A senior Democratic Nationalist Party leader escaped unhurt while three policemen, including his personal security officer, were killed in a militant attack on his house in Sopore town of north Kashmi

Curfew was imposed in parts of Srinagar and other towns of the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday as separatists asked the people to march to south Kashmir’s Pampore town to observe the death anniversary of

The people of Leh and its neighbourhood continued to cremate or bury their dead on Monday as rescuers retrieved more bodies from under the rubble of flattened homes and other buildings or those overwhelmed by heaps of mud and slush.

After a day’s respite from curfews and strikes, Kashmir was again closed on Monday, the first day of a new week-long calendar of shutdowns and protests issued by separatists.

The people of Leh and its neighbourhood continued to cremate or bury their dead on Monday and simultaneously count more victims as the rescuers were able to retrieve more bodies from under the rubble of flattened homes and other buildings or those overwhelmed by heaps of mud and slush.

Rescuers found more bodies as they dug through trampled homes in Leh, engulfed by mudslides after Thursday night’s cloudburst, raising the toll to 150.

The skull of a secondary school student Tufail Ahmed Mattoo is split open by a randomly fired police teargas canister in downtown Srinagar.

After witnessing mayhem for days, Kashmir Valley was quiet on Sunday with marketplaces open and traffic plying on the roads in most areas as the separatists allowed people to return to work for the da

Doctors at a Leh hospital are weary about the survival of many of the injured.

Kashmir Valley has been relatively calm since Friday morning even as a youth wounded in the security forces’ firing on protesters in the north-western town of Sopore during that day succumbed in a Srinagar hospital on Saturday leading to the rising of tensions in the area.