Union Home Minister Amit Shah also planted a sapling in the memory of the Pulwama terror attack martyrs.

Amit Shah, who extended his three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, stayed for the night at the CRPF Campus in Lethpora in Pulwama where a suicide car bomb attack by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists in February 2019 had left 40 paramilitary personnel dead.

Dr. Farooq Sahib has suggested that we should talk to Pakistan. Let me clarify, if we will talk, we will talk to people of Jammu and Kashmir and its youth only, no one else, Amit Shah said.

Home Minister Amit Shah, after removing the shield, said that he wanted to speak to the people of Jammu and Kashmir directly.

Nearly 3,000 Kashmiri Pandit employees recruited under the prime minister's special recruitment package have been appointed in the valley since 2010. 

Amit Shah's visit comes amid several incidents of killings of civilians by the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir which is sparking fear in the valley.

Addressing a public rally in Bhagwati Nagar area of Jammu city, Home Minister Amit Shah said, "The monopoly of three families is over once and forever."

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "When PM invited political leaders from Kashmir at his residence, I had demanded that we'd like to have statehood followed by the elections. Other parties also demanded. Home Minister assured us that statehood will be granted and delimitation commission will give the report."

Addressing the rally in the Bhagwati Nagar area, Amit Shah said no one will now be able to create any hurdle in the development of Jammu and Kashmir.

Terrorism decreased, corruption and dynastic politics ended and an era of peace, development, prosperity started on August 5, 2019, said Amit Shah.

Shah is on a three-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019.

Amit Shah is on his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir since Article 370 was revoked in August 2019.

  Shah's visit to Kashmir comes in the backdrop of 11 civilian killings in the valley in October alone. Five of those killed were labourers from Bihar, while three, including two teachers, belonged to minority communities in Kashmir.

Ahead of Home Minister's visit to the union territory, several traffic restrictions have been imposed in Srinagar including those driving two-wheelers subjected to intensive security checks.

This will be Amit Shah's 1st visit to Jammu and Kashmir after abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state into 2 Union Territories.

Three days of incessant rains have left a trail of death and devastation in Uttarakhand killing 52 people, damaging roads, bridges and railway tracks besides destroying the standing crops.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Jammu and Kashmir on October 23 and 24. This will be his first visit to J&K since the state was bifurcated into two Union Territories and Article 370 was scrapped.

The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) informed that it has incurred an estimated loss of Rs 13.67 crore due to the downpour in the state.

State ministers K Rajan, Roshy Augustine and VN Vasavan participated in a review meeting to assess the situation arising due to heavy rains in the state, at Mundakkayam in Kottayam this morning.

Inaugurating several projects here, Shah said that Andaman and Nicobar Islands should be the pilgrim centre for the Indian freedom movement, and youths of the country should know about the sufferings of the revolutionaries during 'Kala Pani' punishment in the archipelago, an official release said.