NEWS & REPORTS FROM THE HOUSE OF JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

Posted: 31 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT
Gopika Gopakumar
BANNED CURRENCYMumbai: According to Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) annual report released Wednesday, 98.96% of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes (by value) that were invalidated due to the demonetisation exercise had been returned by the end of June.
The numbers put to rest one of the big mysteries surrounding the demonetisation exercise, which, according to some analysts, was one of the reasons behind the Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide win in this year’s elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The RBI annual report said that “subject to future corrections based on verification process when completed,” the estimated value of the banned notes it “received” was Rs 15.28 trillion. This compares with the Rs 15.44 trillion of the invalidated notes that were in circulation as of 8 November, according to data provided by minister of state for finance Arjun Meghwal to Parliament on 21 January.
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise announcement of the invalidation of old high-value currency notes on 8 November, estimates suggested that around Rs 3 trillion would not return to the banking system because it was unaccounted or black money. While defending demonetisation in the Supreme Court in November, then attorney general Mukul Rohatgi said around Rs 4-5 trillion would probably not find its way back into the system.
By December, though, it was clear that tax evaders had managed to legalize their unaccounted money using mules and proxies to make deposits, made high-value purchases using back-dated bills and colluded with bank officials to exchange old currency.

With RBI’s data showing that most of the money has returned to the system, the opposition was quick to criticise the government. The Congress said RBI’s report was proof that demonetisation had “utterly failed”.
Measuring the success of demonetisation on the basis of how much cash has come into the system shows “an inadequate understanding”, finance minister Arun Jaitley said.
Indeed, “the fact that the entire demonetised money has come back shows black money has been accounted for completely. In that sense, demonetisation has been a success,” said R. Gandhi, former deputy governor of RBI. It is now up to the tax department to do its job, he added. In January, the government decided to use data analytics to identify people whose deposits didn’t match their known sources of income.
In his Independence Day speech this year, Prime Minister Modi said that more than Rs 1.75 trillion deposited in banks after demonetisation was under the scanner.
“The trail of deposits” of bank notes “into bank accounts may provide valuable information to the revenue authorities in tracing unaccounted money”, RBI said in its annual report.

Interestingly, RBI’s annual report shows a spike in the number of so-called suspicious transaction reports filed by banks, financial institutions and intermediaries. Banks filed 361,214 such reports in 2016-17, up from 61,361 the previous year. This is evidence that people have been forced to deposit money “illegitimately lying with them”, Jaitley said in a press briefing after the release of the RBI annual report.
A banker, who asked not to be identified, said the spike in suspicious transaction reports was exclusively because of demonetisation, although he added that at least some of these could end up being genuine transactions.
Defending demonetisation, Jaitley said its major objectives— a “less cash economy”, digitization, formalisation of the economy, widening the tax base, curbing terror financing, tracking black money, and clamping down on counterfeit currency—had been met.
“The effect of demonetisation in all these areas have been extremely positive,” he added.
According to RBI, the volume of cash in the banking system has come down by 17%. Total currency in circulation fell from Rs 17.77 trillion on 8 November to Rs 14.75 trillion on 4 August, according to the finance ministry.
The invalidation also resulted in an increase in digital transactions. In a note, the finance ministry said that number of digital transactions increased 56% between October 2016 and May 2017 to 1.1 billion. The demonetisation exercise was announced on 8 November 2016.
RBI detected 762,072 fake notes compared to 632,926 pieces a year ago. However, the total value of these fake currency notes amounts to a meagre Rs 43 crore.
The ministry’s note added that demonetisation had resulted in a 24.5% increase in the number of income tax returns filed till 5 August.
The RBI annual report also sheds further light on other aspects of the demonetisation move such as its costs. The cumulative effect of the decrease in income and increase in expenditure effectively halved RBI’s net profit to Rs 30,663 crore from Rs 65,880 crore a year ago. The central bank transferred almost its entire profit to the government.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2017 01:55 AM PDT
Ankara: A bomb placed in a garbage container exploded in Turkey’s Izmir province on the Aegean coast on Thursday, wounding several people on a shuttle bus, the private Dogan news agency said.
State-run TRT Haber news channel said the explosion took place at around 8 am local time, adding that six people on a shuttle bus were wounded.
Television images showed the shattered windows of a broken shuttle bus and other damaged cars close to the explosion site.
Kurdish militants and jihadist Islamic State militants have carried out suicide and bomb attacks in major Turkish cities during the recent years.TURKY
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Posted: 31 Aug 2017 01:48 AM PDT
PTI
ISROChennai: The countdown for the launch of navigation satellite IRNSS-1H from Sriharikota later on Thursday, to augment the existing seven satellites of the NavIC constellation, is progressing well, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) officials said.
The 29-hour countdown began on Wednesday at 2pm and scientists are currently involved in filling up the propellants, the officials said, adding that the countdown is progressing well.
The mission readiness review (MRR) committee and launch authorisation board (LAB) had on 29 August cleared the countdown.
The launch vehicle PSLV-C39, carrying the 1,425kg satellite, is scheduled for a lift-off at 7pm from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota, about 110km from Chennai.
The spacecraft was built and tested by Isro along with a consortium of six small and medium industries.

