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Article 370 of the Indian constitution[a] gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, a region located in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent and part of the larger region of Kashmir which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pakistan and China since 1947. [4][5] Jammu and Kashmir was administered by India as a state from 17 N...
Aug 5, 2019 · The administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution, a 70-year-old provision that had given autonomy to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which...
Article 370 is a constitutional provision that gave Jammu and Kashmir its special status. The provision was incorporated in Part XXI of the Constitution: Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions.
Aug 26, 2023 · Article 370 is the first article of Part XXI of the Constitution - ‘Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions’. It exempts J&K from the application of the Constitution of India (except Article 1 and Article 370 itself) and permits the state to draft its own Constitution.
Oct 7, 2022 · It is observed that India has used Article 370 at least 45 times to extend the provisions of the Constitution of India to Jammu and Kashmir. Article 370 is the only way through which, by just one Presidential order, India has almost nullified the effect of the state’s special status.
Article 370 was incorporated into the Constitution of India as a temporary provision, with the intention of providing a framework for negotiations between the Indian government and the leadership of Jammu and Kashmir to determine the state's final political status.
Aug 5, 2019 · India's BJP-led government is hailing its decision to strip the state of Jammu and Kashmir of autonomy after seven decades, characterising it as the correction of a "historical blunder". The BBC's...
Dec 11, 2023 · What is Article 370? Article 370, which came into effect in October 1949, granted Kashmir autonomy of internal administration, allowing it to make its own laws in all matters except...
1 day ago · Ram Madhav writes: Don’t cry over Article 370. Resolution by J&K assembly on restoration of special status is futile and duplicitous. The history of Article 370 demonstrates the deceptive politics practised by both Congress and National Conference in the last seven decades. There was a futile tamasha in the Jammu and Kashmir legislature last ...
Dec 13, 2023 · The Supreme Court observed that the decision taken on 5 th August 2019 to abrogate Article 370 which ended the special status of the erstwhile state of J&K, was done to enhance constitutional integration and not disintegration. The Court has also recognised the fact that Article 370 was not permanent in nature.
