Nayeem Ahmed

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah ordered the release of five top separatist leaders including the lone woman separatist leader Asiya Andrabi on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Three seasoned Kashmiri separatists, Shabir Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, and Agha Syed Hasan, joined their parties with hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s Hurriyat conference here on Wednesday.

The separatist Hurriyat Conference flayed Delhi-based TV channels for "downplaying the grave situation in Kashmir".

Shabir Ahmad Shah is the sixth separatist leader to have been arrested. Police and security forces swooped on separatist leaders ahead of their proposed march to Lal Chowk in Srinagar on Sunday.

The lack of political will and inadequate monitoring by a lethargic survey commissioner's office have reportedly delayed the project.

In a major step, the government of Jammu & Kashmir today downgraded and withdrew the security of 18 Hurriyat leaders in the state. It was felt that providing security to these separatist leaders is a wastage of scarce state resources which could be better utilised. Now, over 1,000 police personnel and over 100 vehicles are freed to do regular police work.

KOLKATA: The rickety Zeerut bridge in Alipore turned into a death trap on Wednesday night as a young trader was thrown off his bike and into the Adi Ganga through the unprotected girders.

Killing of innocent people by the police personnel has created a turbulent situation in the valley.

Curfew was imposed in old city areas to foil the separatists' march to commemorate killing of Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq and Abdul Gani Lone.

Political parties and separatists in J&K has termed the clamping of Emergency in Pakistan as unfortunate and said the development would put the ongoing peace process between New Delhi and Islamabad on the backburner.

A 24-year-old private photographer, Mohd Imran Hussain, was brutally murdered by three persons outside a private school at Santoshnagar colony on Wednesday morning.

The accused in the Bangalore terror module case visited not only Iran and Pakistan but also Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) in pursuit of their terrorist designs, the chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency has revealed.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani said he had rejected the invitation as the two-day roundtable to be chaired by PM would be 'a futile exercise'.

The deceased, identified as Mohammad Nayeem Ahmed alias Nadeem, was found frothing from his mouth and nose while bent over in a namaz position in his cell, said jail officials.

As per the registered no.2124/1998 ‘The Telugu film producer’s council’ elections will be organized shortly and this year the elections are said to be more interesting as a large number of council members are contesting for various positions in TFPC like never before.

Giving details about multiple raids conducted on Saturday, Sr Superintendent of Police (SSP) Doda Abdul Qayoom said, "The raids were conducted by the Special Investigation Unit Doda in connection with FIR registered at Police Station Gandoh."

Violence in Kashmir Valley escalated further on Sunday when eight persons were killed in separate incidents with four of them perishing in a blast at a police camp in Khrew in Pulwama district.