India’s Hindu nationalist-led government has used a presidential order to revoke the special constitutional status of Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir state. It also had a bill passed to downgrade Jammu and Kashmir into a union territory instead of a state and turn a third region of the..…

With provision approved by the lower house of Indian, India has revoked the special status Kashmir guaranteed by Constitution. The in northwestern India, Indian state with Muslim majority, will become. ..…

In address broadcast on television and radio, the time he has spoken to the nation on the decision, Modi painted the move as one that will benefit the people of Kashmir. This week's move, tightening New Delhi's grip on the region, withdrew Muslim state's right to frame its own laws and..…

Simultaneously, the minister, Amit Shah, also announced Parliament that the government planned to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its statehood, creating instead two union territories.. Given that Muslim-majority state was about to accede to secular and Hindu-majority country, India's prime..…