Taking advantage of bad weather marked by incessant rainfall and poor visibility, a group of armed terrorists attempted to infiltrate across the LoC, he said.
The cops fired tear smoke shells to chase away the protestors but clashes were still on.
After a lull of several months, Srinagar was rocked by a massive explosion in which at least 17 persons were injured, one of them critically. The police said militants carried out the powerful explosion on the city's only flyover in Jahangir Chowk, adjacent to city centre Lal Chowk on Wednesday evening.
Braving sub-zero temperatures, hundreds of locals and tourists thronged the iconic Ghanta Ghar at Lal Chowk on New Year's eve in Srinagar.
Jaish-e-Mohammad, the Pakistan-based terror outfit, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Bharatiya Janata Party said that there should not be any politics on the Supreme Court ruling and everyone should respect it.
The Central Reserve Police Force recovered an Improvised Explosive Device, weighing around four to five kilogram, on the HMT-Narbal Route near Beacon Huts in Lawapora Area in the outskirts of Srinagar on Saturday morning.
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.
One policeman was killed and six civilians were injured when a group of heavily armed fidayeen (suicide bombers) attacked a paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force camp located in Lal Chowk, at the heart of Srinagar, on Wednesday afternoon.A senior police official said the militants hurled grenades and opened indiscriminate fire at the paramilitary CRPF troops on Wednesday afternoon and tried to force their entry inside the camp. However, the CRPF guards retaliated.
Militants struck in the heart of summer capital Srinagar on Friday morning killing an assistant sub-inspector of the state police.
The extent of the damage and the cause of the fire at A-Z Shopping Centre in Lal Chowk are not known yet.
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti warned that there could be a backlash if the force loses patience.
Kashmiri Pandits in Srinagar continued their protests on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in the wake of the killing of government employee Rahul Bhat, who was shot dead by terrorists inside his office in central Kashmir's Budgam district on May 12.
Authorities imposed restriction in parts of Jammu and Kashmir summer capital Srinagar and disallowed the main Muharram procession from city centre Lal Chowk on Tuesday.
The powerful gale uprooted trees and electric poles and swept away many roofs in Srinagar and other major towns of the valley.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik and two other leaders of the separatist outfit were detained on Friday as they tried to take out a protest rally from Maisuma locality in Srinagar triggering brief clashes with police.
At least 30 people were injured on Saturday when Shia devotees clashed with the police in Srinagar, after they were prevented from taking out a Muharram procession, in violation of prohibitory orders in force in the city. Police fired warning shots in air, lobbed tear gas shells and used batons to disperse stone-pelting processionists at Lal Chowk and adjoining Abi Guzar, official sources said.
The 68-year-old Bindroo, who ran Bindroo Medicate, was shot at by the assailants point blank at his pharmacy, a police official said, adding he was rushed to a hospital where he was declared brought dead.
In the first suicide attack in Kashmir in three years, terrorists stormed a Central Reserve Paramilitary Force camp in Bemina area of the city, killing five jawans and injuring seven others. The two militants, who carried out the attack, were also killed.
In the last three years, the Union Territory administration has invoked 311 (2)(c) of the Constitution to sack more than 50 employees, who were allegedly operating in shadows within the government and drawing a salary from the public exchequer, however, they were helping Pakistani terror outfits, providing logistics to terrorists, propagating terrorists' ideology, raising terror finances and furthering secessionist agenda, officials said.
All educational institutes across the state are closed for the second consecutive day, the officials said.
No militant outfit has owned responsibility for the act so far.
The 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway continued to remain closed for traffic for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday due to landslides triggered by heavy rains, leaving over 700 Kashmir-bound trucks and light passenger vehicles stranded.
Violence erupted in parts of summer capital Srinagar following the death of a class 12 student in Friday's violent clashes between protestors and security forces in old city.
At least 14 persons including two paramilitary Central Reserve Police Forces troopers and two local cops were wounded in a powerful handgrenade explosion in the Batmallo locality of the summer capital this afternoon.
Terrorists on Wednesday struck at the heart of Srinagar killing a policeman and injuring seven others after taking hostage number of people in a run-down hotel breaking almost two years of lull of militant violence in the city.
Hundreds of Kashmir-bound stranded vehicles were given green signal on Tuesday afternoon after the roads were cleared for vehicular traffic.
Before the issuance of the proclamation orders, the court had issued open-ended non-bailable warrants against all five, he added.
The attack took place at 1:20 pm in Hari Singh High Street market area.
Militants shot at and killed two on-duty policemen in the busy Qamarwari locality of the summer capital of Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir on Sunday afternoon.
One militant was killed and two others were injured while fabricating an improvised explosive device, even as authorities imposed security restrictions in north Kashmir district and in capital Srinagar to foil separatist call for a march on Friday.
Barring a stone pelting incident at Soibagh area in Budgam district, the situation was peaceful in the areas where the polling was held, the officials said.
All roads leading to the stadium have been sealed and security personnel have been deployed on rooftops near the stadium, a senior police officer said.
