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 an interview with Anandabazar Patrika Shankar waxed eloquent about her many objections to the pallu not covering the bosom area of Gen Z women. She called them ‘women of the street’.
With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.
The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.
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