News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
We will approach MHA and try to work out an arrangement where the genuine user doesn't suffer and security is not also compromised," an official spokesman said, terming the ban effective from tomorrow as not a positive development. The ban came in...
News Source: Time of India
| about 1 month ago
Pre-paid mobile connections are banned in Jammu and Kashmir from November 1 and the government may decide to extend the ban to the northeast sooner rather than later. The move comes as the government found that such connections were being given out...
News Source: Hindu
| about 1 month ago
The Union government has banned pre-paid mobile connections in Jammu and Kashmir, citing security related reasons...Chidambaram on Friday said besides the ban, the existing pre-paid SIM cards would not be renewed after November 1. The Home Ministry...
News Source: Sify News
| about 1 month ago
Terming the decision to ban pre-paid mobile phone connections in Jammu and Kashmir as 'unfortunate and ill-advised', the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Friday sought intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to restore the service in...
News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| about 1 month ago
Kashmir today, state television reported, following concerns that militants were using them to trigger bombs and hide their identities. Mobile phones were launched in Kashmir only in 2003 after security agencies gave the go-ahead, but pre-paid...
News Source: Rediff
| about 1 month ago
In some cases, a single person had been issued with multiple connections. The vendors are also reportedly using the fake documents/identity numbers, particularly, in the case of pre-paid connections. This situation had given rise to serious security...