SRINAGAR: One person has died and another wounded after the Army fired at a group of protesters in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, witnesses say.
Tahir Ahmed Sofi received bullets in his head and chest, they say.
At least one young boy has also been hit in the legs.
Police say the Army soldiers opened fire after they came under attack from stone throwing protesters in Baramulla town.
However a resident of the area told freepresskashmir.com over phone...
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SRINAGAR: Police have used force to break up protest demonstrations against the death of a research scholar from Kashmir who died in Hyderabad on Saturday.
A joint advisory council of separatists had asked people to march towards Parigam village in Pulwama district to condole with the family of late Mudasir Kamran.
In Srinagar, hundreds of young men marched from the Rajouri Kadal area in downtown city chanting anti-India slogans, witnesses say.
They reached Habba Kadal area, a few kms away from city centre...
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SRINAGAR: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has denied reports of his resigning over the killing of a youth in Baramulla, saying if his stepping down can bring a person back to life he will do so in a flash.
"Note to others spreading rumours about my impending resignation - I haven't resigned. If my resignation could bring a person back to life I'd resign in a flash. My responsibility to the state and people is to ensure incidents like today's see justice done," Omar on micro-blogging site Twitter.
In an earlier tweet, he...
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SRIANAGAR: Normal life was hit for the second consecutive day today due to a march called by a group of separatists to the residence of a Kashmiri student, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Hyderabad.
Shops, banks and petrol filling stations are closed while police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in strength. Private transport, however, is plying normally.
While the situation across the Kashmir Valley is peaceful, police has sealed all roads leading to Parigam village in Pulwama, the...
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SRINAGAR: Conservationists in Kashmir have established a breeding centre to save the Hangul, a rare species of Red Deer found only in the Himalayan region.
Environmentalists say there are less than 218 red deer known commonly as the Hangul left in Kashmir's forests from more than 900 in 1989 because of poaching and neglect by authorities aggravated by a 23-year-old separatist violence.
"Union Ministry of Forests and Environment has approved a long term Hangul Conservation Action Plan (HCAP) to the tune of Rs. 22.06...
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Ashiq Hussain
SRINAGAR: Sameer Ahmad (name changed) was hardly 10 years-old when his uncle, a Hizbul Mujahideen militant, was killed in an encounter with security forces in the outskirts of Srinagar in 1999. The killing also shattered the lively-person Sameer was. He went into depression, left school and more dangerously took to smoking.
Now 23 years Sameer drives an auto and has become a chain smoker.
Medical experts are worried at the rate people are taking to smoking across Kashmir and...
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Majid Jahangir
SRINAGAR: The latest series of protests in various parts of the Valley is likely to affect the train service in Kashmir for more days.
The train services from Qazigund in south to Baramulla in north Kashmir was suspended on Sunday afternoon due to the tension in many parts of south Kashmir over the death of a Ph.D student in Hyderabad.
“Due to the situation, we suspended the train operation since Sunday,” said SSP,...
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SRINAGAR: In 1991, he went missing from his home in Uttar Pradesh. Nine years later his family gave up their search and performed Kedaar Ballabh Tripathi's last rites in absentia.
But all of a sudden they have reunited - at a psychiatric hospital in Kashmir, nearly one thousand miles away from where they belong to.
“It is a new life for me," says Shyam Sunder, Tripathi's brother, who has come to take him home, finally.
“We had lost hope. Thinking that he was no more we had also performed his last rites," he...
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SRINAGAR: Thousands of people Monday attended the funeral of the Kashmiri student who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Hyderabad, even as shops and other businesses were closed in the valley due to a shutdown called by separatists.
The body of Mudasir Kamran was brought to Parigam village in Pulwama district today from Hyderabad where he was found hanging in his hostel room on Saturday.
Before burial at his ancestral graveyard with thousands of people in attendance, the late Mudasir's body was taken...
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SRINAGAR: Senior leader of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) and Member Parliament from Hyderabad, Asaduddin Owaisi Monday assured his party’s full support to Kashmiri students studying in Andhra Pradesh and asked them to contact his party men in case they faced any problem.
“They (Kashmiri students) should approach me directly or my office in case of any problem in any part of AP. There is no reason for Kashmiris to feel insecure in AP. They shouldn’t feel alone as we are with them,” Owaisi told a news...
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