IRNSS-1H would be a back-up navigation satellite for IRNSS-1A—one of the seven satellites of the constellation—as its three rubidium atomic clocks on-board had stopped functioning.
The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is an independent regional system developed by India on par with the US-based Global Positioning System (GPS), Glonass of Russia, and Galileo developed by Europe.
The system, which offers services like terrestrial and marine navigation, disaster management, vehicle tracking and fleet management, navigation aide for hikers and travellers, visual and voice navigation for drivers, was named ‘NavIC’ (Navigation with Indian Constellation) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The seven navigation satellites launched earlier by Isro are IRNSS-1G (28 April 2016); IRNSS-1F (10 March 2016); IRNSS-1E (20 January 2016), IRNSS-1D (28 March 2015), IRNSS-1C (16 October 2014), IRNSS-1B (4 April 2014); and IRNSS-1A (1 July 2013).
According to Isro officials, the total cost of all the seven satellites was Rs1,420 crore.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2017 01:37 AM PDT
PTI
arunjaitleyNew Delhi: Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday put private sector debtors on notice saying they will have to pay their dues to banks or allow somebody else to step in and take control of the business.
Using the new bankruptcy law, the central bank has prodded banks to initiate insolvency proceedings against 12 large corporate defaulter to resolve Rs 2 lakh crore or almost a fourth of the country’s bad debt. More defaulters are being notified for action.
Jaitley said the government was open to providing more capital to banks but cleaning up stressed loans was bigger priority.
“Through the bankruptcy law, I think this is the first time that debtors in India are being taken to task,” he said at the Economist Summit in New Delhi. Jaitley said bad loan resolution process will take time.
“You can’t have a surgical solution to this.” “A very easy solution to suggest is tax payers must pay because the private sector has defaulted,” he said, adding bank recapitalisation, where the government puts in more capital in public sector banks to shore up their books, effectively amounted to that. “Therefore, I think let’s try and make the private sector pay for their debts or allow somebody else to step in,” he said.

The government, he said, has already put in Rs70,000 crore in banks as capital and is “open” to putting in more money. There is also a possibility of some banks raising resources from markets, he said.
“We are also at an active stage going for consolidation. We don’t need so many public sector banks. We need fewer but stronger banks,” he said.
The Union cabinet had last week decided to speed up mergers among 21 public sector banks (PSBs) to scale efficiencies and improve the quality of corporate governance.
However, the absent fresh capital infusions from the government, had cast doubts if such mergers would improve public-sector banks’ weak capitalisation.
Jaitley said putting in more money at a later stage is a possibility. The government owns majority stakes in 21 banks and merger of some of them is being considered for broader economic revival. These lenders hold around 74% of all deposits.

