The indefinite curfew in Srinagar was completely lifted on Thursday night. An announcement to this effect was made by the district magistrate of Srinagar on Thursday night.
Tension prevailed in the area after clashes broke out between Shia-Sunni groups during a Milad-un-Nabi procession on April 1.
Mobile services were partially restored in the Valley which has been rocked by violence since July 8.
Though normalcy is returning to the violence-hit areas, it is still gripped by tension, police sources said.
Curfew was relaxed for six hours in troubled Kokrajhar district on Sunday with no incident reported from anywhere since last night and the situation remaining under control.
Curfew-like restrictions were imposed across Hyderabad on Sunday for the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the terror-hit city.
The decision to lift curfew from the two towns in North Kashmir came after Deputy Commissioner, Baramulla, Bashir Ahmad Bhat held a meeting with local representatives and discussed various measures to restore law and order on Wednesday evening.
The situation in Kamptee town near Nagpur was normal after nearly five days of arson and violence and curfew has been lifted, police said.
Barring Sopore and Pulwama, curfew was relaxed across Kashmir to allow people to offer special prayers on the occasion of a festival.The four-day-old curfew was relaxed in the entire valley on Friday night after a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to enable people to offer special prayers overnight at the Hazratbal shrine for Shab-e-Mehraj, an important occasion on the religious calendar.Some protestors came out in the streets in Qamarwari.
Curfew was imposed on Saturday night in two districts in Manipur as violence escalated on the first day of an indefinite bandh called to protest alleged molestation of a film actress by a Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah militant.
Mobile Internet services continued to remain snapped in the Valley.
Curfew has been relaxed in a phased manner in Gorakhpur in three police station areas for two hours each whereas no relaxation has been given in the Gorakhnath police station area where curfew has been imposed for the last five days.
Curfew was on Friday clamped in Bandipora and Kupwara districts and Sopore town in Kashmir in view of a call given by separatists to hold demonstrations to protest the killing of several youth during clashes with security forces in the last one month. The decision to impose curfew in Bandipora and Kupwara districts and Sopore town was taken in view of the decision by the hard-line faction of the Hurriyat Conference to hold demonstrations in all district headquarters.
Kashmir continued to be under a state of curfew and security forces continued to be on a state of high alert for the second consecutive day across the Valley.
A mob tried to attack Chief Minister N Biren Singh's empty ancestral house on Thursday night, despite a security clampdown and curfew in the Imphal valley.
Curfew in many parts and separatist-sponsored strike disrupted normal life for the 30th straight day on Sunday in Kashmir Valley where violence has so far left 54 persons dead and more than 6000 others injured.
The curfew in Hyderabad was relaxed for the first time on Thursday morning, in parts of the old city which witnessed communal clashes that left two persons dead since Saturday. The restrictions were eased to allow people to buy essential commodities under the limits of Charminar, Hussainialam, Kamatipura, Kalapathar, Bahadurpura, Madannapet, Santoshnagar, Kanchanbagh and Bhavaninagar police stations.
Barring parts of Srinagar city, Anantnag and Pampore towns, curfew was on Saturday lifted from Kashmir even as normal life remained disrupted due to the strike called by separatists.
Violence broke out on Wednesday last after Bajrang Dal activists intercepted a vehicle carrying cattle to a slaughterhouse.\n
Curfew remained in force in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar on Tuesday with the army patrolling troubled places as the death toll in the clashes in the district and adjoining towns rose to 38.
Sensing trouble ahead of a proposed march by separatists, authorities on Friday brought the entire Srinagar district under curfew.With overnight protests in the city and an abortive attempt by activists of a woman separatist outfit to take out a march to Pather Masjid in defiance of curfew on Thursday, District Magistrate of Srinagar Mehraj Ahmad Kakroo announced the imposition of curfew in the entire Srinagar district on Friday morning.
An official said restrictions on assembly of four or more people also continued to remain force in rest of the Valley as a precautionary measure to maintain law and order.
With the situation improving in violence-hit Saharanpur, the district authorities on Monday relaxed curfew for four hours in the new city area to allow people to buy their daily need items from markets which were directed to remain open.
There were no curbs on the movement of people anywhere else in Kashmir.
Fifteen passengers of Agra-Gwalior train were injured as crowd pelted stones, they said, adding two youths and a 12-year-old boy sustained gunshot wounds and nine others sustained injuries, six critically, during stone-pelting.
A constable had assaulted the couple over some issue, following which a mob of locals gathered around the Ramganj police station and indulged in arson, setting ablaze five vehicles, including an ambulance and a police jeep, and damaged 21 others.
The separatist camp have called for an 'Aazadi march' to district headquarters on Saturday as part of their protest schedule.
Lifting the suspension of internet services in violence affected Haldwani, Nainital police on Sunday warned of stringent action against miscreants who try to disrupt communal harmony by posting any provocative photo, comment, etc., on social media.
Indefinite curfew was clamped in three police station areas of this industrial town on Friday after a protest by migrant labourers against the failure of the police to register cases of robbery turned violent.
The Hyderabad city police has decided to lift the day curfew in the jurisdiction of 25 police stations from Saturday.
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Curfew remained imposed for the second day today in Srinagar district in Jammu and Kashmir with no untoward incident being reported so far from anywhere in the Valley.Curfew was imposed on Monday in Kashmir after a protest march towards Pakistan occupied Kashmir capital Muzaffarabad -- organised by fruit growers and separatists against the 'economic blockade'-- turned violent.Prominent Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz and three others were killed and hundreds injured.
Curfew was re-imposed in Srinagar on Monday as another youth injured in last weeks firing succumbed in the hospital on Sunday night. A senior police officer said 20-year old Fida Nabi Lone, who had been critically wounded on August 3 in the Shelteng area of Srinagar died in the Soura Medical Institute on Sunday night despite best efforts of the doctors who had put him on the life-support system after a surgery.
Fresh clashes broke out between protesters and security forces in Kashmir, even as Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is set to visit the Valley on Saturday.
Jammu and Kashmir authorities have placed Srinagar and other towns under an undeclared curfew to thwart separatists' protests after Friday prayers.The separatist coordination committee, comprising representatives of both groups of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, the Bar Association and local traders, had called for protests in Kashmir today.Shops and businesses remained closed and vehicles stayed off the roads in Srinagar today.
An all-party delegation on Tuesday visited Kishtwar, which witnessed communal strife recently, and took stock of the situation as curfew remained in force in the trouble-torn district of the Jammu region for the 12th straight day.
The situation in curfew-bound Dhule remained tense but under control on Tuesday with the police issuing shoot at sight orders after communal riots left four persons dead.
Body of Reyaz Ahmad, with a big perforation in the abdomen, was found outside Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital.
Curfew on Monday remain clamped in nine districts of Kashmir while it was relaxed in Bandipora and Handwara town of Kupwara. The curfew, which had been relaxed in a phased manner over the past few days across the Valley, was reimposed on Sunday following sporadic incidents of violence over varied issues, including the Amarnath accord, official sources said.
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