Sayeda Aasiya Andrabi, the leader of the radical all-women Kashmiri group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Faith), was on Saturday arrested by the police in a raid on a house at Habbak here.

Jammu and Kashmir Roads and Buildings and Mechanical Engineering minister Gulam Muhammad Saroori was on Thursday dismissed by the state governor following recommendation of the chief minister.

The Jammu and Kashmir policeman who threw a shoe at chief minister Omar Abdullah during an Independence Day function here but was pardoned by him and subsequently released Wednesday chanted “We want freedom” before a huge crowd that had gathered at his village house near here to greet him.

A suspended J&K policeman facing criminal cases hurled a shoe at chief minister Omar Abdullah from the VIP stand’s back row at Srinagar’s Bakshi Stadium on Sunday morning as the CM was about to unfurl

A Jammu and Kashmir police official on Sunday hurled his service shoe at chief minister Omar Abdullah during the Independence Day function at Srinagar’s Bakshi Stadium while the simmering Valley witne

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s “give peace a chance” appeal see-ms to have failed to create any impact in Kashmir Valley as the scenic region continues to simmer. Two persons were killed and eight others injured when the security forces opened fire to quell mob at Sarnal Laazbal in southern Anantnag city and at Narbal on the outskirts of summer capital Srinagar on Saturday.

On yet another bloody Friday, at least four persons were killed and over a dozen others injured when the CRPF and state police opened fire on rock-throwing separatist mobs across the Kashmir Valley, in one case after an argument over whether curfew was in force in the area or not.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s remark that restoration of greater autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir could be considered within the ambit of the Constitution may have enraged the BJP, VHP and like-minded parties and groups, but neither the remark nor his pledge that a solution to the state’s problems would be sought through “internal and external” dialogue and economic initiatives could impress the separatists, his actual audience.

Three French tourists, an Italian and a Spaniard were among the 170 people killed in last week’s flash floods and mudslides triggered by a cloudburst in Leh and its neighbourhood. Also, 16 Nepalese labourers and two Tibetans are reported to have perished in the catastrophe which flattened dozens of homes, government buildings, tourist cottages and hotels.

The people of Leh and its neighbourhood continued to cremate or bury their dead on Monday and simultaneously count more victims as the rescuers were able to retrieve more bodies from under the rubble of flattened homes and other buildings or those overwhelmed by heaps of mud and slush.