Sporadic incidents of violence in the Valley which erupted with the announcement on Friday evening of a 24-hour break in the curfew forced the administration to re-impose curfew and restrictions in parts of Srinagar and in some other towns on Saturday morning.
Two army soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an ambush in the Mendhar sector of Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu region on Tuesday evening. A defence spokesman in Jammu confirmed two soldiers had been killed and three others wounded when the vehicle they were travelling in came under fire near the LoC.
Terrorists killed a Central Reserve Police Force head constable at the main bus stand at Magam in Kashmir's Budgam district.Police said that the CRPF trooper was shot at from a close range. The bus stand has been surrounded and search operations are on to trace the terrorists.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik was detained by authorities on Thursday, even as life was paralyzed across Kashmir valley because of the shutdown and curfew-like-restrictions in summer capital Srinagar.
While auto sales in the US have plunged, vehicle sale in China has more than doubled since 2005, rising near 13 million units this year.
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The announcement was made by the state Director General of Police Kuldeep Khuda during his visit to the Rajouri district of Jammu region.
The Majlis-e-Mushawarat has called for a shutdown across Kashmir on Tuesday to protest against the report of the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Shopian rape and murder case.The Hurriyat Conference's moderate faction has supported the strike.The CBI's report on the Shopian case had sparked off an agitation in the Kashmir valley, when the families of the two women, who were allegedly raped and murdered, refused to accept the report, which said they had drowned.
A senior separatist Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq Qureshi was shot point blank in head by suspected terrorists at Soura in Srinagar on Friday evening in an apparent attempt to derail the dialogue process in Jammu and Kashmir.
Following recent serious differences that have surfaced in the moderate All Parties Hurriyat Conference over the issue of 'quiet dialogue' with the Centre, an extraordinary meeting of the conglomerate decided, on Monday, to suspend the party's office bearers and keep the various committees in suspended animation.
A huge explosion outside the Indian embassy in Kabul killed at least five people, reports said. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. Though there are no immediate reports of any Indian being injured, TV reports suggest the embassy embassy wall has been severely damaged.
Heavy rains and surging flood water continued to batter Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, claiming 194 lives and inundating vast swathes of land.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday evening formally decided to hand over the Shopian rape and murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.The CBI will probe the mysterious deaths of Neelofar Jan, 22, and her sister-in-law Aasiya Jan, 17, whose bodies were found on May 30. The government's decision comes a day after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made his first public appearance in Shopian and assured the people of the town that the culprits would be punished.
At least 60 persons either committed suicide or died of shock after hearing the news of Chief Minister YSR Reddy's death in a chopper crash.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Shourie on Monday asked the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) to take over the BJP's control and described the party's president Rajnath Singh as "Humpty Dumpty".
Banga's exit is being seen as a blow to Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, who said in a speech this week that the bank would look abroad for growth as the US economy slows. At MasterCard, he will be responsible for key business operations, including customer relationships globally, products, services, marketing, technology and operations.
Bharat Borge, the mechanic whose timely discovery that there were pebbles and mud in the gear box of Anil Ambani's helicopter, was found dead beside railway tracks in suburban Andheri in Mumbai under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday spoke to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, who is on an indefinite fast in support of his demand for immediate ceasefire in the Sri Lankan army's offensive against the LTTE.
The Satyam Computer Services board is expected to induct former managing director of Tata Chemicals Homi R Khusrokhan on the company's board of directors as Executive Director and former chief financial officer of Murugappa group Partho S Datta as Director (Finance).
Taking a hard knock in the recession-hit US and other major markets, India's exports nose-dived by 22 per cent in January, dashing all hopes of a recovery riding on the December figures.
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