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Kashmir

Rain brings down Temperature, Tempers across Valley

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Heavy showers lashed the Kashmir valley on Wednesday, inundating roads and bringing calm to streets of the region a day after protesters defied separatist appeal for relaxation and held widespread demonstrations. The rainfall began early morning and continued throughout the day causing a considerable drop in the temperature and cloaking the region in cold wintry weather. Many roads in Srinagar, the state’s summer capital, were inundated by rainwater as police and paramilitary personnel imposing curfew and restrictions took shelter of covered pavements. The state government imposed curfew in many parts…

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Agencies at work to sabotage Kashmir movement: Geelani

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Reiterating his appeal to the people to strictly follow the joint program of the pro-freedom leadership, the Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani on Wednesday said, “The dozens of secret agencies are employed here to sabotage our movement by different means.” “These agencies will spend millions of dollars to buy the people’s sentiments but we have to defeat their plans and carry on the mission of our martyrs,” Geelani said while he left his residence today to participate in Kulgam Chalo programme. “But he (Geelani) was immediately arrested by…

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Curfew to continue in South, Restrictions in old City, Mobile communication partially restored

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Curfew continued in south Kashmir districts on Wednesday while only restrictions were imposed in parts of Srinagar city and elsewhere after it was lifted on Tuesday in the tense Valley. “There will be no curfew in the Kashmir Valley today (Wednesday) except in Anantnag, Shopian, Kulgam and Pulwama,” a senior police official said here. “Restrictions will, however, remain imposed at places where breach of peace is apprehended,” the official said. Restrictions would remain in force in Rajouri Kadal and adjacent areas in old Srinagar city where a 61-year-old man died…

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12 hurt as cops rain pellets, teargas shells during clashes in downtown

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Handicapped Firdous hit by pellets all over body, Iqbal receives 20 stitches in head after hit by teargas shell Despite hue and cry over use of pellet guns in the Valley, the police and CRPF men rained pellets and teargas shells during clashes in downtown causing injuries to at least 10 youth. One of the injured, a handicapped was hit by pellets all over body while a youth received 20 stitches in head after being hit by a tear gas shell. After remaining comparatively peaceful, the downtown Srinagar witnessed massive…

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‘No one among us is the PDP or NC now’

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Having failed to quell the mass protests following the killing of Kashmiri militant Burhan Wani, even police, paramilitary and Army have been withdrawn, to lessen the chances of a confrontation. It is the silence after a storm. The markets are shut and villagers are sitting in the shopfronts, huddled in groups. Young boys stand guard at roadblocks, made of stones, bricks and chopped trees. There is no phone connection, cable TV, local newspaper or the Internet. At some places, power has been cut off. Having failed to quell the mass…

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Another season of unrest brings darkness for ordinary Kashmiris

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As Kashmir deals with the worst outbreak of unrest in six years, hospital wards are filled with partially or fully blinded victims of pellet injuries, some under 10 years old Umar, just 12 years old, sits up in his bed at Sri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital in Srinagar, the main city in the Indian half of disputed Kashmir, straightens his back and slowly turns his head from left to right, as if surveying the other patients. Like Umar, most are wearing dark glasses. Some have their eyes covered with…

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Day 18: Srinagar’s old city a no-go zone

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At Baba Dawood Khaki bridge, one of the many connectors between Srinagar’s old city and Civil Lines areas, smoke from burning tyres curled into the air on Tuesday afternoon —- Day 18 of the ongoing unrest. Tuesday was a litmus test to know the mood of residents of dozens of volatile neighbourhoods of the old city, aka the Downtown, as the state government lifted curfew for the first time here in the last 18 days since the unrest began. The separatists had also called for a rare relaxation in the…

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Clashes erupt in Srinagar’s old City

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Massive protests erupted in old Srinagar areas on Tuesday soon after the curfew was lifted after 17 days. Local sources said that police and para-military personnel used tear smoke shells to disperse the protesters who were raising anti-India slogans. They said that as soon as curfew was lifted in the old city areas people came on roads and alleged that men in uniform have smashed hundreds of residential houses and parked vehicles during last 16 days of curfew. They said dozens of youth have also been arrested. As the people…

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Youth from different parts of India to Unfurling national flag at Lal Chowk on I Day

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Jammu and Kashmir may witness another face-off this Independence Day as 20 youths from various parts of the country have challenged the administration and separatist groups to stop them from hoisting the Tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on August 15. Hurt at the anti-national activities and slogans in Kashmir for over 15 days, the group, including three Muslims, challenged separatist leaders in Kashmir to stop them from unfurling the Tricolour at Lal Chowk on Independence Day. The youths are not affiliated to any political or social group. The group…

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Curfew, restrictions continue in Valley, Mobile, Internet services restored in Jammu

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Authorities continued curfew and restrictions on Tuesday in the Kashmir Valley. “Curfew shall continue without any relaxation in Anantnag, Shopian, Kulgam and Pulwama districts while restrictions will remain in force in parts of Srinagar, Sopore and Kupwara,” a senior police official told IANS. An unruly mob on Monday torched an irrigation department office in Anantnag town. Clashes continued in south Kashmir areas as people tried to march to Anantnag town in response to the separatist called protest march on Monday. Clashes also occurred in old city areas of Srinagar after…

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