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Tourist arrivals in Kashmir are set to break all previous records as more than 1.25 million tourists have already come here to date this year. Officials of the local tourism department have said that over 12.5 lakh tourists have so far visited Kashmir and going by the present trend, the year 2024 is likely to break all previous records. At present, all local hotels in Srinagar city, in the ski resort of Gulmarg and the hill stations of Pahalgam and Sonamarg are completely sold out till the middle of June. "What is true of hotels in these places is also true of guest houses, homestays, houseboats on the Dal and the Nigeen Lakes and other such lodging facilities in Kashmir at the moment," said an official here. More encouraging this year is the fact that with the improved law and order situation and the prevailing peace, foreign tourists have started coming to Kashmir in good numbers. "We earn foreign exchange once the foreign tourists start coming to Kashmir. In addi...

Director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, who is currently busy with his film 'The Delhi Files', recently visited Mahatma Gandhi's Ashram in Sevagram, Maharashtra. The director said that he visited the place for research of his upcoming film. On Thursday, Vivek Agnihotri took to social media and shared pictures from his visit to Gandhi's ashram. He shared the pictures with the caption: "For the research of #TheDelhiFiles, I spent days at Gandhi's Ashram in Sewagram. This cottage has been visited by whos who of the world. Some of the best journalists used to station themselves here to interview Gandhi. Every parent must take their children there. Truly inspiring." For the research of #TheDelhiFiles , I spent days at Gandhi's Ashram in Sewagram. This cottage has been visited by whos who of the world. Some of the best journalists used to station themselves here to interview Gandhi. Every parent must take their children there. Truly inspiring. pic.twitter.com/...

Reiterating India's stance on Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated that the whole of Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh are integral part of India. He stated that India is not in favour of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as it goes against New Delhi's territorial integrity and sovereignty. In response to a query on reports of increased cooperation between Pakistan and China during the weekly media briefing, Mr Jaiswal stated, "On PoK, we are very consistent in our position. We want to tell you, the whole of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the union territories, they are part of India, an integral part of India. They were an integral part of India. They are an integral part of India and they will remain an integral part of India." "Our position on CPEC also is well known to you. We are not in favour of it. We are against it. It goes against our territorial integrity and sover...

At least 45 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in Gaza's Rafah on Sunday, prompting global outrage against the Netanyahu government. Soon after, multiple social media users, including celebrities, shared an image displaying the words "All eyes on Rafah," in solidarity with the victims of the airstrike. While the trend gained momentum on social media, several Indian celebrities received backlash for posting the viral image. Against this backdrop, an alleged screengrab of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Instagram story stating "All Eyes on PoK" has gone viral online. However, Newschecker found that the image was fabricated and that there was no evidence to show that the PM had posted any such story. As the BJP eyes its third term at the centre, multiple top leaders of the party have vouched for the integration of PoK- Pakistan Occupied Kashmir with India if voted to power. In a recent rally, Home Minister Amit Shah affirmed that P...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to mark the end of a hectic poll campaign and head to Kanyakumari today for a two-day meditation at the iconic Vivekananda Rock Memorial. Ahead of PM Modi's visit down south, his 33-year-old pictures from the iconic spot surfaced on social media on Thursday and took the netizens by storm. The pictures dated December 11, 1991, are from Ekta Yatra that commenced from the iconic Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari and ended in Kashmir. In the viral pictures, all the 'Ekta Yatris' including Narendra Modi and party veteran Dr Murli Manohar Joshi can be seen at the statue of Swami Vivekananda to pay their respects. Notably, the Ekta Yatra, also termed as the Unity March was launched in December 1991 from Kanyakumari and culminated on January 26, 1992, with the hoisting of the national flag in Srinagar. The Ekta Yatra was led by veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi while Narendra Modi, then a BJP worker, served as a key pivot in ...

