The infighting that has been eating into the Congress party in Jammu and Kashmir for quite some time now grew worse with a senior party leader publicly seeking to implicate another, who is a minister in the National Conference-Congress coalition government, in cases of bribery and fraud and the latter threatening to sue him.

The Kashmir Valley continues to be in the grip of severe cold wave with minimum temperature across the region remaining several degrees below freezing point.

The minimum temperature in Srinagar was

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.

Minimum temperatures continued to remain much below the freezing point in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir Valley on Saturday. The Met office here said weather will be similar for the next few days

Mobile phones across the Kashmir Valley stopped functioning as service providers shut off connectivity as part of the high security drill for the 63rd Republic Day on Thursday.

Mobile phone services

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.

Gulmarg, the premier ski-resort of South Asia, witnessed a series of snow games on Monday coinciding with the World Snow Day, celebrated to motivate people from non-snow areas to turn to snow areas and promote winter sports.

A day after a Valley trader, associated with the Opposition PDP, was found murdered hours after he went missing while returning home from his jewellery shop in central district of Budgam, a 40-year-old business man was shot dead by unidentified men inside his house in southern Pulwama district on Tuesday.

A BSF officer was killed while six other security personnel went missing after being hit by an avalanche near the LoC in Kupwara district on Tuesday.

Sub-Inspector Narendra Kumar died while five arm

Five soldiers and two troopers were buried under an avalanche in north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Tuesday morning, an official said.

"An avalanche struck one of our posts in Keran sector of the Lo