Indian women braid leather straps for big brands in conditions ‘worse than sweatshops’ "Contract work for textiles has been growing exponentially because of the growing popularity of readymade ...

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 ...

A dark and inexplicable mystery is fueling confrontation and deepening the divide between ordinary Kashmiris and security forces in India’s most volatile province. As many as 105 cases of ...

Just around the time reports of the unsolved mystery of braid chopping have ended in different parts of the country, a frenzied mob killed a 70-year-old man Abdul Salam Wani of south Kashmir’s ...

Social media is being used to spread 'braid chopping' rumours in Jammu and Kashmir which is resulting attacks on innocent men. There have been over 100 incidents of braid chopping in the Valley during ...

Aug 05, 2017, 12:06PM ISTSource: Northern India has been gripped with the fear of a so called 'mystery man' who is going around chopping off braids of women. Nearly a dozen incidents have been ...

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 ...

Shaqeela Sajad was cleaning her front veranda last week when a masked man attacked her from behind by forcing a handkerchief over her nose. Sajad is a 24 year-old based in Srinagar, the capital of ...

While health experts dismissed the idea that women were imagining the attacks, they warned that the braid banditry could push an already edgy population further to the brink SRINAGAR: Hundreds of ...

An MPA submitted a resolution to the Punjab Assembly secretariat on Wednesday demanding that the UN should take notice of Indian troops humiliating women in held-Kashmir by cutting off their braids.

Three tourists were badly thrashed by locals in Shalbugh area of Ganderbal district in Jammu and Kashmir after people mistook them as braid choppers. According to reports, they were caught and taken ...

Every day, after she finishes cooking, cleaning and fetching water for her tiny one-room home in India’s financial capital Mumbai, Saubhagya Nadelkari picks up a stack of leather strips and makes her ...