The Kashmir Valley has witnessed widespread protests during which irate mobs attacked a police station, several vehicles of the police, paramilitary forces and those carrying a group of government employees returning home from the civil secretariat here.

The Jammu and Kashmir government has appointed Justice Syed Bashir-ud-Din (Retd), chairperson, J&K State Human Rights Commission, to conduct an inquiry into the Sopore incident. He has been asked to ascertain the causes of death of two local youth, Shakeel Ahmad Ganai and Firdous Ahmad Khan, who fell in CRPF firing,

The deteriorating law and order situation in parts of Kashmir Valley and increasing anger in the local population as an upshot of the recent killings in CRPF and police firings seems to have made chief minister Omar Abdullah lose his sleep. “He is perturbed and agitated,” said an aide.

At least, two protesters were killed and five others wounded on Friday when the CRPF opened fire on a mob which attacked one of its bunker (armoured) vehicles in the town of Sopore, 48-km northwest of here, during the disturbances set off by the slaying of two Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants in gunfight with the troops earlier during the day.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said on Thursday that he doesn’t believe in the political race some parties seem to be in over the Parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru’s hangin

The police in the Kashmir Valley has arrested several senior separatist leaders and activists in the latest campaign apparently prompted by upsurge in anti-India disturbances, particularly in Srinagar, during which three local youth were killed in police and CRPF actions. A major portion of the summer capital remained under

Last week, thousands of pandit expatriates relocated to Khirbhawani, the most revered place of worship of the Kashmiri brahmins located at Tulla Mulla, 27-km north of capital Srinagar, for the annual

Another Srinagar youth was killed and four others wounded when CRPF personnel opened fire to quell a mob which allegedly attacked one of its pillboxes at Noorbagh in central Srinagar on Sunday.

Thousands of Kashmiri Pandit expatriates and other devotees turned up at the annual Kheer Bhawani mela at Tulla Mulla, 27-km north of here, on Saturday.
Kheer Bhawani is the most revered place of worship for Kashmiri brahmins and the fair marks the annual pilgrimage to the sacred spring to seek the blessings of G

Surging crowds protesting the killing of a local teenage student allegedly in police action defied curfew to join his funeral here on Saturday.