Jammu and Kashmir police have filed a case against 16 army soldiers, including three officers, for assaulting policemen at a police station in Kupwara district. Five police personnel, including the Station House Officer, were injured in the incident, official sources said. A video purportedly showing the soldiers storming inside the police station late Tuesday evening was widely shared on social media. The army has denied assaulting the cops and termed it an incident of "minor differences". "The reports of altercation between police and army personnel and beating of police personnel are mis-founded and incorrect. Minor differences between the police personnel and a territorial army unit on an operational matter have been amicably resolved," said a defence spokesperson. In the FIR, police have named 16 soldiers, including three officers holding the rank of Lt Colonel. They have been booked on charges of rioting, attempt to murder, and the kidnapping of policemen ...

Pakistan's key ally China has been actively bolstering the defence capabilities of the Pakistani army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir over the past three years which includes the construction of steelhead bunkers and the provision of Unmanned Aerial and Combat Aerial Vehicles, officials said today. Chinese assistance in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir or PoK also extends to the installation of highly encrypted communication towers and the laying of underground fibre cables along the Line of Control (LoC). Moreover, advanced radar systems of Chinese origin, such as the 'JY' and 'HGR' series, have been deployed to enhance medium and low altitude target detection capabilities, providing crucial intelligence support for army and air defence units, officials told Press Trust of India. Additionally, the presence of the SH-15, a 155 mm truck-mounted howitzer gun manufactured by a Chinese firm, has been noticed at various locations along the LoC. This mov...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during an exclusive interview with NDTV, said that scrapping of Article 370 helped strengthen democracy in Jammu and Kashmir. He said the move sent a clear message to the people of the Valley that they are a part of India. "Modi ji scrapped Article 370 and sent a message to Valley that you are a part of India and India belongs to you, you belong to India. I believe because of this the foundation of democracy there got stronger, and not just Lok Sabha polls even panchayat polls there there was 90 per cent voting. I believe it is a huge achievement and every Indian should welcome this," Mr Shah said during a conversation with NDTV's editor-in-chief Sanjay Pugalia. Elaborating, Mr Shah said that the BJP government has been so successful in the region that even members of separatist organisations are now casting their votes. "Some people of Jamaat e-Islami and Hurriyat voted and said they voted under Indian Constitution since there is no...

Large parts of northern and central India were in the grip of extreme heatwave conditions on Tuesday with the mercury crossing 50 degrees Celsius in Rajasthan's Churu and Haryana's Sirsa and settling nine notches above normal in Delhi. At least three weather stations in Delhi recorded maximum temperatures of 49 degrees Celsius or more. Mungeshpur and Narela in Delhi clocked 49.9 degrees followed by Najafgarh at 49.8 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. This was the highest maximum temperature recorded in the capital this season. However, Mungeshpur and Narela weather stations came up in 2022 and have records only for the last three years. The IMD said respite from the heatwave conditions could be in sight after May 30. It said that a fresh western disturbance was expected over parts of northwest India on Thursday which could bring isolated rainfall over the region on the weekend. IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra has attributed the heatw...

Many social media users recently shared a video of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk claiming that he demanded a referendum for Kashmir. In its investigation, the PTI Fact Check Desk found that a selected short part of Mr Wangchuk's recent interview was taken out of context and shared on social media with misleading claims. Sonam Wangchuk, a renowned engineer and environmentalist, recently led a 21-day fast in sub-zero temperatures over his demands of statehood for Ladakh and its inclusion in the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, among others. Claim A Facebook user shared a video on May 19 of Sonam Wangchuk claiming that he demanded a plebiscite for Kashmir. The video's caption read: "True colours of Magsaysay Award now coming out... Dubious Activist Sonam Wangchuk in Leh demanding a plebiscite for Kashmir. Now, he has become a separatist. The environmentalist was just a mask." Here is the link and archive link to the post, and below is a screenshot of the sa...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Article 370 was neither the agenda of the people of Kashmir nor of the country but only of "four-five families" and that it is a matter of greatest satisfaction for him that the brothers and sisters in Kashmir came forward to vote with great enthusiasm in the Lok Sabha polls. In an exclusive interview with the news agency ANI, the Prime Minister said there is a feeling of more unity with the removal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, the feeling of belongingness is increasing and the result is visible in the elections and in the increase in tourism. "Article 370 was the agenda of only four-five families, it was neither the agenda of the people of Kashmir nor the agenda of the people of the country. For their benefit, they had built such a wall of 370 and used to say that if 370 is removed, there will be a fire...Today it has become true that after the removal of 370, there is a feeling of more unity. The feeling of belonging...

