Edgar Allan Pillow
Ero-Sennin
Minor earthquake in Kashmir to top all the political troubles. Hope people are well.
On 29 August, a Jammu and Kashmir police officer tweeted out the names and Facebook profile photos of five men, accusing them of “posting fake news, instigating people to disturb peace in the area.”
The men, who belong to Poonch and Rajouri districts of the recently created Union Territory, currently live in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and were alleged to have posted “sensitive remarks” on Facebook.
The police registered FIRs against them for “promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion, race...,” and under Section 66B of the Information Technology Act, which is “punishment for dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication device.”
When a Kashmiri physicist from Srinagar, who had published a Facebook post on 20 August alleging that the Indian army had beaten and tortured a fellow Kashmiri, heard the news, he started feeling worried.
The substance wasn’t surprising in itself—booking people for social media posts has happened too many times in India, especially since the Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014.
What really startled the physicist, who is studying in Europe, was a news report that quoted Yougal Manhas, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Rajouri, Jammu, as saying that that process to cancel the passports of the five men would be started soon.
The judges back then were cut from a different cloth. Just reading judgments of that period will tell you the difference in quality. The decline started in the 80's. That's not to say they didn't get "influenced", difference is today bar one or two judges of the supreme court all the others don't give a shit about rule of law and most of them dont even bother hiding it.One of the landmark cases after the 1975-77 Emergency that marked the resurgence of a strong rights-promoting Supreme Court against the executive branch was Maneka Gandhi v Union of India, the judgemet stated basically that her passport cannot be impounded for no reason.
I'll be pleasantly surprised if this court applies that precedent to these new passport cases.
Increasingly looking like this was an attempt to mask the economy shambles, which is unraveling anyway. I see no other explanation why this has to be done so haphazardly.Right, I've officially changed my mind, I'm against the scrapping of Article 370. I actually changed it when we crossed 30 days of communication blockdown, but didn't get time to post here. Any change that'll affect the local people so badly that you'll need to stop them from communicating to each other, is better not made.
Instead of moaning here why dont you buy a few cars rather than commuting via uber/ola. Its your fault the economy is tanking.Increasingly looking like this was an attempt to mask the economy shambles, which is unraveling anyway. I see no other explanation why this has to be done so haphazardly.
My Chai-Pakoda stall isn't really providing me with enough income to buy a carInstead of moaning here why dont you buy a few cars rather than commuting via uber/ola. Its your fault the economy is tanking.
That’s too outdated. Move with times by opening ‘Learn Hindi’ tuition classes. That’s where the money is these daysMy Chai-Pakoda stall isn't really providing me with enough income to buy a car
And while your at it make sure to buy a new set of underwear.My Chai-Pakoda stall isn't really providing me with enough income to buy a car
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It's part of the dressing now so it's not a mismatch. British era influenced a lot of things from food to clothing.Ive never understood why people wear a coat/blazer over a traditional outfit ? There must be some desi alternative.
A delegation of over 25 European Union MPs met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence in New Delhi and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval Monday ahead of their visit to Jammu and Kashmir. This is the first time an international delegation will be visiting J&K after the government scrapped the state’s special status under Article 370.
“Yes we are going there (J&K) tomorrow. The Prime Minister explained to us about it (abrogation of article 370), but I want to see on the ground how it actually is and talk to some local people. What we all want is normalcy and peace for everyone,” news agnency ANI quoted BN Dunn, a member of the delegation, as saying.
Earlier this month, a key US Senator from the Democratic Party, Chris Van Hollen, was denied permission by the government to visit Kashmir to see the situation “first-hand”.
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Giving precedence to European MP's elected by Europeans over Indian MP's elected by Indian citizens! No matter the politics involved if anything is anti-national it is this.‘There should be zero tolerance for terrorism’: PM Modi tells EU delegation ahead of their J&K visit
This is the first time an international delegation will be visiting J&K after the government scrapped the state's special status under Article 370 and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories.
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