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Valley hopes for record tourists this year

Jammu and Kashmir, which was visited by a record number of over 1.3 million domestic and foreign tourists in 2011 following almost return of peace in the hinterland and significant improvement in security situation elsewhere, is hoping to host bigger number of guests in 2012.

Pressure group threatens to kill stray dogs

As scores of people are being treated in local hospitals after they were bitten by stray dogs, whose population in Kashmir Valley has shot up manifold over the past few years, a local pressure group has threatened to launch “kill the rabies” campaign after a fortnight if the authorities fail to check the menace. They will be poisoned or even “beaten to death” by volunteers, it said.

J&K avalanche:1 dead, 6 missing

Five Army soldiers and two BSF men were buried under a snow avalanche in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier district of Kupwara which is receiving heavy snowfall, accompanied by occasional blizzard, for the past two days, officials here said.

1,300 stranded passengers rescued

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday began airlifting passengers stranded after heavy snowfalls that caused the blockage of Srinagar-Jammu highway, the vital road-link connecting the Kashmir Valley with rest of the country.

Officers’ negligence claims trainee cop’s life in J&K

While Kashmiri women (above) play with snowballs, and at a time when the Jammu and Kashmir police is making use of its workforce and gear to supplement the government’s endeavour to cope with the tough conditions created by the heavy snowfall the Valley has been receiving for the past couple of days, its officials overseeing a training school were caught napping, resulting in the death of a trainee and injuries to 38 others on Monday.

Politicians abandon Valley as cold deepens

The Kashmir Valley is reeling under harsh winter. Though temperatures have climbed following fresh heavy snowfall on Sunday, the communications have been disrupted almost all over the scenic region. The power situation is better than it was in the wake of snowfall received earlier this month when even summer capital Srinagar was deprived of electricity between 48 to 64 hours at a stretch following reported technical snag.

Omar: Best of times, worst of times

Omar Abdullah, the scion of Jammu and Kashmir’s most illustrious but equally controversial political family — the Abdullahs — and the youngest chief minister the state, completed three years in office

Omar meets slain student’s family

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday visited the home of the Class 12 student killed in CISF firing during a protest over erratic power supply outside NHPC office at Boniyar, Uri,

‘NCPH exploiting J&K water resources’

The killing of a youth by the CISF personnel at Boniyar, Uri, near the Line of Control has taken place at a stage when the state government is under tremendous pressure from the Opposition, separatists and civil society groups to seek return of various power projects from the NHPC, including the one fed by Jhelum at Uri.

5 CISF men held after firing in kashmir kills 1

The power crisis row in Kashmir got uglier on Monday when Central Industrial Security Force personnel guarding an NHPC office at Boniyar, Uri, near the Line of Control, fired on a protesting crowd, killing a youth and injuring two other older people.

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