A video depicting a large crowd chasing and attacking a man in a yellow turban is circulating widely on social media. The claim accompanying the video suggests that the man being assaulted is Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. The video was shared on X (formerly Twitter) with a Hindi caption that translates to "Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann was thrashed in Punjab."  However, the video in question is not related to Punjab or Mr Mann. Fact Check A reverse image search of keyframes from the viral video led fact checker Logicall Facts to a longer version posted on Facebook by JK Rozana News on April 13, 2024. The Hindi description translates to "Breaking Jammu-Uproar in Yuva Jat Sabha rally, Amandeep Singh Boparai attacked." Amandeep Singh Boparai is a social activist and president of the Yuva Jatt Sabha, an organization dedicated to the welfare and upliftment of the Jatt community in Jammu and Kashmir. Following this lead, they searched for news reports abo...

Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai on Monday called J Jayalalithaa, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and AIADMK supremo, a Hindutva leader and claimed that she wanted the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and was also in the support of constructing Ram Temple. While speaking with ANI, K Annamalai said, "I think they (AIADMK) all have to get education on what Hindutva is. I think Jayalalithaa would have been extremely angry with them for the AIADMK's definition of Hindutva." Annamalai also talked about Jayalalithaa and asserted that she wanted the scrapping of Article 370 in Kashmir. He said, "Jayalalithaa wanted Article 370 to be abolished... She supported the Uniform Civil Code, she wanted Ram Setu to be declared a national monument." Annamalai added further, "She said the dismissal of BJP government in states over Babri Masjid demolition was wrong. She was a person who made AIADMK cadres to get 20 lakh signatures for the building of t...

The Election Commission on Monday said Jammu and Kashmir recorded the highest voter turnout in a Lok Sabha poll in last 35 years, with the Kashmir Valley witnessing a "massive" 30 points jump in poll participation compared to 2019. "This active participation is a huge positive for the assembly elections to be held soon so that the democratic process continues to thrive in the Union Territory," said Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar while responding to the turnout. The poll panel also said the combined voter turnout at the polling stations for the entire Union Territory with five Lok Sabha seats was 58.46 per cent. On Saturday, CEC Kumar had told PTI Video that encouraged by the voter turnout in Jammu and Kashmir in the Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission will "very soon" initiate the process of holding the assembly polls in the Union Territory. The three seats in the Valley -- Srinagar, Baramulla and Anantnag-Rajouri -- recorded turnout of 3...

Sending a tough message, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that no family member of any terrorist nor close relatives of stone pelters will get government jobs in Jammu and Kashmir. Mr Shah also said that the Narendra Modi government has not only targeted terrorists but also eliminated the terror ecosystem, resulting in a drastic fall in terror incidents in the country. "In Kashmir, we have taken a decision that if someone joins a terrorist organisation, their family members will not get any government job," he told PTI in an interview over the weekend. Similarly, Mr Shah said, if someone indulges in stone pelting, his family members will also not get a government job. ALSO READ |  J&K Lok Sabha Election Over, Next Step Assembly Election: Amit Shah He said some human rights activists went to the Supreme Court against the decision but, at the end, the government prevailed. The home minister, however, said the government will make an exception in case someone fro...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that the Modi government's Kashmir policy has been vindicated by the successful polling in Jammu and Kashmir, where even separatists have voted "overwhelmingly", as he assured that the assembly elections in the region will be held before September 30. Once the elections are over, the government will start the process of restoring statehood to the Union Territory, Amit Shah said in an interview to PTI late Saturday. "I have said in Parliament that we will give the statehood after the assembly elections," he said, adding that everything is going according to plan, such as the surveys of the backward classes and delimitation exercise of the Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies. "We have completed the delimitation process. Because the reservation can be given only after the delimitation process is completed. Because we have to know about the status of various castes (to give reservation). That has been done. Lok Sabha ...

The Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat "shattered" the voter turnout record with 53% of voters exercising their franchise, the highest in 40 years, the Election Commission (EC) said today, adding that a record polling percentage was also logged in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar and Baramulla. With this, the three seats in the Kashmir valley - Srinagar (38.49%), Baramulla (59.1%), and Anantnag-Rajouri (53%) - recorded the highest voter turnouts "in many decades", the poll panel said. This was the first major election in the Union Territory following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution by the Centre in August 2019. The high voter turnout in the Anantnag-Rajouri seat was in sharp contrast to the poll percentage of nine registered in the 2019 election. Even the militancy-infested Zainapora Assembly segment, which saw a 2% turnout in 2019, recorded a poll percentage of 41. Addressing reporters in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir's Chief Electoral Officer...

Voting will take place today in eight seats each in Bihar and Bengal, seven in Delhi, 10 in Haryana, four in Jharkhand, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, and the final seat in Jammu & Kashmir -- Anantnag-Rajouri, where poling was moved from the third to the sixth phase. Odisha will pick representatives for 42 assembly constituencies and six Lok Sabha seats. By the end of today, election will be completed in 486 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats. Polling will also be completed in Haryana, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir. The most riveting contest will be for national capital Delhi, where the BJP swept all seven seats in 2019. This time, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party is out to prise a few with its "Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se" campaign. AAP is contesting four seats in the national capital, its ally Congress three. The phase will be crucial for NDA, which has to keep its score intact to meet its "400-plus" target. In 2019, the BJP alone won 40 of the 58 constituencies going to poll...

Hitting out at the Aam Aadmi Party over the Delhi excise policy scam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the Aam Aadmi Party is the "wholesale traders of drugs" adding that they failed to fulfil its promises related to the eradication of drugs in Punjab. Addressing an election rally in Punjab, Prime Minister Modi said," They (AAP) promised that within two months they will put an end to the trade of drugs in the state. Today drug dealers are getting licences without paying any cost. Families are being ruined here. In Delhi, they are involved in an excise policy scam. The people of Punjab have understood that the people of ' Jhaadu ' party are wholesale traders of drugs. How can they avoid getting black money from the trades of drugs?" Launching an attack on Congress over its stand on the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Prime Minister said that the opposition party does not want to give citizenship to those who suffered the horrors of partition....

Multiple social media users shared a video of a mob attacking a man wearing turban, claiming that he was Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann. In its investigation, the Desk found that the man in the video was one Amandeep Singh Boparai, president of an outfit named Yuva Jatt Sabha, who was attacked in Jammu in April this year. The video was shared on social media with a false claim.  Claim An Instagram user shared on May 13 a video of a group of men attacking a man wearing turban and policemen struggling to save him. The user claimed that the man beaten up was Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann. The caption of the post read: “देखो मुख्यमंत्री भगवत मान कि कैसे पिटाई हुई है!” An English translation of the caption read, “See how Chief Minister Bhagwat Mann has been beaten!” Here is  the link  and  archive link  to the post, and below is a screenshot of the same: Investigation Starting the investigation, the Desk ran the video through InVid Tool Search and found several keyframe...

Slogans to boycott the Lok Sabha elections were found on the walls at multiple places on Delhi University campus on Thursday, the police said, adding that two FIRs have been lodged in this connection. The slogans, such as ' Ek hi raasta Naxalbari ', were claimed by Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (BSCEM), a self-proclaimed youth organisation that posted photos of the slogans on its Instagram page on Thursday. "Under the fascist offensive, we must remember Mao Zedong's thesis that one of the magic weapons for making a revolution successful is a united front. The united front in Marxism is a broad joint forum of multiple classes based on a minimum common programme. In a country like India which is moving towards a democratic revolution, the scope for such unity is very strong," the caption read. "Unity can be achieved on the basis of anything, from a democratic transformation of the society to a revolutionary goal. Today, the country is a boiling cauldron as...

Slogans to boycott the Lok Sabha elections were found on the walls at multiple places on Delhi University campus on Thursday, the police said, adding that two FIRs have been lodged in this connection. The slogans, such as ' Ek hi raasta Naxalbari ', were claimed by Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (BSCEM), a self-proclaimed youth organisation that posted photos of the slogans on its Instagram page on Thursday. "Under the fascist offensive, we must remember Mao Zedong's thesis that one of the magic weapons for making a revolution successful is a united front. The united front in Marxism is a broad joint forum of multiple classes based on a minimum common programme. In a country like India which is moving towards a democratic revolution, the scope for such unity is very strong," the caption read. "Unity can be achieved on the basis of anything, from a democratic transformation of the society to a revolutionary goal. Today, the country is a boiling cauldron as...

