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Twitter shows the different map; J&K, Ladakh demarcated from India

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

This is not the first time that a different map of India has been shown by Twitter. In November 2020, the microblogging website showed Leh as part of Jammu and Kashmir instead of the Union Territory of Ladakh. Amidst the tussle between Twitter and the Central Government, Twitter’s career website, Tweep Life, shows a demarcation between the map of India and Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are represented as separate countries. This is not the first time that a different map of India has been…

Maisuma, Batamaloo, Pantha Chowk, Hari Parbat among pockets of densely populated land in Kashmir on the defence ministry’s radar

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

The defense ministry claims to own the land under an agreement dating back to 1956. But revenue officials say it was under the state government until now. Four prime locations in Srinagar are among the six pockets of land in Kashmir that defense ministry officials visited this year as part of their effort to survey and demarcate plot boundaries, official correspondence accessed shows. The defence ministry has long claimed ownership over this land which measures over 190 acres, roughly the size of 50 cricket fields. It is described in the…

Modi’s Kashmir Gamble and Uttar Pradesh Election

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

India’s Kashmir policy is part external affairs, part home affairs. Depending upon the predilection of the person in power in Delhi, the relative share varies. For example, in Pandit Nehru’s time, when foreign policy used to matter more, it was primarily seen through the prism of international politics. But in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s time, since Hindutva politics is reigning all the way, his Kashmir policy is nothing but an extension of his Hindutva ideological thrust. Behind every move in Kashmir, the Modi government needs to see how it would…

What does GoI want to do in Kashmir?

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

Behzad Taimur Kashmir has once again been in the news. On June 23rd, last week, Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, held a “surprise” meeting with 14 political leaders from Indian Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IOJK). This meeting has come to be seen as a “breaking of ice” moment following the illegal actions of the Modi government on August 5th, 2019, and thereafter. It is supposed to have begun a “political process” between New Delhi and IOJK. It is being said that this “political process” would lead to the lifting…

Modi’s meeting with J&K leaders was nothing but posturing aimed at placating the international community

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

Arun Srivastava Some of the leaders from Jammu and Kashmir who attended the June 24 meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have already realised that his design, wrapped in the cliché of ‘Naya Kashmir’, was primarily aimed at serving the interest of the international players and also to entrap the Kashmiri leaders. The deliberations at the meeting made it abundantly clear that Modi took utmost pains to conceal his real intentions and has nothing new to offer to the people of the region. As usual, he resorted to obsolete…

PM likely to take some revolutionary steps in J&K: Kavinder Gupta

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

Just days after the Centre held all-party meeting with leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was likely to take some “revolutionary steps” in J&K. Gupta was part of the three-member BJP delegation from Jammu and Kashmir who attended the all-party meeting chaired by Prime Minister Modi in Delhi on June 24. The BJP leader said that the central government would restore Jammu and Kashmir’s past glory that too with people getting opportunities as…

Difference in the conduct of Mehbooba Mufti during and after PM’s J&K all-party meet: Muzaffar Baig

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir People’s Conference leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Muzaffar Hussain Baig, one of the leaders who attended PM Modi’s J&K all-party meeting on Thursday, in an exclusive conversation with India TV gave insights of the meeting, spoke about the conduct of PDP chief and former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti among other issues. Muzaffar Hussain Baig said that talks with the Prime Minister were held in a good atmosphere adding that he noted down all the important issues which were raised during the…

Two explosions rock Jammu airport, nearby airbases on high alert, drones used for attack

June 27, 2021June 27, 2021 Editor

Two explosions took place in the high-security zone of the Air Force Station in Jammu in the early hours of Sunday n a major security scare, two explosions rocked the high security technical area of Air Force Station Jammu on the intervening night of June 26-27. Sources told India Today that two personnel sustained minor injuries but are out of danger. The explosions took place within a span of five minutes in the early hours of Sunday; the first blast ripped off the roof of a building at 1:37 am…

‘Will continue to raise Article 370 issue for however long it takes’: Omar Abdullah

June 26, 2021June 26, 2021 Editor

The former chief minister and National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah participated in the high-stakes all-party meeting on Jammu & Kashmir chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 24. He gave his sense of the discussions in an interview. Edited excerpts: Both you and your father, Farooq Abdullah – a sitting Lok Sabha MP – were detained after the nullification of Article 370. What made you trust Prime Minister Narendra Modi after what happened?They are the ones who detained us, and they are the ones who invited us. They…

For demanding road connectivity eight persons booked in Bhaderwah

June 26, 2021June 26, 2021 Editor

At least eight persons including four Sarpanchs and a government teacher have been booked in Bhaderwah for staging a protest for demanding road connectivity to their respective villages during an official visit of Farooq Khan, Advisor to LG Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday. An official told a local news agency, Kashmir Post that they have been booked under Epidemic Disease Act 1997 for violating Covid-19 restrictions imposed in the district. He said the several locals of various panchayats of Bhaderwah had assembled on Bhaderwah-Pul Doda road and blocked the road,…