An uneasy peace prevailed in the curfew bound old city area of Hyderabad with stray incidents of violence overnight in Aliabad and Sultanshahi localities of the city.
With situation in the old city area of Hyderabad remaining tense after communal clashes, the Andhra Pradesh government said on Monday that additional forces, including nearly 1000 paramilitary personnel despatched by the Centre, were being deployed to restore peace in the trouble-hit areas.
Violence erupted in parts of summer capital Srinagar following the death of a class 12 student in Friday's violent clashes between protestors and security forces in old city.
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A constable was killed and two others were injured after three unidentified men on motorbike fired at them in Old Hyderabad on Friday afternoon.
A protest shutdown called by the various separatist groups on the third death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru on Tuesday affected normal life in summer capital Srinagar and other towns in Kashmir Valley.
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A strike called by separatists to protest the attack on senior Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq Qureshi evoked a partial response in the city on Saturday.
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Sunday confirmed they had arrested a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative from summer capital Srinagar in connection with the terror plot in Delhi.
Body of Reyaz Ahmad, with a big perforation in the abdomen, was found outside Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital.
Fresh protests erupted Sunday in Srinagar where the authorities have clamped strict curfew restrictions in the old city area.For the third day in sucession, protests were held in the Nishat area of Srinagar, where a youth had been shot at and killed allegedly by the security forces on Friday afternoon.
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday ordered a probe into the death of a schoolboy in the Nishat area of Srinagar on Friday as heightened tensions forced authorities to continue curfew-like restrictions in the old city areas.
A separatist sponsored protest shutdown on Tuesday paralysed life in Kashmir, even as fresh incidents of stone pelting re-occurred in parts of capital city Srinagar and other towns.
Several areas in Srinagar observed a shutdown on Monday to protest the death of a 16-year-old boy in clashes with the police, even as authorities suspended an assistance sub-inspector for acting in a "negligent and careless" manner.
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Two men, suspected to have helped an alleged Pakistani spy in procuring passport and driving licence using forged documents, were arrested on Tuesday by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh police in Lucknow.
In its application, the investigating agency stated that the accused need to be taken to Maharashtra and Rajasthan and it also wanted to question them on the possibility of recovering more explosives.
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Violence erupted in Srinagar again on Wednesday morning, following the recovery of the body of a student, who had been missing since last week.The undergraduate student, Asrar Ahmad Dar, went missing after he left his home on a motorcycle last Wednesday. His body was recovered by the police today morning.As the news of Dar's death reached Maisuma, where his family resides, hundreds of angry youths took to the streets.They shouted anti-government slogans, ransacked shops.
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In what is being suspected to be a terror attack, one home guard was killed and a head constbale was seriously injured when unknown motor cycle borne-assailants opened fire at a police picket in the old city area of Hyderabad.
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Kashmir is shut for the second consecutive day following strict curfew-like restrictions imposed by authorities to prevent the separatist march to the historic Jamia mosque in old city.
Earlier, a youth injured during clashes last week succumbed at a hospital in Srinagar on Monday morning.
While Asaduddin was booked for his alleged involvement in the attack on Congress MLC Shabbir Ali on Tuesday, a case was filed against Akbaruddin after his followers allegedly assaulted M K Mahender, a BJP civic poll candidate, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) V Satyanarayana said.
Most parts of Hyderabad remained shut on Saturday after several Muslim organisations, including the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, called for a strike to mark the 16th anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Shops remained closed and roads wore a deserted look in the old city, where thousands of policemen, along with two companies of the Rapid Action Force, maintained a tight vigil. All educational institutions, business establishments remained shut.
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Panic and tension gripped parts of Hyderabad when a suspected terrorist opened fire injuring two policemen in the old city area on Wednesday.
The meeting was organized on Idgah Ujale Shah Ground in old city of Hyderabad to protest against the incidents of subjecting Muslim youth to physical torture and failure of the police to nab the culprits of the blast in Mecca Masjid in May last year.
Strict security measures were imposed across Srinagar on Friday to foil anti-poll protests by the separatists while a senior police officer was injured in a powerful militant grenade attack at Sopore in north Kashmir on Thursday night.Hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in the city and roads in the old city have been sealed to restrict the movement of people.The separatist coordination committeehad urged the people to observe 'shutdown'
Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Moulvi Omar Farooq was detained along with hundreds of his supporters for staging a protest in Srinagar, coinciding with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Jammu and Kashmir. The rally was, however, intercepted by the police at Munawarabad area resulting in clashes. The police had to use tear gas and resort to repeated baton charges to disperse the protest rally.
Harjit Singh Chhabra, head, Sadar Nishkarm Welfare Association, estimated that losses could go up to hundreds of crores.
A group of 30 young girl students were allegedly made to wait for several hours at the airport in extreme cold on Sunday morning, as they were brought for a function to be presided over by Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
The list, prepared by the Special Investigations Team and the counter-intelligence wing of the police, ranges from the youth who were missing for last one-and-a-half decade to several others who have been untraceable since last year's series of blasts in the city.
The curfew that had been relaxed for two hours in Rajouri town on Wednesday was reimposed for a second consecutive day.
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