Kashmir Violence And Stone Pelters

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  Talks Tough During Stone-Pelting, Firing, Says Mehbooba Mufti, Meets PM

  The approach of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is what's urgently needed as salve for Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was told today by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti during a meeting in Delhi.

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  Cases Against Stone-Throwers In Kashmir To Be Reviewed, Says Government

  The Jammu and Kashmir government has announced a velvet glove approach to review cases against those accused of throwing stones and violence during the five-month long unrest in Kashmir this year. Officials say cases against young men who are not involved in serious offences will be reviewed, in a move seen as an effort to reach out to the proteste...

• Prime Minister's peace balm for Kashmir's angry youth

  Tufail Mattoo, Amir Ashraf - Kashmir's children of conflict. Children and teenagers who have become the face of the Kashmir tragedy. (Watch: Kashmir's children of conflict)The two-month strife that began with the death of 17-year-old Tufail Mattoo. A boy who was walking back home from a tuition class when a tear gas shell, apparently meant for a pr...

• 38 young MPs write to the youth of Kashmir

  Thirty-eight young members of Parliament have written to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir expressing empathy, pleading for restraint and endorsing the need for dialogue. Cutting across party lines, the MPs, including Priya Dutt, Dipendra Huda and Sandeep Dixit of the Congress, Akhilesh Yadav and Neeraj Shekhar of the Samajwadi Party and Supriya Sule ...

• BJP wants to meet PM on Kashmir situation

  Concerned over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, BJP has sought a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and directed its MLAs from the state to attend it.     "BJP has sought a meeting with the Prime Minister but we have not been given an appointment yet. We have asked our 11 MLAs from Jammu and Kashmir to come to the cap...

• Valley on the edge: Railway employees flee to Jammu

  With the Valley continuing to burn and the state symbols attacked every day, it's a death zone for employees coming in from other states.As fresh violence was reported in Budgam on Tuesday, families of railway employees have fled to Jammu. They are not Kashmiris but people from other states who say they are not safe in the Valley as protesters are ...

• Kashmir: 4 killed in fresh clashes, Centre to send more forces

  Kashmir continues to remain tense after fresh violence on Tuesday left four people dead, taking the total number of deaths in the Valley to 26 since Friday.The Centre has decided to send an additional 2,000 paramilitary personnel to Kashmir, adding to the existing 3,200 currently based in the state. The additional forces will be deployed in all tro...