On interest rates, Jaitley said every finance minister wants interest rates to go down. “That’s been constantly the desire of everyone. But then at the end of the day, the regime and the system we have is that the finance ministry or North Block does not have the last word in this. Therefore we will live with the regime that we have,” he said.
The Reserve Bank sets benchmark borrowing and repurchase rates, which are used as a reference by banks to decide on interest rates.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2017 01:29 AM PDT
A Staff Writer
DemontisationWhile the jury is out on the costs and benefits of demonetisation, for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) at least, the note ban was one of the key reasons for lower profits. To that limited extent, the government also had to bear the brunt in the form of the lower dividend it received from the central bank. RBI paid only Rs30,663 crore as dividend compared to Rs65,880 crore a year ago.
Here’s how the math works:
RBI’s income for its financial year ending 30 June fell 23.56% to Rs61,818 crore. It’s income fell because of a couple of reasons.
One, the central bank’s income from foreign sources fell 35.3% because of the appreciation of the rupee and the lower yield on foreign currency assets. This was lower at 0.8% in 2016-17 compared to 1.3% a year earlier.
Two, net income from domestic sources fell 17.11%. This was largely because RBI had to pay interest of Rs17,426 crore as it mopped up excess liquidity in the banking system after people rushed to deposit invalidated currency notes at banks. The previous year, the RBI earned an interest of Rs506 crore in its liquidity management operations.

On the expenditure side, the central bank spent Rs7,965 crore on printing currency notes in 2016-17, more than double the Rs3,420 crore spent a year ago. In its efforts to quickly remonetise the economy, the RBI issued 29 billion currency note pieces in 2016-17 compared to 21.2 billion a year earlier.
“The upsurge in expenditure during the year was on account of change in the production plan of printing presses due to the introduction of new design notes in higher denominations as well as the requirement of larger volume of notes for replacement of the demonetised currency,” the central bank said in it annual report.
“To ensure availability of banknotes across the country at the shortest possible time subsequent to the demonetisation, banknotes had to be frequently air-lifted from the presses.”
The second large expense was the Rs13,100 crore provision that the central bank made towards it contingency fund. This fund is for meeting unexpected and unforeseen requirements such as a depreciation in the value of securities, risks arising out of monetary/exchange rate policy operations, systemic risks etc.
The RBI doesn’t say exactly why it topped up the fund. However, in 2013-2014, a committee headed by Y.H. Malegam had suggested that the central bank can transfer its entire surplus to the government, without allocating anything to its various reserve funds, for three years because it had adequate reserve funds. That three-year period ended last year.

Moreover, the contingency fund and asset development fund put together make up only 7.6% of the RBI balance sheet now compared to 10.1% in 2013.
In the final analysis, putting it simplistically, RBI’s extra interest expenses of Rs17,426 crore, the extra printing cost of Rs4,545 crore and provision of Rs13,100 crore together make up just about the Rs35,217 crore decrease in net profit.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2017 01:19 AM PDT



Mayank Aggarwal
CowNew Delhi: Complaints against cow slaughter, poor facilities for animals and tax benefits to slaughter houses topped the list of grievances sent to the environment ministry, a government study found.
These complaints account for 20% of all public grievances sent to the ministry, according to the study.
The study recommended making waste collection a part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and also suggested that emission rates be “mentioned mandatorily on the cars to create awareness on environmental impact”.
The ‘Grievance Analysis and Systematic Reforms Report’ of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) was released by Union minister of state for ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions Jitendra Singh last week
The study by Quality Council of India (QCI), a body set up by the government and the industry, for DARPG was conducted from August 2016 to March 2017. The data reviewed by the study is from April 2015 to March 2016. During the period, a total of 9,490 grievances were received by the environment ministry and of those a sample of 950 was taken up for the study. The grievances were received through the central government’s Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System.

According to the report, complaints against industrial and vehicular pollution accounted for 17% of the grievances. Grievances against pollution control were related to industrial discharge and emissions due to burning wastes and vehicles, inefficiency in issuing Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificates.
A 2016 report by the World Health Organisation found that 10 out of the top 20 most polluted cities in the world were in India.
Meanwhile, the next most pressing environmental issues for people after pollution were deforestation (13%); waste management and plastic regulation (13%); and rhino poaching (5%).
Grievances related to deforestation included complaints about tree cutting for road construction, wood and other products and poor response from the forest department. The complaints against waste management included concerns about insufficient provision to dispose of and recycle different types of waste, burning of waste due to poor disposal mechanism and requests to ban polythene bags.
Waste management is among the biggest environmental concerns faced by India today. According to official estimates, around 62 million tonnes of solid waste is generated every year but only 43 million tonnes is collected and only 12 millions tonnes is treated. Similarly, 15,000 tonnes of plastic waste is generated per day, but of that, only 9,000 tonnes is collected and processed.

