On Wednesday, while laying down the rules for domiciles, the government had reserved jobs up to group 4 only.

Eight months after the Centre revoked Article 370, which granted special status to J&K, it has now notified a law spelling out domicile of the what is now a union territory.

'A crisis of this magnitude does not recognise borders. In this spirit, the prime minister had called the SAARC video-conference on coronavirus. The platform was not political, but humanitarian. They misused it,' MEA Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.

Farooq added that he would talk about politics and make a decision on the future only after other leaders are released.

At least three former chief ministers, along with several other senior leaders, were put under house arrest, a day before the Centre moved a motion in the Parliament to abrogate Article 370

The police and security agencies were previously accused of taking away phones and cameras of journalists in the Valley

Dozens of politicians, including three former CMs -- Farooq Abdullah and his son Omar Abdullah, and Mehbooba Mufti of PDP -- were placed under preventive detention a night beofre Centre scrapped Article 370.

A Home Ministry spokesperson said the British MP had been duly informed that her visa was cancelled and she arrived in Delhi despite knowing this fact.

MEA Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said India rejected the repeated attempts by Turkey to justify the cross-border terrorism 'practised so blatantly' by Pakistan.

The air defence command is to be rolled out by the beginning of next year and the Peninsula command by the end of 2021, Gen Rawat told a select group of journalists.