The State government has banned the publication of newspapers in curfew-bound Valley, with newspaper owners/editors terming it as “Press Emergency”. The Valley-based print media outlets Saturday held sit-in protest against the government’s move to ban publication of newspapers at Srinagar’s press enclave. Holding placards, newspaper owners/editors stated that: “An emergency meeting of Kashmir based newspaper editors/owners was held on Saturday afternoon in which the situation arising out of the police raids on all the printing presses was discussed threadbare” “This action of the government which resulted in breakdown of circulation…
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Strict Curfew in force, Media Gagged, Mobile network suspended, Cable TV snapped, but things are still normal
After raiding the prominent newspaper offices to seize the copies, authorities have also banned the Cable TV. The operators were directed to snap the services early morning, sources said. The government has already snapped the major cellular services Airtel, Aircel, Vodafone and Reliance along with data facility in entire Kashmir. This followed the cycle of violence that began Saturday after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in which 43 people have been killed so far and over 1800 injured Curfew on Saturday remained in force across Kashmir and…
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