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SRINAGAR:The Jammu and Kashmir Government has lifted ban on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, in Kashmir valley.

Official sources here today said that the ban on social networking sites has not been extended in Kashmir.

The ban on social media sites in Kashmir was imposed for a month in view of sprung in protests by students, triggered by a security force raid on Degree College Pulwama on April 15, when over 50 students, including girls, were injured in the clashes in educational institute.

The Home department, headed by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti had imposed the ban till May 26, citing that these social networking sites were being misused by anti-national and anti-social elements to create law and order disturbances in Kashmir.

However, the ban drew criticism from intellectuals within the country, besides global organisations, including the United Nations.

The UN had on May 11 urged the Centre to withdraw the ban on internet services and reinstate freedom of speech in the valley.

The State Government last month banned 22 social networking sites, including Facebook and WhatsApp.

However, the banned sites were accessible on all mobile networks through Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and on state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) broadband service. (AGENCIES)

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Singer Sonu Nigam has deleted his Twitter account. In a series of tweets, he announced that he would quit the social networking site and advised his fans to take a screenshot of his 24 tweets before they got deleted.

This comes after his fellow singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya's Twitter account was suspended.

Twitter has no credibility left, said actor Paresh Rawal coming out in support of Sonu Nigam.

Nigam maintains that Twitter is one-sided and he had to leave it because of its lack of respect for freedom of speech.

His comments on the morning azaan recently triggered a major controversy.

Anupam Kher too backed the singer, calling Nigam "a self-made and courageous man" and adding that he should not allow the "negativity of a few to win".

Lyricist Javed Akhtar said, "Twitter must be used for cultural exchanges. But I see most comments are hate messages and aggressive statements."

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Former head of the National Security Agency and CIA Michael Hayden said Jared Kushner's discussions about establishing a backchannel with the Kremlin were ignorant and naive, and said the notion he would do so because of distrust for the Obama administration suggests "we're in a really dark place as a society."

"Well, Michael, right now I'm going with naivete, and that's not particularly very comforting to me," Hayden said in an interview with CNN's Michael Smerconish on Saturday. "I mean what manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?"

The Washington Post reported Friday that Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a senior adviser at the White House, and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak discussed setting up a secret and secure communications channel between the Trump transition team and the Kremlin.

Kushner allegedly suggested using U.S.-based Russian diplomatic facilities for the communications to protect their discussions from any monitoring by the U.S. government, Kislyak said.

Hayden, whose career with the NSA and CIA spans three presidential administrations, said the notion that Kushner wanted to avoid monitoring suggests that Trump didn't trust the previous administration.

Actions borne out of that distrust "suggests we're in a really dark place as a society," Hayden said.

"Here you are willing to risk the perception of secret communications with your alleged co-conspirator because you feared the existing government so much," he said.

When asked what how he believed Kislyak responded to Kushner's suggestion of setting up backchannels, Hayden said the request "goes so far out of the norm that he was probably shocked."

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National Security Agency (NSA) Director Admiral Michael Rogers participates in a session at the third annual Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington, U.S., September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Gary Cameron/File Photo

Reports surfaced on Friday that National Security Agency (NSA) chief Mike Rogers told NSA workers that there is evidence that President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Former NSA agent John Schindler wrote in the New York Observer Friday that Rogers addressed an agency-wide town hall meeting this week that was broadcast to all of the agencys facilities around the world. In it, Rogers purportedly confirmed reports that came out last week alleging that Trump asked him to speak out against the Russia investigation.

Rogers, according to current NSA agents with whom Schindler claims to have spoken who has a very dodgy reputation in some circles said that he has seen intelligence information regarding contacts between Trump and the Kremlin.

There is no question that we [meaning NSA] have evidence of election involvement and questionable contacts with the Russians, the director reportedly said.

NSA employees walked out of the town hall impressed by the directors forthright discussion of his interactions with the Trump administration, particularly with how Rogers insisted that he had no desire to politicize the situation beyond what the president has already done, Schindler said.

The House and Senate Intelligence Committees should subpoena Rogers, Schindler said, and find out what he knows with regard to Trump and the 2016 campaign.

Schindler is regarded by some people as a conspiracy theorist along the lines of former Heat Street editor Louise Mensch, with whom Schindler enjoys an amiable online relationship. The two publish scoops reinforcing each other and share a common enemy in those who declare that anti-Trumpists are dabbling in red-baiting and conspiracy mongering.

However, as a former agent, Schindler has deep ties at the NSA.

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