SRINAGAR, India — Hundreds of young men — armed with knives, cricket bats and iron rods — patrol the nighttime streets of India-controlled Kashmir these days, hoping their ad hoc vigilante groups will ...

AGRA CITY, India — A mysterious “braid-chopper” is cutting off women’s hair in Northern India, according to a Reuters report. In what is being called The Case of the Phantom Barber, over the past two ...

SRINAGAR, India >> Hundreds of young men — armed with knives, cricket bats and iron rods — patrol the nighttime streets of India-controlled Kashmir these days, hoping their ad-hoc vigilante groups ...

Six international tourists found themselves the focus of an "unruly mob," after a large group of Kashmiri locals mistook them for the area's notorious braid-choppers. If you're confused, ...

A spate of braid-cutting attacks on women near the India-Pakistan border has turned into a “major law and order problem” as locals turn on each other and the authorities. More than 50 women and girls ...

A spate of mysterious braid-chopping incidents in India's far north has forced local authorities to restrict public gatherings as thousands of people have taken to the streets demanding action. The ...

SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Shaqeela Sajad was sweeping the front porch last week when a masked man dressed in black forced a handkerchief over her nose and attacked her. “When I opened my eyes in the ...

Over the past two months, at least 200 women in Indian-administered Kashmir have reported being attacked by masked assailants who cut off their braids. According to many of the victims’ accounts, the ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Hundreds of young men - armed with knives, cricket bats and iron rods - patrol the nighttime streets of India-controlled Kashmir these days, hoping their ad-hoc vigilante groups ...

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