The study noted that “the construction and maintenance of animal shelters falls under the jurisdiction of the state governments” and “essential measures to address grievances pertaining to cow slaughter and rhino poaching in Assam have already been undertaken by the government”.
Stating that environmental policies and schemes directly impact each citizen, the study said, it is of utmost importance that the process is streamlined, and monitoring is strict.
It recommended that systematic reforms, including reducing manual intervention in PUC certification, ranking industrial corridors and cities to induce competitiveness and generating awareness about environmental issues, and empowering communities to check discharge of industries in their region, be undertaken.
The study also suggested collaborating with the Union ministry of rural development to make waste collection a part of the rural jobs programme.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2017 01:10 AM PDT
Matthew Tostevin
ChinaVietnamBeijing: Cyber spies working for or on behalf of China’s government have broadened attacks against official and corporate targets in Vietnam at a time of raised tension over the South China Sea, cyber security company FireEye said.
FireEye told Reuters the attacks happened in recent weeks and it had traced them back to suspected Chinese cyber spies based partly on the fact that a Chinese group it had identified previously had used the same infrastructure before.
“Where China has often focused on the government before, this shows they are really hitting the full commercial sector potentially in Vietnam and trying to gather a broad base of information there,” said Ben Read, who heads FireEye’s cyber espionage team.
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China opposed all forms of illegal internet activities or stealing of secrets and also opposed any accusations from any side against any country on the issue without cast-iron proof.
Vietnamese foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said cyber attacks should be severely punished in accordance with the law and that it was important for countries to secure their networks.

Vietnam denies allowing cyber espionage although it has also been accused by FireEye of carrying out attacks.
Strains
Tension between China and neighbouring Vietnam is at its highest in three years over the disputed South China Sea, where Vietnam has emerged as the most vocal opponents of Beijing’s extensive claims.
Vietnam suspended oil drilling in offshore waters that are also claimed by China in July under pressure from Beijing.
China has appeared uneasy at Vietnam’s efforts to rally Southeast Asian countries over the South China Sea as well as at its growing defence relationships with the United States, Japan and India.

China claims nearly all the South China Sea, through which an estimated $3 trillion in international trade passes each year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan also have claims.
FireEye said the attacks in Vietnam involved sending users documents in Vietnamese which appeared to be requests for financial information. A broad range of companies appeared to have been targeted, including financial institutions, it said without giving specific details.
When the user opened them, they delivered malware which could infect a computer and send back information to the cyber spies, potentially letting them into the computer network too.
FireEye linked the attacks to a team it calls Conimes because in the past it used the conimes.com domain. The team focuses on Southeast Asia, but its main target is Vietnam and even more so since tensions rose over the South China Sea, Read said.
He was unable to say exactly what information had been gathered.
Vietnamese president Tran Dai Quang called earlier this month for tighter Internet controls to provide better protection against cyber threats as well as to prevent websites and social media publishing material damaging to the communist party.
Read said the attacks it had discovered on Vietnam were relatively unsophisticated and relied on users having pre-2012 versions of Microsoft Word.
“They are using comparatively simple techniques because apparently they work,” he said. Reuters
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Posted: 31 Aug 2017 01:04 AM PDT
Washington: The Trump administration has notified Congress that it has given $225 million worth of conditional military assistance to Pakistan that the country can access only if it takes more action against terror groups.
The announcement comes over a week after President Donald Trump hit out at Pakistan for providing safe havens to terror groups that kill Americans in Afghanistan.
He also warned Pakistan that it has “much to lose” by harbouring terrorists. The Trump administration notified Congress on Wednesday that it was putting $255 million in military assistPak armyance to Pakistan into the equivalent of an escrow account that Islamabad can only access if it does more to crack down on internal terror networks launching attacks on neighbouring Afghanistan, The New York Times reported.
An escrow account is an account of conditional deposition where the funds are kept blocked until the pre-agreed conditions are met. The move comes, at a time when the relationship between the two countries have strained.
Pakistan has cancelled at least three high profile meetings with senior American officials, including a visit of Pakistan foreign minister Khawaja Asif to the US to meet secretary of state Rex Tillerson.

