The steep hike in airfares is making Kashmir out of bounds for most travellers, leading many business-owners to fear that the tourists may be forced to look for another holiday destination, says Mukhtar Shah.
Stone-pelters clashed with security personnel in Anantnag and in the Safakadal area in Srinagr in the wake of the rumours, he said.
Security personnel deployed at Jehangir Chowk were the apparent target of the grenade attack.
Weapons and other incriminating material were recovered from the spot.
The youngest victim of pellet in Kashmir has been discharged from a Srinagar hospital after surgery on her right eye but doctors are not sure if her eyesight will be restored completely.
Congregational prayers were held on Wednesday at the historic Jamia Masjid in Srinagar for the first time since the Centre abrogated certain provisions of Article 370 and Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union territories.
Corms of Saffron, the world's costliest spice are these days in full bloom in the highlands of Pampore, a town 14 kilometres south of capital Srinagar. Mukhtar Ahmed reports.
The search operation was on in the area, the official said.
Trouble started on Thursday night in Central Jail as the inmates resisted the prison authorities' move to shift them from two barracks so that these could be renovated.
A hunt is underway to nab the terrorists who carried out the attack.
The fourth phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir ended peacefully on Sunday recording a turnout of 49 per cent, the lowest compared to the earlier three phases.
The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday said it would consider a plea for early listing of petitions challenging the Centre's decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
A blog linked to TRF, an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, published the list of 56 Kashmiri Pandit employees who were recruited under the Prime Minister's Rehabilitation Package, and warned of mounting attacks on them.
Those familiar with intricate Kashmir politics do not rule out further delay in the assembly elections. Primarily, because the BJP having 'invested' so much for so long in Kashmir would try its best to wait a little longer if only to secure the 'gains' it believes to have achieved after its deafening action on August 5, 2019, points out Mohammad Sayeed Malik, the veteran commentator on Kashmir affairs.
Taking a 30-minute break from the Kanyakumari to Kashmir foot march at Sonawar, Gandhi drove to the Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters on Maulana Azad Road before heading to the clock tower, locally known as 'Ghanta Ghar', to unfurl the tricolour.
Jammu and Kashmir Principal Secretary Rohit Kansal said that on the law and order front, out of 111 police stations in Kashmir, only 105 function or are territorial. Daytime restrictions have been fully lifted from 92 police stations, up from 81 last week.
The police officials stated that Mir, who retired as a senior superintendent of police in 2012, was shot inside the mosque located in the Gantmulla locality of Sheeri area.
Kaiser Bhat, 21, a resident of the Fatehkadal area of Srinagar, was injured when the security forces vehicle allegedly hit him and another youth during the protests in the Nowhatta area of the city on Friday.
She said on one hand, giant hoardings calling upon Kashmiris to "celebrate" the abrogation of Article 370 have been put up across Srinagar, whereas "brute force is being used to choke the actual sentiment of the people".
National Conference president Farooq Abdullah attended Kashmiri Pandit businessman Makhan Lal Bindroo's funeral on Wednesday.
Went to buy ice-cream. Businessman-turned militant returns home dead.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Sayed was at her volatile best during a joint press conference in Srinagar with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Manzoor Ahmad Bangroo was shot at by the ultras at Goshbug in Pattan area officials said, adding he was rushed to a hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
'There is a huge wait in Kashmir for compassion from the prime minister of India.'
Two Central Reserve Police Force personnel were also among the injured.
The terrorists opened firing on a naka party of security forces in Sopore, resulting in injuries to three CRPF jawans and a civilian, the officials said.
'A threatened people should not be forcibly held in a place where their lives may be at risk.'
'There is a trust deficit between Delhi and Srinagar. It is there even today.'
Nine people including three women were killed and 33 injured as a bus carrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh and Delhi plunged into a deep gorge after an ambush by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi district on Sunday evening, police said, as political leaders cutting across party lines strongly condemn the dastardly attack.
Many chief executives said they were talking to people at the top level in their organisations to find how their companies can help the flood victims.
More than 200 persons were injured in clashes between protestors and security forces in the Valley on Sunday.
National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah Friday challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party to contest Lok Sabha polls in the Kashmir Valley, saying he will quit politics if the national party's candidates do not lose their security deposits.
The gun battle had ensued when alert army jawans had foiled an infiltration bid by the terrorists.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled the former state of Jammu and Kashmir did not have any 'internal sovereignty' that was distinguishable from the powers and privileges enjoyed by other states in the country.
Unidentified gunmen barged into the bank branch at Yaripora and looted Rs 65,000 in cash at gunpoint.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has created such an atmosphere in Kashmir that any Indian can hoist the national flag with pride at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, the Bharatiya Janata Party said on Sunday and asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to thank him for the change in the Valley.
This is second attack on security forces in Srinagar -- the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir -- within 24 hours.
A jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force was killed and another critically injured in a militant attack at Nowgam on the outskirts of Srinagar on Wednesday afternoon.
A few days ago, a girl was seriously injured in a stone-pelting incident in downtown city of Srinagar.
Five security force personnel were among six people injured in a grenade attack by militants in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on Wednesday. Militants hurled a grenade at a party of security force personnel at around 5.30 pm in Pohu area wounding six, the police said.
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