Naveed Iqbal

After taking stock of the district’s development scenario, Prasad urged officials to “create opportunities” for creative people and the youth, as J&K is craving development.

Reddy and many other Union ministers are in Jammu and Kashmir, launching projects and addressing the people as part of the Centre’s outreach programme in the Union Territory.

Mukhtar Naqvi interacted with almost a dozen delegations after addressing an audience of about 350 people at the Block Development Office in Harwan, on the outskirts of Srinagar.

In the social sciences textbook for class VII, pictures of J&K Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu and Ladakh Lieutenant Governor R K Mathur have been included while explaining the administrative structure in the UT.

Among the 153 websites on the whitelist are four email services, including Gmail and Outlook, 15 banking websites, including RBI, J&K Bank, PayPal and Western Union, three employment websites, 38 educational websites, including websites of five J&K-based universities and Wikipedia.

The week-long visit beginning this Saturday, January 18, will see ministers heading out to different districts in both Jammu and Kashmir.

Five leaders unlikely to be released soon are Peoples’ Conference chief Sajad Lone, National Conference general secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar, J&K People’s Movement president Shah Faesal, senior PDP leader Naeem Akhtar and PDP youth wing president Waheed ur Rehman Para.

1997-batch IPS officer Vijay Kumar replaces Swayam Prakash Pani, who will take office as Inspector General (Armed) Police.

Palla was arrested from his home after midnight on August 6 and booked under the PSA. The dossier prepared ahead of his arrest accused Palla of being a “threat to safety and security of general public and sovereignty of the nation”. After a day at Central Jail in Srinagar, he was flown to Bareilly along with 19 others.

Data accessed by The Indian Express shows this year's figures for the number of militants killed are at a three-year low.

Abdullah is being held under the Public Safety Act, 1978, “with a view to prevent him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order”, the order extending his

Prosecution powers taken away from J&K cops HD

Stating that officials in both Jammu and Kashmir regions have been asked to identify state land in order to create as big a land bank as possible, Kumar told The Indian Express, “This is at the initial stages and officials in the districts have been asked to identify more land.”

Post-August 5, the CAPF deployment increased to 653 companies. Of these, about 20 companies have left in recent weeks, and been redeployed elsewhere.

They are being held in the old part of the hostel, which is “dilapidated, unclean and has barely any heating arrangement” even as temperatures are in single degrees, sources said.

Describing the revocation of special status as the “removal of the soul from the body”, Shah said, “We are at least within our homes, look at how they are preparing the MLA hostel for moving those held at SKICC. The windows are being blocked with plyboard sheets. Is this how you keep human beings?”

SKICC has been designated a subsidiary jail since August 5, the day the Union government revoked special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370.

Shah, son of former J&K chief minister Ghulam Mohammed Shah, told The Indian Express, “No one is allowed to step outside, and no one is allowed to go inside the gates.”

Following the government’s decision, there have been protests in Kargil — the Muslim-majority district of Ladakh region — alleging discrimination.