The weekly flea market opened in Srinagar on Sunday as several vendors put up their stalls on the TRC Chowk-Polo View axis, the officials said.
India agreed to give up the Poonch salient as well as Uri. To the north India also proposed to give up land in the Gurez sector giving the entire Neelam/Kinshanganga valley to Pakistan. In return India sought control of the post dominating Kargil town, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Curfew was on Friday extended to several areas of Kashmir to foil a planned march by separatists to Eidgah in old city area as normal life continued to remain paralysed for the 49th consecutive day in the Valley in the wake of violence following the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani last month.
Cold wave conditions remained unabated as the night temperature across Kashmir continued to stay below the freezing point with forecasts for dry spell.
It seems that the West is sending a signal to India that it can return to old hostilities unless India toes their line on Russia. It is no surprise that India is being compared with Putin's Russia in terms of targeting 'dissidents' as the West calls these Khalistani terrorists, asserts Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
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.
Mobile Internet services continued to remain snapped in the Valley.
Security forces on Saturday busted a Lashker-e-Tayiba module in Sopore in north Kashmir with the arrest of four militants.
The Union government had last week directed social media platforms such as Twitter and YouTube to block links to the documentary India: The Modi Question.
In the current year, army foiled 23 infiltration attempts killing 39 armed intruders along the LoC.
The IMD had said the Southwest Monsoon would hit parts of north India including Delhi on July 10, but it had not occurred till Sunday evening.
An army jawan was also injured in the encounter that began on Saturday night after troops launched a search operation in Khumhair forests of Handwara tehsil.
One army trooper was killed in a fierce encounter in a forest area in north Kashmir Kupwara district on Monday.
A top militant commander of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit was killed in a fierce encounter in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Wednesday.
Qasim, a Lashkar leader and terrorist, had planned the attack on a Border Security Force convoy in Udhampur on August 5.
Kashmir is currently under the grip of 'Chillai-Kalan' -- the 40-day harshest winter period when a cold wave grips the region
She also sought confidence building measures to be undertaken on the lines of those initiated in 2002.
The intense cold wave conditions accompanied by snowfall have left 24 people dead in Uttarakhand.
The broadband services were restored on Saturday after working journalists protested against the communication 'gag'.
In Rajasthan, 13 deaths related to rain and storm were reported over the last two days while at least 12 people were killed due to lightning strikes in Jharkhand during the same period, officials said.
Defending the panel's recommendation to retain the law, which is at present under abeyance following directions of the Supreme Court issued in May last year, he said enough safeguards have been proposed to prevent its misuse.
Delhi recorded a cold wave for the second consecutive day on Friday, with the minimum temperature at Ayanagar in southwest Delhi plunging to a numbing 1.8 degrees Celsius.
After frequent incursions in Ladakh area, Chinese People's Liberation Army troops have been spotted at forward posts along the Line of Control on the Pakistani side of Kashmir, ringing alarm bells in the security grid.
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Cold wave tightened its grip further in Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region as minimum temperatures in most places dipped several degrees below the freezing point.
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.
A BSF jawan was killed on Thursday when Pakistani troops opened sniper fire at Indian forward post along the Line of Control in Baramulla of North Kashmir.
Protests rocked parts of Kashmir Valley including Srinagar on Saturday where Pakistan and Islamic State flags were yet again displayed by masked youths after Eid prayers.
Scores of people die every year due to cold waves that sweep across the north Indian plains.
'The government is plucking leaves and not destroying the plant.'
'People's expectations were very high.' 'We felt both sides had understood each other.' 'But the removal of Article 370 triggered apprehensions within the Naga people.'
Terrorists fired upon a joint party of the Central Reserve Police Force and police near Main Chowk Sopore in north Kashmir district around noon, they said.
The Lok Sabha witnessed a display of linguistic diversity on Monday, with the newly-elected MPs taking their oaths in English and Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Dogri, Bengali, Assamese and Odia.
'It is a matter of concern. The number of forces on a 'naka' point is less and is normally in a remote area where they (terrorists) conceal themselves by coming along with civilians and then fire on the forces. We have faced losses and they have managed to flee a few times, but, we will soon find a response to this tactic and end this problem'
The terrorists fired at a check post that was jointly being manned by troops of CRPF's 179th battalion and the Jammu and Kashmir Police, they said. This is the third attack against the paramilitary force in the Kashmir valley within a week.
While two terrorists were killed in Kupwara as many were eliminated in Kulgam, they said, adding some more terrorists are hiding and operation was still underway in both the areas.
North India was in the grip of intense cold with 40 days of harshest winter period 'Chillai-Kalan' beginning in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday and icy winds sweeping across the plains.
He had even visited the last post at Uri in north Kashmir, posing for pictures at a bridge treated as a Line of Control between India and Pakistan.
Here are the latest updates from the Valley.