Underscoring the BJPs pledge to push for resolution of the Gyanvapi and the Krishna Janmabhoomi cases, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said if his party fulfils its campaign pitch of 'ab ki baar, 400 paar' (400-plus seats) in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, it will construct temples at the birthplace of Lord Krishna in Mathura and the mosque in Varanasi. Addressing a public meeting in Jharkhand's Bokaro in favour of BJP candidate Dhullo Mahto on Wednesday, the Assam CM listed the accomplishments of the party when it won 300-plus seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. "After securing 300 seats (in 2019), Prime Minister Narendra Modi ensured that the Ram Mandir came up in Ayodhya, winning the hearts of Hindus. We freed Ram Lalla from the makeshift tent and helped him return to take his throne. We organised a grand 'Pran Pratishtha' of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. When you gave us 300 seats, PM Modi abrogated Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, in a mo...

Senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday accused the Congress and India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of "breaking the country" and asserted that PM Narendra Modi "will bring the nation together". At a poll meeting in South Delhi in support of BJP candidate Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister exuded confidence that if elected for a third time, PM Modi will take back Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK). Likening PM Modi to God's messenger, Mr Chouhan said, "He is sent by God to end evil in the country. Under his guidance, the country has prospered and is poised to become a world leader." "The Congress and Nehru, on the other hand, committed the sin of breaking the country. If (ex-PM) Nehru hadn't stopped the war (of 1947) and allowed it to continue for three more days, the entire Kashmir would have been a part of India today. There wouldn't have been any POK," he said. The BJP leader as...

The Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of review pleas filed against the Constitution Bench verdict upholding the revocation of Article 370 as valid. "Having perused the review petitions, there is no error apparent on the face of the record. No case for review under Order XLVII, Rule 1 of the Supreme Court Rules 2013. The review petitions are, therefore, dismissed," a bench, headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud, said. Further, the 5-judge Bench, also comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, B.R. Gavai, Surya Kant, and A.S. Boppana, dismissed the applications seeking listing of the review petition in open court and seeking permission to appear and argue in person. The review petition, filed under Article 137 of the Constitution, against the decision rendered on December 11, said that the impugned judgment should not have left open the question of whether the Parliament can extinguish the character of statehood by converting a state into one or more Union Territories. In its verdict d...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who is 77 years old, should retire due to his "advanced age and health issues", while promising that the BJP will make a young Odia-speaking ' bhumiputra ' the CM if the party is voted to power in the state. Mr Shah asserted that the BJP-led NDA has already bagged 310 seats after the conclusion of five phases of Lok Sabha polls and will secure its 400-target in the next two phases. Hitting out at bureaucrat-turned-politician V K Pandian, a close aide of Patnaik, without taking his name, Mr Shah said a "Tamil babu" is ruling the roost in Odisha and people will vote for the BJP to free the state from " babu raj ". Addressing back-to-back election rallies in Odisha ahead of the third phase of simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls in the state on May 25, Mr Shah said the ongoing polls are to make Narendra Modi the PM for the third term and restore Odisha...

Launching a scathing attack on the INDIA bloc, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the 'Shehzade' of the Samajwadi Party and Congress prefer to keep their interest paramount than to serve the people anything beyond their families. Addressing a public meeting in UP's Prayagraj today, PM Modi said that the people of the SP, Congress and INDIA bloc cannot digest the praise of India. "The people of the SP-Congress and INDI alliance cannot digest the praise of India. Congress Shehzada goes abroad to abuse India. On what agenda are these INDI alliance candidates fighting the elections? Their agenda is that Article 370 will be imposed again in Kashmir, CAA will be cancelled, and the strict laws made on corruption will be repealed," he said. He attacked the INDIA bloc and said that SP-Congress ke Shehzado ko apne parivar kea aage kuch nahi dikhta hai (The prince of SP-Congress prefer to ignore anything before their family). "See the example of Kumb...