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Topic: Budgam

Budgam friendly fire: Should charge of culpable homicide be on the table in the fog of war?

A senior IAF officer and 3 other personnel could be booked for “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” in the February Mi-17 helicopter downing.

IAF admitting friendly fire in chopper crash is professional, but criminal charge avoidable

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Kashmir villagers say didn’t steal crashed IAF chopper black box, uniformed men took it

Residents of Gariend Kalan, where the IAF Mi-17 V-5 crashed, say men in uniform took away parts of the chopper from the crash site and its vicinity.

This Kashmir district used to defy calls for poll boycott, but now it couldn’t care less

Despite bad roads & chronic power shortage, the mood in Budgam is marked by political indifference after 8 young men were killed in 2017 during bypoll voting.

Army jawan reported missing from Kashmir’s Budgam, police suspect terror group abducted him

The soldier, who was home on vacation, was taken away from the house, his family told police.

2 pilots among 7 killed in IAF chopper crash in J&K’s Budgam

Both pilots, four of the crew and a local were killed when the helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning.

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Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.