Curfew in parts of Srinagar
Parts of Srinagar remained under curfew on Friday to thwart a freedom march called by influential separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
Also, the city, mainly its old part, was gripped by renewed tensions following chief Muslim cleric and leader of his faction of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was assaulted by a group of Kashmiri Pandit expatriates and right-wing Hindu activists owing allegiance to Sangh Pariwar.
Mr Geelani, who has been placed under house arrest here, had asked people to march towards Srinagar’s Idgah prayer grounds with a brick each so that a “wall of resistance” could be raised besides the “martyrs’ cemetery” there.
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135 J&K staff involved in rock hurling
AGE CORRESPONDENT
SRINAGAR
Nov. 26: As many as 135 Jammu and Kashmir government employees have been found involved in rock-hurling incidents during the weeks of unrest in the Valley. Of these, 60 employees have already been arrested, seven of them detained under the state’s stringent Public Safety Act (PSA).
Disclosing this here, inspector-general of Police (Kashmir range) S.M. Sahai said that action under law against the remaining accused will be taken in due course of time.
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Varsity to launch art piece probe
AGE CORRESPONDENT
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Nov. 26: The Cochin University of Science and Technology on Friday ordered a probe into the cutting off of the breasts of the famous grass mermaid reclining at the campus garden.
The registrar of the varsity had reportedly ordered the “breast removal” the other day following complaints from a women’s welfare association that the 20-foot long grass sculpture was vulgar and spoilt the academic ambience.
Artists have raised hell over this surgery performed on the mermaid terming it an act of Talibanism.
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