Pakistan National Assembly passed a resolution alleging that the recent statements of the US President and his senior officials on Pakistan were hostile and threatening. The US, however, insists that it wants Pakistan to take action against terrorist groups.
According to the report, State department officials have said Trump’s promised changes will bring “explicit” conditions on military aid.
“Once Pakistan more aggressively pursues the Taliban and Haqqani network, the aid will be released — a determination to be made by Secretary of State Tillerson,” officials were quoted by the report as saying.
The $255 million in military assistance was the largest portion of $1.1 billion in aid authorised by Congress in 2016 that also included money for counter narcotics operations and health initiatives, the daily reported. The US has provided Pakistan more than $33 billion in aid since 2002.
“If the state department had failed to notify Congress in the next few weeks of its intention to spend the money, it would have been returned to the United States treasury,” it said. Early in the day, the state department said it wants Pakistan take decisive action against terrorist groups and safe havens.

“We value our cooperation with Pakistan and want to see it continue,” a state department spokesperson told PTI. “The President has been clear that we are looking to the Pakistani government to take decisive action against militant groups based in Pakistan that are a threat to the region. It is vital to US interests that Pakistan prevent terrorist sanctuaries,” the spokesperson said.
After Trump’s policy announcement last week, there has been sharp reaction from Pakistan, which has accused the US of making unjustified allegations against it. PTI
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Posted: 31 Aug 2017 12:47 AM PDT
Shreya Agarwal
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give the Singh brothers (Malvinder and Shivinder, the original promoters of Ranbaxy and Fortis) permission to sell Fortis shares. It also refused permission to banks with whom the Singhs have pledged Fortis shares to do the same.
Shares of Fortis were down 6.6% at 12.30pm, reacting to the court’s order.
On 11 August, the court had asked companies controlled by the Singhs to not sell shares in Fortis. The Singhs subsequently approached the apex court on 23 August asking for permission to sell shares in Fortis already pledged with the banks.
In Thursday’s order, the Supreme Court restrained the Singhs from disposing off any of their assets (both encumbered and unencumbered) till the final disposal of the case on 31 October. Encumbered assets are those pledged or offered as collateral to a lender.
The court’s 11 August order was in response to a plea by Daiichi Sankyo Ltd. That plea followed a 21 June order by the Delhi high court that cleared the way for the Singhs to potentially sell a stake in Fortis Healthcare Ltd, on the condition that the disclosed value of their unencumbered assets remained unaffected.

Daiichi bought Ranbaxy Laboratories from the Singhs in 2008 for $4.6 billion. In 2014, it sold Ranbaxy to Sun Pharmaceuticals for $3.2 billion. By then it had already launched arbitration proceedings against the Singhs in Singapore, alleging that they withheld information on Ranbaxy (and its problems with the US Food and Drug Administration) at the time of the deal.
In 2016, the Singapore arbitration court ordered the Singhs to pay up Rs2,562 crore in damages to Daiichi. The total value of their dues after interest addition and legal fees came to Rs3,500 crore.
Since then, Daiichi and the Singhs have been locked in litigation over the enforcement of the Singapore court’s award.
The Japanese company has sought to block efforts by the Singhs to sell their stake in Fortis Helthcare Holding Ltd, held through holding companies RHC Holding Pvt. Ltd and Oscar Investments Ltd.
Fortis Healthcare Holding, in turn, owns around 37% of Fortis Healthcare Ltd (down from around 52% in June).

