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Hello and welcome to this episode of The Handshake, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about another batch of foreign delegates visiting Jammu and Kashmir. The second batch of foreign envoys will visit Jammu and Kashmir today. The visit comes a month after a delegation of ambassadors visited the Union Territory last month. The diplomats belonging to the European Union including Germany, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria and Hungary will be in Srinagar for a day on Wednesday and in Jammu on Thursday.

The number of youths joining the ranks of militancy in Kashmir has gone down "remarkably" since the nullification of provisions of Article 370 in August last year, officials have said.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, G Kishan Reddy, Spoke about the economic impact of the abrogation of Article 370 on Jammu and Kashmir. He said that the agriculture operations are going on smoothly in the valley. During FY 2019-20 (upto January 2020), 18.34 lakh MTs of fresh fruit (apples) have been dispatched. Watch the video to know more.

We all know that the Indian Armed Forces played a crucial role in securing Jammu and Kashmir from the grasp of the marauding Pakistani tribal raiders in 1948-49, but how many of you know that our forces wouldn’t have been able to secure the Ladakh region if it wasn’t for a British-trained engineer Sonam Norbu. Let’s find out more about the forgotten engineer who built the airstrip that saved Ladakh from the clutches of Pakistan in this episode of India Untold with Sunita Iyer.

JNU protests have been taking its own twists and turns across the country where Bollywood actors are using protests as an opportunity to promote their movies and Leftists using it to their advantage to bring up the long solved Kashmir issue

Prime Minister Narendra Modi iterated that policies on Kashmir will only be made by Indians, without Pakistan’s interference. The Prime Minister also blamed the Congress party for worsening the Kashmir issue all throughout its rule at the Centre.
 

India has not only resisted international scrutiny around the Kashmir move but, in fact, gone on the offensive, mobilising its public relations apparatus. From historically being a cautious power, the “New India” image it is now promulgating signals that India is now looking to take on a larger global mandate.

Currently, elections in Maharashtra are the talking point in the Country. Every party is working hard and trying to get an upper hand in the state. The same goes with the news channels and websites, they are also covering it on a big scale. So, on August 5th Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Maharashtra's Jalgaon dared the opposition to bring back Article 370. He openly challenged the other parties to make this agenda a part of their manifesto.

Article 370, which gave a special status to Jammu and Kashmir, has been scrapped, announced Home Minister Amit Shah. Here's what Bollywood celebrities have to say about the move.