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Varmul/ Srinagar, July 2: Amid curfew and heavy police deployment in north Kashmir’s Varmul town, thousands of people took to the streets for fourth consecutive day today to protest the killing of four youth in police and CRPF firing since Monday. Meanwhile, Kashmir Valley observed a complete shutdown for third day in response to the strike call given by the Hurriyat Conference (G) against the Varmul killings.
Hundreds of people gathered at Khawja Bagh, Khanpora and other parts of the town this morning and took out processions. Raising pro-freedom and anti-India slogans, protesters marched More

Varmul, July 2: The additional deputy commissioner, Muhammad Ashraf Shanthoo, investigating the Varmul killings, on Thursday asked the senior superintendent of police to furnish the details of police and CRPF deployment in the town on the days youth were killed.
Four youth, Muhammad Saleem, Amir More

Pulwama, July 2: Protesters torched a police vehicle whose driver ran over two men during a demonstration against Shopian double rape and murder in Trichoo area of this south Kashmir district on Thursday.
Witnesses said the driver of the police vehicle (JK13-2361) hit and critically wounded two men More

Srinagar, July 2: The chief minister, Omar Abdullah, who is also the chairman of Muslim Waqf Board, on Thursday constituted an in-house committee to look into the “irregularities and mismanagement” during the past six years. The direction came when, chairing the first meeting of the newly-constituted More

Islamabad, July 2: At least six people were killed and more than 15 injured on Thursday when a suspected Taliban suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a government bus in Rawalpindi, the military’s garrison city just outside Islamabad.
The bus was said to be carrying employees from the state-owned More

Islamabad, July 2: Underscoring the “right to self- determination for Kashmiris,” Pakistan today claimed the “very fragile” situation in the state could not be tackled through administrative and political measures as suggested by Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said More

13th Finance Commission
Srinagar, July 2: Jammu and Kashmir government has sought a whopping Rs 46,000 crore funding from the 13th Finance Commission to lend the much-needed impetus to the state’s development effort over the next five years.
The financial package was projected More

Srinagar, July 2: Announcing that there would be no strike from tomorrow, the Hurriyat Conference (M) Thursday asked separatist organizations to adopt a consultative mechanism before giving any program for protests or strikes.
“There were too many independent programs from different separatist More

Srinagar, July 2: Police on Thursday stopped the Peoples Democratic Party president, Mehbooba Mufti, and three of her party MLAs near Parimpora when they were on their way to Varmul to express solidarity with the families of four persons killed in police and CRPF firing over the past three days.
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Varmul, July 2: People consoling Abdul Rashid Mir of Tawheed Gunj here over the death of his only son quote scriptures, which say the heaviest burden on shoulders of a man is the coffin of his son. Abdul Rashid carried his heaviest burden yesterday when he shouldered the coffin of his son, Amir Mir More

Larkipora (Dooru), July 2: Despite restrictions imposed by the authorities on movement of people in Larkipora and adjacent areas on Thursday, people demonstrated against the enforced custodial disappearance of a teenager Basharat Ahmad by army even as the police and civil officials told the villagers More