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.

Reiterating there can be no talks with India unless it “unambiguously” declares Kashmir as a dispute and meets others conditions set forth by his faction of the Hurriyat Conference for any discourse, senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Saturday announced a new calendar of week-long protests and strikes as part of its “Quit Jammu and Kashmir” campaign.

One hundred and thirteen people have been killed and over 400 injured in flash floods triggered by sudden overnight heavy rain, officials said on Friday. The toll in the biggest natural catastrophe in Leh’s living history is likely to go up as more than 50 people, including many children, are missing.

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has rejected the Centre’s talks offer saying his name was being dragged into “non-existent” buzz only with the design to create misapprehensions about his person and role.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah faced considerable hostility from patients’ relatives and those attending to them when he visited the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences to monitor the treatment of those injured in the recent violence.

Two more persons were killed and scores injured when security forces while confronting irate crowds opened fire in Srinagar and southern district of Pulwama on Thursday. With these killings, the one week toll has risen to 31 and to 49 since June 11.

At least 44 people have been killed and over 300 injured in flash floods triggered by a massive cloudburst in Leh town of Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region, the police said on Friday.

They lead from the front and it shows. 662 Jammu and Kashmir police personnel are counting their injuries received while battling the fury of stone-throwers who have virtually paralysed the Kashmir Valley for the past seven weeks. They have worked in the most trying circumstances without much appreciation.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday announced ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the relatives of those killed in a cloudburst that hit the Himalayan town of Leh in the frontier region of Ladakh.