The Pandits congratulated the hajis for completing the pilgrimage and sought their blessings. They offered roses to the pilgrims.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Delegates of all G20 countries, barring China, arrived in Srinagar on Monday for the third working group meeting on tourism -- a much-anticipated event for which authorities have made extensive security arrangements and spruced up the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
Fresh snowfall disrupted normal life in Jammu and Kashmir, where an avalanche warning was issued in five districts, higher reaches and tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh and the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand on Monday.
The government has decided to name 21 uninhabited islands in the Union territory of Andaman & Nicobar after recipients of Param Vir Chakra, the country's highest wartime gallantry award.
Shah visited the family of Jammu and Kashmir Police officer who was killed by terrorists.
Kashmir is witnessing a fresh spell of wet weather with higher reaches receiving heavy snowfall and plains lashed by a mix of rain and snow.
The charge sheet has been filed in a case registered on November 7 last year, they said.
The snowfall started during the night at most places and early in the morning at few places, the officials said. They said while some areas in north Kashmir received light snowfall, most areas in central and south Kashmir experienced moderate snowfall.
"PM Narendra Modi yesterday in his broadcast to the nation claimed that there is normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir and people are happy with the decision of abolition of article 370 and 35A.
The DGCA advised airlines to remain ready to operate additional flights from the Srinagar airport if the need arises.
The protesters first assembled at the Sheikhpora area of Budgam district, in central Kashmir, and then tried to proceed towards the airport but were stopped by a posse of police personnel, they said.
Kashmir is currently under the grip of 'Chillai-Kalan' -- the 40-day harshest winter period when a cold wave grips the region
Officials said this was another example of Pakistan misusing higher studies as bait for recruitment in terror groups.
Terming the killing a "cowardly act", the protesters said assurances given by the Centre and the Jammu and Kashmir administration to ensure the safety of minorities in the Valley have proved to be false.
According to the order, Singh was awarded Jammu and Kashmir's highest police award in 2018.
Singh, who was decorated with President Police Medal about four months ago, continued to be grilled by a team of police and intelligence investigators.
'Why should I as a common man not know where my parents are in Kashmir, how they are doing. It is my right,' student Mohammed Aleem Syed, who moved the Supreme Court to be allowed to visit Kashmir, tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
This was Parrikar's first visit after the Indian Army conducted surgical strikes on terrorist camps across the Line of Control
Flight operations at Srinagar Airport were on Monday suspended after an Air India plane from Jammu with 149 passengers on board suffered a tyre burst.
Davinder Singh was being treated at par with the terrorists and jointly interrogated by all security agencies. He was ferrying the terrorists in a car. One of the arrested terrorists is Naveed, a former police constable who deserted the force in 2017 to join the Hizbul Mujahideen.
A seven-kilogram improvised explosive device (IED) was detected on Sunday near the crowded general bus stand area in Jammu, averting a major tragedy and a plan by terrorists to set off an explosion on the second anniversary of the 2019 Pulwama attack, officials said.
Rahul said it is clear that things are "not normal" in Jammu and Kashmir.
The disclosure of files provided by India's second army chief General Sir Roy Bucher to Nehru Memorial Museum and Library about Jammu and Kashmir related to the period of 1947-49, which may throw light on Accession, is in 'national interest,' the central information commission has observed in an order.
Jaish-e-Mohammad, the Pakistan-based terror outfit, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
"For those who accuse the opposition of 'politicising' this issue: There is nothing more 'political' and 'anti national' than the shutting down of all democratic rights that is taking place in Kashmir," Priyanka Gandhi said.
The minister also appealed to the people of Kashmir to hoist the national flag in their homes on August 15.
Shortly after arriving from Delhi, the home minister attended a solemn function in Srinagar where the remains of 40 CRPF personnel were kept in coffins, draped with tricolour.
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Yasin Malik was on Sunday detained at Srinagar airport soon after his arrival from Delhi and "escorted to his home".
The sight of one mobike after another from the Bajaj Auto stable as he left Srinagar airport prompted its boss Rajiv Bajaj today to ask Kashmiri students to be just not bike enthusiasts but be also involved in its production.
With hundreds of people left stranded due to inclement weather, the Indian Air Force on Saturday launched fresh operation by ferrying 550 passengers, including 300 civilians between the two capital cities.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against defence ministry officials and others as part of its probe into alleged irregularities in the sale of military land near the high-security Srinagar airport.
The MEPs said they stand by India in its fight against terrorism.
Azad also accused the state and Centre of not being bothered about the people.
The festering dispute over the accession of Jammu and Kashmir stands out as one of the world's most volatile fault lines that divides regions, countries, societies, communities and ethnic groups, notes Mohammad Sayeed Malik, the distinguished commentator on Kashmir affairs, on Sheikh Abdullah's 39th death anniversary.
IndiGo heads towards $400 mln IPO as air travel booms.
Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was detained by the police at the Srinagar airport and put under house arrest soon after his arrival from New Delhi. In the national capital, the chairman of the hard-line faction of the Hurriyat Conference was questioned by the Delhi police in connection with a hawala case. "He was detained at the airport and put under house arrest soon after his arrival from Delhi," said the party spokesperson.
Kashmir is back in the focus, and this time it's thanks to the Bharatiya Janata Party's yatra to Srinagar to hoist the national flag at Lal Chowk on Republic Day
According to sources, among some of the parties that will be part of the opposition all-party delegation are Congress, CPI-M, CPI, RJD, NCP, TMC and DMK and Rahul Gandhi is likely to accompany them.
The order led to panic in Kashmir which has remained tense for the past few days after the Centre ordered deployment of 100 companies of additional troops in the valley.
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