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How to Use Facebook and Twitter Without the Internet

April 26, 2017April 28, 2017 Editor

As Hurricane Sandy makes its way up the Eastern Seaboard, many are without electricity. Without power you could lose your access to Internet via Wi-Fi and, potentially, access to mobile networks. If that happens, how can you still post on Facebook and Twitter to let your friends and family know that everything is fine? Or ask for help? You can use good-old text messages. To tweet, first you need to enable your mobile phone on Twitter.com, so do it now while you can. Go to your Twitter homepage, then to…

To clamps down on rumour-mongers across Kashmir Valley govt may suspend Facebook & WhatsApp

April 18, 2017 Editor

Having banned 4G and 3G services in the Valley, the Jammu and Kashmir government is now likely to ban Facebook and WhatsApp in the coming days, purportedly to stop videos and pictures of alleged atrocities by security forces from going viral. The state government had suspended 3G and 4G mobile internet services across Kashmir on Monday, although fixed line internet facilities were not taken back. This is the third time the state government has stopped internet services in the last two weeks. Authorities had even snapped broadband internet last week…

‘Net service suspended 29 times between 2012 to April 2017 in Kashmir’

April 18, 2017 Editor

Where the internet gag is troubling the net users every time it is put in Kashmir, it causes financial losses to the telecom service providers operating in this region. According to service providers they suffered over Rs 180 crore loss in three-month complete communication gag during 2016 unrest in Kashmir. “Now today’s order by the government suspending 3G and 4G services on mobile internet is again going to hit our business,” representatives of various companies told Kashmir Post. “It is unfortunate that despite J&K having achieved a mobile subscriber base…

Google gets in Kashmir

March 18, 2017 Editor

With J&K exhibiting one of the highest cell phone penetration rates in India, data dependence is luring searching giant Google into the state, very soon : Reports J&K has finally crossed the psychological barrier. By the end of January, it now boats of having 11272751 cell phone users. In a population of around 12.5 million, a teledensity of more than 91 percent means there is only nine percent of the population still lacking access to a mobile phone. Part of it lives in the border areas of the state where…

Hizbul’s twitter handler posts pro-India tweets, blasts Kashmir separatist leaders

March 11, 2017March 11, 2017 Editor

The Twitter handle of banned militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen began posting pro-India tweets that denounced Kashmir’s separatist leadership on Friday morning, astounding many across the Valley. While this development led observers to believe that hackers had taken control of the militant organisation’s handle, the Hizbul leadership has not issued any clarification in this regard. The tweets under contention were critical of several important resistance leaders, including Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front head Yasin Malik and Hurriyat Conference chairperson Syed Ali Shah Geelani. “Syed Ali Shah Geelani is a puppet of…

‘On-line War’ begun between Kashmiri’s & Indian Patriots on FaceBook, Twitter

September 22, 2016September 22, 2016 Editor

Uri Attack movement of Pride or Shame for India? A questions for the Intellectuals of India & Indian Media who have left no stone unturned to manipulate things. Many Indians have already started an “On-line War” against Kashmiris after the militant attack on the Indian Army in Uri. As soon as news of the attack broke, a large number of Indian netizens hit the popular sites of Twitter and Facebook with abuse and mockery of Kashmiris and justified the killings of protesters in the past two-and-a-half months of the anti-India uprising in Kashmir.…