It is estimated that around two dozen terrorists are well-entrenched within the city limits, while their movement and visibility in rural areas have become a routine.
After remaining disrupted for 11 days, Railways today partially resumed train services in Kashmir Valley following restoration of tracks damaged by flood waters.
Despite assurances by the Jammu and Kashmir government, over 100 more terror-stricken panches and sarpanches announced their resignations through paid advertisements in the valley.
A Lashker-e-Tayiba operative, who was allegedly managing finances for the Pakistan-based militant outfit in north Kashmir's Baramulla district was arrested Sunday, police said in Srinagar.
A case has been registered against a Central Reserve Police Force unit for allegedly using "excessive force" against persons protesting hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru that left one person dead and four others injured.
Hizbul Mujahideen militant Mushtaq Ahmad Chopan, who was killed in the attack, tried to escape from Tral police station wearing a burqa. In the incident, constable Mehraj Din was also injured, a police spokesman said.
Political parties held protests against the ban on April 7 as well as Wednesday.
Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing Sunday morning at the Indian posts in the Uri sector of the Line of Control in north Kashmir's Baramulla district.
At least 22 persons including 18 security men were injured in widespread clashes in Kashmir despite imposition of curfew in capital Srinagar's old city and three major towns on Wednesday.
Curfew was imposed on Tuesday night in 10 police station areas of KashmirValley as a precautionary measure with the authorities apprehending law and order problem following the killing of a youth in firing allegedly by security forces in Baramulla district.
Two soldiers were also injured in the Uri operation.
24-year-old Rifleman Yash Paul, a resident of Mantalai village in Udhampur lost his life in cross-LoC firing.
Bansal said he would also pursue for the approval of projects identified as being of national importance, including the Bilaspur-Manali-Leh, Jammu-Poonch via Akhnoor, Tanakpur-Bageshwar and Parsuramkund-Rupai.
A sarpanch was gunned down by unidentified militants in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Sunday evening. Today's killing is yet another in a series of relentless attacks against the panches and sarpanches in the valley who have been clamouring for security by the administration.
Six militants were killed on Friday in two encounters with the security forces in Baramulla and Kupwara districts of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesman said.
An army soldier and a 17-year-old girl were killed when Pakistan troops resorted to unprovoked firing on the Line of Control in the Uri sector of north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Saturday evening.
'I am not afraid of BJP. I am not armed with lathi or stone, let them come to me and reply to my questions which they will not'
At least a dozen persons were injured in protestor-security force clashes in the curfew bound Kashmir Valley following the execution of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
"At about 9.15 pm, a police party at Mirgund in Pattan signalled a cab to stop but two militants inside the vehicle started firing, which was retaliated," a police official said.
A robbery case has been filed against a group of unidentified army personnel in Baramulla district of north Kashmir, police sources said on Thursday.
In the wake of the fresh militant attacks on Panchayat members in Jammu and Kashmir, around 20 panches and sarpanches of the Baramulla district on Sunday tendered their resignations here citing "threats to their lives".
Militants shot at and critically wounded a woman sarpanch in Hardshiva village near Sopore town in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Saturday evening. This is the second attack in the past two days on elected village representatives in the Sopore area.
2 other jawans were injured in Pakistani shelling in Naushera sector of Rajouri district.
Militants on Sunday attacked a police party in a busy market area of Sopore town in North Kashmir's Baramulla district, leaving a civilian dead and a policeman critically injured, the fourth attack on security forces in the state this month.
An encounter between holed up militants and security forces broke out on Wednesday in a village of north Kashmir's Baramulla district where five hardcore militants of the Lashker-e-Tayiba were killed. Two Army personnel were injured in the firing.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said he would discuss the issue of providing security to panchayat members at the next meeting of the Unified Headquarters to ensure their safety and smooth functioning.
Suspected militants late Sunday evening shot at and killed a village sarpanch in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, triggering a new wave of panic among sarpanches.
Samir Ahmad Wani alias Jaan Sahib was killed in a gunbattle with security forces at Nagri Hatmulla in Kupwara district, a police official said.
A gunbattle broke out between militants and security forces in Tangmarg area of north Kashmir' Baramulla district on Thursday.
The three-year-old son of a former militant, who was critically wounded in an attack in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Saturday evening, succumbed to injuries in a hospital in Srinagar.
This time however, the poll panel did not share the overall polling percentage at its briefing.
Government is likely to turn down the request of family of Afzal Guru, who was hanged and buried in Tihar jail, for handing over his body
A village sarpanch was gunned down by unidentified militants in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Monday evening. Militants shot from a close range at Ghulam Ahmad Yatoo, sarpanch of Palhallan village located on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, said a senior police official.
India will have the highest railway bridge in the world by 2016, over the river Chenab.
Afzal Guru's family is well within its right to seek his body, but the model prison manual prescribes clauses that need to be taken into account before the request is considered, reports Vicky Nanjappa.
Four terrorists and a soldier were killed in an overnight encounter in the Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district, police said on Thursday.
'If the strength of foreign terrorists can be brought to negligible levels there will be few takers for militancy.' 'That is why it is important to neutralise the terrorists at their launch pads,' advises Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
The Indian army on Tuesday said that Pakistan army has refused a flag meeting after its troops violated the bilateral ceasefire in north Kashmir last month.
People living in areas close to Line of Control in Kashmir are demanding special grant for construction of bunkers to escape shelling as India and Pakistan have resumed hostilities by heavy firing at each others' position.
