Topic: communication clampdown

2G services have been restored in Kupwara and Bandipora districts, while Voice and SMS facilities were restored throughout the UT.

A total of 21,328 schools — 98% of the total schools — have started functioning in Jammu and Kashmir, says home ministry.

An official said SMS services were stopped as a precautionary method after two terrorists attacked a truck driver and an orchard owner in Shopian.

The start of the new week dawned on Kashmir with scenes of relief, cheer and also worry as mobile phone services were partially restored. 

Shias, who were seen as ‘friendly’ by cops and CRPF personnel in Kashmir, say Modi govt has bought into the Sunni majoritarian agenda.

Bureaucrats in Delhi recently told a foreign delegation that Modi govt plans to conduct the election in Jammu and Kashmir by July 2020.

By putting conditions on Sitaram Yechury’s visit to meet his ailing CPI(M) colleague in Kashmir, wasn’t the Supreme Court breaching its mandate?

The Press Club criticised the communication blockade, saying it amounted to coercion, and demanded the govt restore internet and telephone facilities to media outlets.

After the abrogation of Article 370 and clampdown on Kashmir, several international media houses such as BBC, The Washington Post, Reuters and The New York Times reported on the tense atmosphere in J&K, protests by Kashmiris and detentions.