Tarigami moves Supreme Court to challenge abrogation of Article 370, 35-A

Tarigami moves Supreme Court to challenge abrogation of Article 370, 35-A

Prays for an early hearing of the case in the ‘interest of justice. The Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) and spokesperson of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), MY Tarigami Friday filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India, challenging the constitutional validity of abrogation of Article 370 and 35-A and passing of the Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Act 2019 in the parliament, which bifurcated the state into two Union Territories. In the written petition, Tarigami has prayed before the Supreme Court to…

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Is Social Media Journalism in Kashmir a Pernicious Progress?

Is Social Media Journalism in Kashmir a Pernicious Progress?

By Ummar Jamal On Saturday soon after police arrested Ashiq Mir, one of the associates of Shahid Imran, running a social media page –Kashmir Crown—in connection with a case of exhortation under section 383 of IPC, social media journalism became the recent talk of the street. Social media journalism was targeted for inauthenticity and unreliability. Journalists associated with print and television media voiced that social media journalism had degraded the prestige of journalism. They exclaimed that nowadays every Tom, Dick, and Harry buy a mic and put on an identity…

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