The United States is aware of reports of Pulitzer-winning Kashmiri Sanna Irshad Mattoo allegedly being prevented from travelling to the country, a US State Department official said.
Sanna Irshad Mattoo was awarded the prize for coverage of Covid pandemic for Reuters. This was the 2nd time in four months she has been stopped from travelling abroad, she claimed.
Siddiqui, 38, was killed when he was on assignment in Afghanistan last year. He won the award along with Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave from Reuters news agency.
Megha Rajagopalan from BuzzFeed News and Tampa Bay Times' Neil Bedi are the two Indian-origin journalists who won the US' top journalism award on Friday.
Open letter flays the citation for calling Kashmir 'contested territory'. Several Padma Shri awardees, besides wrestlers Geeta Phogat and Yogeshwar Dutt, among signatories.
Pulitzer awards the best in journalism. But many in India were troubled when three Kashmiris — Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand — won the prize this year.
In the storm around Sinauli, many academics dismissed claims of chariots being found. And the public misinterpreted the chariots as a device planted by the govt to fortify Hindutva.
The report released at Charcha 2025, an annual gathering of India’s social development sector, found that women remain largely concentrated in low-value and routine roles.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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