{"id":12937,"date":"2020-01-15T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T08:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/internet-partially-restored-kashmir-social-media-ban-stays"},"modified":"2020-01-15T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T08:24:02","slug":"internet-to-be-partially-restored-in-kashmir-but-social-media-ban-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12937","title":{"rendered":"Internet to be partially restored in Kashmir but social media ban stays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals, banks and travel companies to get broadband after five-month shutdown<\/p>\n<p>Internet is to be partially restored in Kashmir after an unprecedented five-month blackout, but only for institutions providing \u201cessential services\u201d, while social media sites will still be banned.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to gradually reintroduce broadband internet to the disputed Himalayan region, after the longest shutdown ever imposed in a democracy, followed a supreme court ruling last week that the indefinite suspension was illegal and amounted to an abuse of power. The judges ordered a review to be carried out within a week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/internet-partially-restored-kashmir-social-media-ban-stays\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospitals, banks and travel companies to get broadband after five-month shutdownInternet is to be partially restored in Kashmir after an unprecedented five-month blackout, but only for institutions providing \u201cessential services\u201d, while social media sit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,351,432,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-internet","category-kashmir","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12949,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions\/12949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}