It was suspected that the scholar from Tikipora in Lolab area might have joined the Hizbul Mujahideen.
The group was banned for five years under anti-terror law on grounds that it was "in close touch" with militant outfits and is expected to "escalate secessionist movement" in the state.
The outgoing Obama Administration has hit out at China for blocking India's entry into the elite NSG by describing the communist giant an "outlier".
A 22-year-old youth Wasim Ahmad Lone died when security forces opened fire to disperse a stone-pelting mob in Nadihal area in Baramulla district.
Geelani's son-in-law Altaf Ahmed Shah and other six accused Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Shahid-ul-Islam, Mehrajuddin Kalwal, Nayeem Khan and Farooq Ahmed Dar were arrested on July 24 in the case of alleged funding of terror and subversive activities in the Kashmir Valley.
Behal is also a member of the legal cell of the separatist amalgam led by Geelani and a 'close associate' of the Hurriyat hawk.
Shops, business establishments and petrol pumps continued to remain shut during the day even on the eve of Eid on Monday.
India rejected Pak's proposal to hold FS-level talks on Kashmir.
Curfew remained in force in entire Srinagar district and Anantnag town while restrictions were in place in the rest of the Valley as normal life remained paralysed for the 39th consecutive day.
Curfew remained in force in the five districts of Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama, Shopian and Baramulla.
The NIA says the Jammu and Kashmir Affectees Relief Fund Trust has in the last10 years collected huge sums of money which has been diverted to Pakistan based militant groups. Vicky Nanjappa reports
In a strong attack on Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his statements on Kashmir, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday told him that his dream of the state becoming a part of his country "will not be realised even at the end of eternity".
A mob attacked a police post at Hatmulla in north Kashmir's Kupwara district this afternoon following which the security personnel retaliated.
Mobs defied curfew to indulge in stone-pelting leaving 15 people, including eight security personnel, injured in the incidents.
The NIA is also probing all angles of the funding of separatist leaders.
Wani, who was arrested by Delhi Police in 2001 allegedly with explosives and incriminating materials, is a resident of Peeparkari area of Srinagar
Why did RA&W hire a man with a questionable record, wonders David Devadas.
The deputy superintendent of police's arrest has raised questions about the role of collaborators in terror attacks.
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.
The resolution, drafted by France and Tunisia, 'demands a general and immediate cessation of hostilities in all situations on its agenda and supports the efforts undertaken by the Secretary-General and his Special Representatives and Special Envoys'.
When attempts to draw out the youth proved futile it was decided to request his parents, whose home was five kilometre away, to come and persuade him to surrender, an official said.
"There is no curfew anywhere in Kashmir today but curfew-like restrictions have been imposed in Batamaloo police station area of Srinagar as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order," a police official said.
'An unconventional war cannot be fought by conventional means,' says Lieutenant General D B Shekatkar (retd).
This is probably for the first time that curfew is in place on the day of Eid festival ever since militancy broke out in the state in 1990.
The delegation was told that the autonomy resolution passed by the Jammu and Kashmir assembly in 2000 should be implemented.
Faktoo, who is in jail since 1993, is the husband of Asiya Andrabi, also a separatist leader and chairperson of Islamist organisation Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
Curfew from the south Kashmir town was briefly lifted on Saturday morning after remaining in force for 49 days.
Those who believe in Kashmiriyat, insaniyat and jamhooriyat are welcome to talk, he said.
"There is a need to apply balm to the wounds of Kashmiri people," she said.
Saeed said Pakistan government has added insult to the wounds of Kashmiris by welcoming Singh.
Sing is expected to bluntly ask Pakistan to stop sponsoring acts of terror in India.
The Indian Army's Northern Command would be stretched if all three of the corps under it -- based in Leh, Srinagar, and Nagrota (near Jammu) -- were to face hostilities, notes David Devadas.
The clashes in the Valley erupted after the killing of young Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with security forces on July 8.
Ten days after Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani was eliminated by the armed forces, Kashmir continues to see massive unrest, with the violence claiming over 40 lives.
The case relates to alleged terror funding in 2017 in the valley and involves Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind based in Pakistan.
Women will have a decisive say as chairpersons in seven of Jammu and Kashmir's 20 districts.
In a joint statement released after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump, the two nations also called on Islamabad to "expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai, Pathankot, and other cross-border terrorist attacks perpetrated by Pakistan-based groups."
The formal notification of handing over the case to the NIA is expected to be issued by the ministry soon, an official privy to the development said.
Two of the terrorists belonged to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
The heightened militancy this year in Pulwama is receiving ground support with the local people posing maximum resistance to the forces.
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