IHH Healthcare Bhd, Asia’s largest private hospital operator, is set to buy a controlling stake in Fortis Healthcare and SRL Diagnostics from billionaire brothers Malvinder and Shivinder Mohan Singh in a deal that values the two companies at close to $2.9 billion, Mint reported in June, citing two people familiar with the matter. The deal is yet to close.
On Thursday, Yes Bank and Axis Bank, which hold mortgaged shares of Fortis against loans to the company, prayed before the court to be allowed to dispose off the same. The bench led by justice Ranjan Gogoi, however, has restrained them from selling off the shares.
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Posted: 31 Aug 2017 12:02 AM PDT
कश्मीर, कहते है कि धरती पर अगर कहीं स्वर्ग है तो बस कश्मीर में ही है। कश्मीर की खूबसूरत वादियां, सफेद जमीन को चीरती हुई हरियाली, कहीं दूर पहाड़ों के बीच में से अपने तेज बहाव पर इतराके आती हुई नदी, ये सुंदर दृश्य देखने को ही बनता है। लेकिन ये जन्नत, ये स्वर्ग आज नर्क बन गया है। कही गोलियों की धमक तो कही बहता हुआ लोगों का खून, तो कही नकाबपोश लोगों का पत्थर फेंकना। ये सब इस स्वर्ग को नरक बनाता है। आखिर क्या कारण है इसका, क्या कहानी है ? आज मैं अपने इस लेख में कश्मीर मुद्दे के पीछे की हकीकत का संक्षिप्त वर्णन करने का प्रयास करूंगा।
1947 भारत अंग्रेजी हुकूमत से आजाद हुआ, और साथ ही अस्तित्व में आया पाकिस्तान। भारतीय स्वतंत्रता एक्ट 1947 के अनुसार सभी रियासतों को निर्णय करना था कि वह भारत से जुड़ना चाहेंगे या पाकिस्तान से जुड़ना चाहेंगे। तत्कालीन समय में जम्मू-कश्मीर देश की सबसे बड़ी रियासत थी, और महाराजा हरि सिंह इस रियासत के शासक थे। हरि सिंह ने तय किया कि वे न तो भारत के साथ विलय करेंगे और न पाकिस्तान के साथ, लेकिन पाकिस्तान को यकीन था कि हरि सिंह पाकिस्तान के साथ विलय कर लेगे। हरि सिंह के द्वारा माना करने पर पाकिस्तान ने अपना असली रंग दिखाया।
पाकिस्तान ने उस समय सबसे पहली बार पीठ पर वार किया और लगातार आज तक कर रहा है। पाकिस्तान ने अपनी सेना को पश्तून आक्रमणकारियों के रूप में जम्मू-कश्मीर पर कब्ज़ा करने भेजा। इन सभी आक्रमणकारियों ने जम्मू-कश्मीर के कुछ स्थानीय मुस्लिम समुदाय से संबंधित लोगों के साथ मिलकर जम्मू-कश्मीर में हाहाकार मचा दिया। हर तरफ बेगुनाह लोगों का खून बह रहा था. उस समय नेहरू सरकार तो – हम क्या करें वाली मुद्रा में – मुंह बिचकाए बैठी थी। सरदार पटेल ने गुरु गोलवलकर से मदद मांगी जो तत्कालीन समय में आरएसएस के सरसंघचालक थे। गुरुजी श्रीनगर पहुंच गये और महाराजा हरिसिंह से मिले। इसके बाद महाराजा ने कश्मीर के भारत में विलय पत्र का प्रस्ताव दिल्ली भेज दिया।
26 अक्टूबर 1947 को महाराजा हरि सिंह और भारत के बीच विलय का समझौता हुआ. लेकिन शर्त ये रखी गई की भारत अपनी सेना को भेजकर आक्रमणकारियों को जम्मू-कश्मीर से खदेड़ दे। भारतीय सेना ने कश्मीर में जाकर पाकिस्तानी आक्रमणकारियों को जम्मू-कश्मीर से खदेड़ना शुरू किया। कश्मीर मुद्दा अब तक अंतरराष्ट्रीय बन चूका था। 1 जनवरी 1948 को सयुक्त राष्ट्र की सुरक्षा परिषद के सामने यह मुद्दा रखा गया. 21 अप्रैल 1948 को सयुक्त राष्ट्र की सुरक्षा परिषद ने प्रस्ताव 47 पारित किया, जिसके तहत युद्ध पर विराम लगाने को कहा गया और पाकिस्तान को जम्मू-कश्मीर से अपनी सेना शीघ्र हटाने के निर्देश दिए।
पाकिस्तान को न चाहते हुए भी अपनी सेना जम्मू-कश्मीर से हटानी पड़ी. लेकिन उसकी नजर आज तक जम्मू-कश्मीर पर बनी हुई है। पाक ने कितनी बार कोशिश की जम्मू-कश्मीर को हथियाने की लेकिन भारत के न जाने कितने वीर जवानों ने अपनी जान देकर जम्मू-कश्मीर की रक्षा की और हर बार पाकिस्तान को हार का मुंह देखना पड़ा। हमें गर्व है अपने वीर जवानों पर उनकी शहादत पर।
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