Internet Curb In Kashmir

Restrictions, including those on internet services, imposed following the death of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani last week have been eased and the situation is "fully normal in both regions of J&K", police tweeted Tuesday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday said that a fake tweet is being circulated in the name Home Minister Amit Shah on internet and mobile curbs in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Dr Suhail Naik, president of the main doctors' association in Kashmir, said education drives seen elsewhere in India about the symptoms of the virus are impossible to run in the region.

Ahead of US President Donald Trump's India visit later this month, four top US senators have written to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, expressing concern about the internet curbs in Kashmir more than six months after Jammu and Kashmir's special status was scrapped under Article 370, as well the preventive detentions of political leaders. In the...

The Supreme Court may have declared indefinite Internet blackouts impermissible, but the Jammu and Kashmir government seems to have found a way to circumvent the verdict and retain most restrictions in the Valley.

Supreme Court said on Friday the indefinite shutdown of the Internet in Kashmir was unwarranted, rebuking the government for the communications lockdown imposed after it withdrew the region's autonomy in August, aiming to control unrest.

Bringing massive relief to the people of Kashmir after months of communication and internet lockdown, the Supreme Court today said right to internet is part of the constitutional right to freedom of speech and ordered the Jammu and Kashmir administration to review within one week all restrictive orders in place since the government ended special st...

The Supreme Court has said that any order that has been passed to restrict or suspend internet services in Jammu and Kashmir will be subject to judicial scrutiny and that the suspension of the internet should be reviewed. "Such suspension can only be for a limited time period and is subject to judicial review," it added.

The centre restored mobile messaging services in Kashmir from Tuesday midnight, nearly five months since its suspension. Broadband internet services are now allowed in hospitals across the Union Territory from the New Year, although curbs oncivilian use may remain.

145 days after restrictions were imposed and internet communications were blocked in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, mobile internet was restored this morning in Kargil, part of the union territory of Ladakh. Internet services, however, are yet to be restored in Kashmir Valley.

The Supreme Court reserved on Wednesday its verdict on a batch of pleas including that of Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad challenging restriction imposed in Jammu and Kashmir following the scrapping of provisions of Article 370.

A decision on resuming internet services in Kashmir - where internet has been snapped for over 100 days - will be taken when the "local administration is convinced", Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in parliament today, adding that no person has died in Jammu and Kashmir due to police firing since August 5 when the government made the big announc...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has justified the restrictions on phone and mobile internet services in Kashmir, saying it was needed to stop communication between terrorists.

Concerned that street protests in Kashmir valley were showing no signs of ebbing, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered internet service providers to block 22 social media and instant messaging sites including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter for the next one month in Kashmir.

Restrictions, including those on internet services, imposed following the death of hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani last week have been eased and the situation is "fully normal in both regions of J&K", police tweeted Tuesday.

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday said that a fake tweet is being circulated in the name Home Minister Amit Shah on internet and mobile curbs in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Dr Suhail Naik, president of the main doctors' association in Kashmir, said education drives seen elsewhere in India about the symptoms of the virus are impossible to run in the region.

Ahead of US President Donald Trump's India visit later this month, four top US senators have written to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, expressing concern about the internet curbs in Kashmir more than six months after Jammu and Kashmir's special status was scrapped under Article 370, as well the preventive detentions of political leaders. In the...

The Supreme Court may have declared indefinite Internet blackouts impermissible, but the Jammu and Kashmir government seems to have found a way to circumvent the verdict and retain most restrictions in the Valley.

Supreme Court said on Friday the indefinite shutdown of the Internet in Kashmir was unwarranted, rebuking the government for the communications lockdown imposed after it withdrew the region's autonomy in August, aiming to control unrest.

Bringing massive relief to the people of Kashmir after months of communication and internet lockdown, the Supreme Court today said right to internet is part of the constitutional right to freedom of speech and ordered the Jammu and Kashmir administration to review within one week all restrictive orders in place since the government ended special st...

The Supreme Court has said that any order that has been passed to restrict or suspend internet services in Jammu and Kashmir will be subject to judicial scrutiny and that the suspension of the internet should be reviewed. "Such suspension can only be for a limited time period and is subject to judicial review," it added.

The centre restored mobile messaging services in Kashmir from Tuesday midnight, nearly five months since its suspension. Broadband internet services are now allowed in hospitals across the Union Territory from the New Year, although curbs oncivilian use may remain.

145 days after restrictions were imposed and internet communications were blocked in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, mobile internet was restored this morning in Kargil, part of the union territory of Ladakh. Internet services, however, are yet to be restored in Kashmir Valley.

The Supreme Court reserved on Wednesday its verdict on a batch of pleas including that of Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad challenging restriction imposed in Jammu and Kashmir following the scrapping of provisions of Article 370.

A decision on resuming internet services in Kashmir - where internet has been snapped for over 100 days - will be taken when the "local administration is convinced", Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in parliament today, adding that no person has died in Jammu and Kashmir due to police firing since August 5 when the government made the big announc...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has justified the restrictions on phone and mobile internet services in Kashmir, saying it was needed to stop communication between terrorists.

Concerned that street protests in Kashmir valley were showing no signs of ebbing, the Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday ordered internet service providers to block 22 social media and instant messaging sites including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter for the next one month in Kashmir.