Amit Shah: The architect of India's rightward turn may succeed Modi one day

Election News
New off a reverberating re-appointment triumph, Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined different legislators in India's frontier period parliament to extol the man on his right side.
There stood Amit Shah, Modi's go-to person for over three decades, who at that point continued to make one of the most critical declarations in contemporary Indian history: The legislature would quickly end about seven many years of self-rule in the Muslim-lion's share locale of Kashmir.
"Allow us five years, we will make it the nation's most created state," Shah announced.
The memorable discourse toward the beginning of August stamped to some degree a turning out gathering for Shah. Since quite a while ago known as one of India's best political strategists in the background, he's currently taking a more prominent in propelling a motivation since quite a while ago held by Modi's decision Bharatiya Janata Party to raise the interests of Hindus who involve around 80 percent of the nation's 1.3 billion individuals.
The moves are intended to keep the BJP in control for quite a long time to stop by endeavoring to make a brought together Hindu personality in a country customarily partitioned by rank—an advancement that dangers on a very basic level adjusting the character of India's mainstream popular government. In the event that fruitful, they could make ready for the 55-year-old Shah to one day take over from Modi, 69, as India's head administrator.

"When Modi is at last prepared to step down, Shah will obviously be a top contender to be his successor," said Michael Kugelman, senior partner for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington who has intently looked into India's governmental issues over the previous decade. "He is profoundly faithful to the gathering, happens to be near it most dominant figure, and harbors sees that are in close arrangement with the BJP's present zeitgeist.".....READ MORE

Won't survive this disaster: Kashmiri entrepreneurs share lockdown pains

International News

Haji Mohammed Ghani, 74, squatted at the border of his apple orchard, sporting a neatly trimmed, white beard, and a frown. Around him were trees laden with apples ripe for picking.
At this time of year, his orchard--in a state that produces two-thirds of India's apples, earning Rs 6,500 crore ($903 million) in exports in 2016-17, contributing to a 10th of the state’s gross domestic product (GDP) and employing 3.3 million workers--should have been buzzing with pickers and packers readying the fruits for shipment across India.
On September 8, 2019, when we visited his orchard, there was no activity.
Ghani owns five acres of land in an area famous for apple orchards, a village called Choora near the town of Sopore in Baramulla district, 55 km northwest of Srinagar. The trees yield 5,000 boxes of fruit every year, fetching Ghani a profit of Rs 5 lakh.
This year, he will settle for whatever he gets.
Since August 5, 2019, when the Centre snapped all communication lines in Kashmir--as it abrogated Section 370, which gave Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) special constitutional status--Ghani has not been able to speak to traders in Delhi, Kolkata and Patna to negotiate prices. Several traders used to come to Kashmir to collect the fruit, but they cannot make the trip this year.Some of Ghani’s apples were being sold at the Sopore fruit market but after a September 7, 2019, attack on a trader family by unknown gunmen, even that is not an option.

 “We survived the hailstorm this year but we will not be able to survive this disaster,” Ghani told IndiaSpend. Now, Srinagar’s fruit hawkers stock his apples but they pay half the normal market price...Read More