The Kashmir region observed a shutdown for the second consecutive day today to protest the killing of a youth during protests on the city outskirts last night. The youth’s killing overshadowed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of an economic package. The shutdown affected the public transport services and markets also remained closed in the region for the second day. The authorities had imposed restrictions in several neighbourhoods of the old city and in Srinagar’s western outskirts, where the youth had died on Saturday evening, to prevent further demonstrations. The police,…
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