Union Home Minister P Chidambaram arrived in Srinagar on Monday afternoon on a two-day visit to Kashmir Valley to review the overall security situation in the state and arrangements made for the annual Amarnath yatra.
"There is a need to apply balm to the wounds of Kashmiri people," she said.
'No one, Mr Kohli, holds any kind of a franchise on nationalism and patriotism.' 'And there is no 'our' that owns India,' says Suhit Sen.
For a Valley on the boil, there is ample proof that New Delhi simply does not care.
There has been a steady rise in the number of youth taking up arms in the Valley since 2014 onwards as compared to 2011, 2012, and 2013.
The Superintendent of Police of Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore district, Altaf Khan, was on Tuesday shifted in the wake of the death of a youth allegedly in police custody in the north Kashmir town on Sunday.
The administration of the union territory as directed by the Jammu and Kashmir high court to make public land given under the controversial Roshni land scheme, since scrapped by a court, came out with the list of beneficiaries.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday reviewed the security situation in the country, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, National Security Advisor NSA Ajit Doval and other top officials.
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.
India's position on addressing all issues including Kashmir with Pak in a bilateral framework not changed, the MEA said.
The stage is set for the first of the five-phased assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir as 12 sitting MLAs, including seven ministers, are among 123 candidates trying their luck in 15 constituencies that will go to polls on Tuesday in all three regions of the state.
Mobile Internet, of course, helped Burhan Wani to spread his message. And some rumour-mongers at the inception of the current unrest spread falsehoods at least on two occasions, but why ban all mobile communication including cellular network and cable TV when deep-seated alienation among youth has shaped their ideology which is now playing out in the form of massive protests, asks Athar Parvaiz.
The Union Home ministry has ruled out the possibility of handing over the mortal remains of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru to his family
Curfew was lifted in most parts of Kashmir from Monday and it was completely withdrawn two days ago.
Militants killed a civilian in the Kakpora town of south Kashmir Pulwama district late on Sunday night, according to the police.
Khan's remarks came a day after Modi in a rally in Rajasthan said, "There is consensus in the entire world against terrorism. We are moving ahead with strength to punish the perpetrators of terrorism..."
Normal life remained disrupted for the 24th consecutive day due to the strike call given by separatists against civilian deaths during the protests.
Doval, who has been sent home 24 hours early is regularly taking stock of the developments in the valley with officials.
Chief Minister Ashok Chavan had signed the suspension order of five police officials -- Salve, Assistant Commisioner of Police Prakash Wani, Senior Inspector Tulsidas Khakar, Inspector Khalatkar and Constable Talu Salunke, an official in the Chief Minister's office said.
Over 700 houses were searched in a span of 12 hours on October 17 in an extensive search operation in old town in Baramulla
Three persons, including two women, were killed in two separate strikes by militants in south Kashmir on Sunday night. A senior police officer said four militants barged into the house of Mohammad Hussain Gorsi in the Nanmarg forest area of Damhal Hanjipora in south Kashmir's Kulgam district and fired indiscriminately, killing his 40-year old wife and 19-year daughter on the spot. Gorsi managed to escape unhurt.
The state police on Friday arrested one of the two activists of the hardline Hurriyat Conference who were allegedly involved in a conspiracy to engineer violence in Kashmir valley by planning the killing of 10 to 15 people during a procession. The police swooped down at a place on Narbal-Magam Road and arrested Shabir Ahmed Wani, district president of the Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
A Delhi court on Wednesday sentenced a Bangladeshi national and his Kashmiri associate belonging to the banned militant organisation Harkat-Ul-Jihad-al-Islami to life imprisonment for possessing explosives and waging war against the country.
"Curfew has been imposed in five police station areas of downtown (interior city) and Batamaloo and Maisuma areas in the uptown," a police official said, adding restrictions on assembly of people would remain in force in the rest of the Valley.
Heavy deployment of police and Central Reserve Police Force manning roads, lanes and traffic intersections disallowed all pedestrian and vehicular movement in old city areas of Srinagar, which in the last 5 days witnessed fierce clashes between security forces and protestors.
The separatist groups had called for a march to Lal Chowk to protest civilian deaths during the unrest.
On sustained questioning, the SSP said, the trio admitted they are working for Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist outfit and were luring young boys into militancy.
During his visit, Rajnath will review the situation and may hold talks with cross section of people.
The students were happy to reunite with their classmates after so long and wished that there are no further disruptions to their studies.
Mumbaikars from different parts of the city are providing people with ready-to-grow seed balls to help tackle depleting forest cover, reports Swapnil Joglekar.
Why did RA&W hire a man with a questionable record, wonders David Devadas.
Meanwhile, home minister Rajanth Singh said 90 per cent people in J&K keen to participate in panchayat polls.
It's official. Kalavati Bandurkar, the most visible face of the farm crisis in drought-hit Vidarbha, on Tuesday withdrew from Maharashtra assembly polls after a series of flip flops.
In the midst of flip-flops by Kalavati Bandurkar on contesting the Maharashtra assembly polls, the non-governmental organsiation supporting her candidature on Saturday replaced her with another candidate. "Since Kalavati is not well and under tremendous pressure from many quarters to withdraw her nomination from Wani, the Samiti has decided to replace her with Babytai," said Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti president Kishore Tiwari.
Kalawati Bandurkar was scheduled to contest the October 13 polls from Wani Assembly Constituency in Yavatmal district as Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti candidate, but in a recent interview to a leading Marathi newspaper she had said that she was being "pressurised to contest elections and that she was unaware of what election and politics were."
Curfew remained in force in entire Srinagar district and Anantnag town on Saturday to thwart the separatists' plan to stage a two-day sit-in in the city centre even as the death toll in the ongoing unrest climbed to 56 in the Valley with the death of a youth injured in firing.
"We in Pakistan will intensify the movement which is taking place in Kashmir. When Pakistan join hands in this movement with Kashmir then Kashmir will become part of Pakistan," he said.
Pandemonium prevailed in the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly today over various issues leading to a walkout by the Opposition, while a Congress member threatened to quit the coalition.
Addressing the media amid tight security at the Centre Press Club in Muzaffarabad for the first time since the US declared him a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" on June 27, Salahuddin rejected the US decision and said he was a freedom fighter and not a terrorist.
Tahira, 44, sustained injuries during the encounter and was rushed to the district hospital, but she could not be saved.
