to portray an injured Gaza girl as a Kashmiri pellet gun victim.
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After Comparing Haryana Violence To Kashmir, Omar Abdullah Retracts Tweet
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah questioned why pellet guns and human shields were not used to control mob violence in Haryana, wondering whether the forces kept them "only for protesting Kashmiris", but withdrew his tweets "unconditionally" after deaths were reported in the violence.
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Maharashtra Cops Use Pellet Guns In Clash With Protesting Farmers
Twenty people were injured as protesting farmers clashed with police this morning on a national highway in Maharashtra near Thane. The police had used pellet guns to control the mob, which blocked traffic on the highway and torched a few vehicles. Senior officer of the local police, Parambir Singh, told NDTV that pellet guns were used after the mob...
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To Educate IAS Daughter, Kashmiri Family Ate Less, Sold Jewellery
Last August was a difficult time in the Kashmir valley. Street protests had broken out in mid-July after Hizbul commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter. And every time the security forces controlled mobs throwing stones with pellet guns, they left people on Kashmir's streets angrier. Thousands had been injured in the protests and much of t...
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Opinion: The Supreme Court Has Got It All Wrong On Kashmir
I do not know what prompted the Bar Association of J&K to approach the Supreme Court for a ban on the use of pellet guns in Kashmir. I am not even privy to the arguments it put fourth for imposing such a ban. But if the plea of the Association came as a surprise, the observations of the court have left me completely baffled.
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Manipur Committee To Probe Use Of "Excess Force" Against Student Protesters
The Manipur government on Thursday constituted a committee to verify complaints of alleged use of excessive force on protesters, mainly students, by security forces here over the last two days, an official order said.
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Delhi Woman Suspected Sister Had Affair With Her Husband, Shot Her In Face
The victim said that after the pellets hit her face, her elder sister hit her several times on her head with the gun butt.
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Porn Star's "Shout Out" To Ex-Pak Envoy To India After Twitter Gaffe
Adult film star Johnny Sins thanked former Pakistani High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit, for new Twitter followers after Mr Basit recently made an embarrassing goof-up and re-tweeted a picture of Johny Sins, passing it off as a Kashmiri pellet gun victim.
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Kamal Nath Orders Probe After Pellet Guns Allegedly Used Against Tribals
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath said on Saturday that an inquiry by a magistrate has been ordered into alleged use of pellet guns against tribals in Burhanpur district, and no guilty person will be spared.
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Plastic Bullet, Substitute To Pellet Shot, Is "500 Times Less Injurious"
There is a new alternative to the pellet bullet, the infamous "non-lethal weapon" being used to disperse stone throwers in Kashmir. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a less lethal plastic bullet.
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Pellet Removed From Jammu And Kashmir's Youngest Survivor's Eye
Doctors on Wednesday successfully removed the pellet lodged in the right eye of an 18-month-old girl, Hiba Nisar, the youngest pellet victim in Kashmir who was injured after getting hit inside her house last month.
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Kashmir Infant, Hit By Pellet In Eye, May Not Regain Full Vision: Doctors
Eighteen-month-old Hiba Nisar, the infant who was injured with pellet gun fire in Shopian, has been discharged from hospital after surgery on her right eye. The doctors are not sure if her eyesight will be restored completely.
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"No Broken Bones...No Major Scars": Parents Deny Torturing 10 Children Found Living In Filth
Ten children have been removed from a home in Fairfield, California, where police say they were tortured, burned, beaten and even shot with a pellet gun while living amid squalor and abuse of all kinds.
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Insha Lost Her Vision To Pellets In Kashmir, Not Hope. Clears Class X Exam
Nearly 18 months after Insha Mushtaq became the face of Kashmir's pellet gun tragedy, the 15-year-old has come to symbolise hope and resilience in the Kashmir valley. Once aspiring to be a doctor, the girl was blinded by the pellet gun injuries she had received in the summer of 2016 but nevertheless continued her studies and qualified her class X b...
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21,000 Plastic Bullets Sent To Kashmir To Reduce Usage Of Pellet Guns
The CRPF has sent 21,000 rounds of newly-developed and "less lethal" plastic bullets to the Kashmir Valley to tackle street protests, says a top officer of the force.
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Will Think About Dealing With Fake Photos, Says UN General Assembly President After Pak Pic Gaffe
United Nations General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has said that he will look into how to deal with the use of erroneous pictures, days after Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN used a photo to portray an injured Gaza girl as a Kashmiri pellet gun victim.
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After Comparing Haryana Violence To Kashmir, Omar Abdullah Retracts Tweet
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah questioned why pellet guns and human shields were not used to control mob violence in Haryana, wondering whether the forces kept them "only for protesting Kashmiris", but withdrew his tweets "unconditionally" after deaths were reported in the violence.
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Maharashtra Cops Use Pellet Guns In Clash With Protesting Farmers
Twenty people were injured as protesting farmers clashed with police this morning on a national highway in Maharashtra near Thane. The police had used pellet guns to control the mob, which blocked traffic on the highway and torched a few vehicles. Senior officer of the local police, Parambir Singh, told NDTV that pellet guns were used after the mob...
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To Educate IAS Daughter, Kashmiri Family Ate Less, Sold Jewellery
Last August was a difficult time in the Kashmir valley. Street protests had broken out in mid-July after Hizbul commander Burhan Wani was killed in an encounter. And every time the security forces controlled mobs throwing stones with pellet guns, they left people on Kashmir's streets angrier. Thousands had been injured in the protests and much of t...
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Opinion: The Supreme Court Has Got It All Wrong On Kashmir
I do not know what prompted the Bar Association of J&K to approach the Supreme Court for a ban on the use of pellet guns in Kashmir. I am not even privy to the arguments it put fourth for imposing such a ban. But if the plea of the Association came as a surprise, the observations of the court have left me completely baffled.