Srinagar Protests

A non-local medical student at the Srinagar Government Medical College here was suspended on Wednesday following protests by fellow students against his alleged blasphemous post on a caller app.

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar has been closed and the students asked to leave the campus and the hostel amid tensions over an alleged blasphemous post by a non-local student.

Several female students of Vishwa Bharti Higher Secondary School here staged a protest against its administration on Thursday, alleging that they were denied entry to the institute for wearing abaya.

BJP's Ravinder Raina assured the Pandits that senior leaders of the party are arriving in Jammu tomorrow (Saturday) to meet the community leaders

Protesters lash out at security agencies, too, over alleged terror strikes during Navarati festival and just ahead of Home Minister Amit Shah's visit

Trucks were allowed to move on Monday after protests across the valley; growers say 8,000 trucks with apples worth crores were stuck

The Uttar Pradesh Police were seen using lathis to hit protesters before arresting them today in Prayagraj, where a demonstration was held in parts of the city.

Hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits came out in Srinagar today in protest against targeted killings. Many of them, especially government employees from the Kashmiri Pandit community, have left the valley and the rest have threatened to migrate to Jammu.

Police said the accused were involved in rioting, anti-national/communal sloganeering, and hooliganism outside Yasin Malik's house before his sentencing yesterday.

Before leaving the Lal Chowk area, the protesters en mass chanted "Om" and then marched to the BJP's state office in the Jawahar Nagar area of the city where they raised slogans against the party.

The mosque is located at Nowhatta in downtown Srinagar, it used to be a site of stone-pelting and clashes between police and protesters. The protests and stone-pelting incidents have effectively stopped in the last three years.

In a late night operation, police swooped down on protesting relatives of Mudasir Gul and Altaf Bhat, two businessmen who were killed in a controversial encounter at Hyderpora neighbourhood of Srinagar on Monday.

The family of Dr Mudasir Gul and Ataf Bhat - two men who died during a controversial encounter in J&K's Hyderpora this week - braved the winter chill to hold a protest and a candlelight vigil on Wednesday to demand the return of their bodies.

Families of two civilians killed in the Hyderpora encounter in Srinagar held a protest here today, demanding justice for the victims and the return of their bodies.

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday led a strong protest in Jammu against the civilian killings by security forces, and demanded handing over of bodies of those killed to their families.

A non-local medical student at the Srinagar Government Medical College here was suspended on Wednesday following protests by fellow students against his alleged blasphemous post on a caller app.

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Srinagar has been closed and the students asked to leave the campus and the hostel amid tensions over an alleged blasphemous post by a non-local student.

Several female students of Vishwa Bharti Higher Secondary School here staged a protest against its administration on Thursday, alleging that they were denied entry to the institute for wearing abaya.

BJP's Ravinder Raina assured the Pandits that senior leaders of the party are arriving in Jammu tomorrow (Saturday) to meet the community leaders

Protesters lash out at security agencies, too, over alleged terror strikes during Navarati festival and just ahead of Home Minister Amit Shah's visit

Trucks were allowed to move on Monday after protests across the valley; growers say 8,000 trucks with apples worth crores were stuck

The Uttar Pradesh Police were seen using lathis to hit protesters before arresting them today in Prayagraj, where a demonstration was held in parts of the city.

Hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits came out in Srinagar today in protest against targeted killings. Many of them, especially government employees from the Kashmiri Pandit community, have left the valley and the rest have threatened to migrate to Jammu.

Police said the accused were involved in rioting, anti-national/communal sloganeering, and hooliganism outside Yasin Malik's house before his sentencing yesterday.

Before leaving the Lal Chowk area, the protesters en mass chanted "Om" and then marched to the BJP's state office in the Jawahar Nagar area of the city where they raised slogans against the party.

The mosque is located at Nowhatta in downtown Srinagar, it used to be a site of stone-pelting and clashes between police and protesters. The protests and stone-pelting incidents have effectively stopped in the last three years.

In a late night operation, police swooped down on protesting relatives of Mudasir Gul and Altaf Bhat, two businessmen who were killed in a controversial encounter at Hyderpora neighbourhood of Srinagar on Monday.

The family of Dr Mudasir Gul and Ataf Bhat - two men who died during a controversial encounter in J&K's Hyderpora this week - braved the winter chill to hold a protest and a candlelight vigil on Wednesday to demand the return of their bodies.

Families of two civilians killed in the Hyderpora encounter in Srinagar held a protest here today, demanding justice for the victims and the return of their bodies.

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) President Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday led a strong protest in Jammu against the civilian killings by security forces, and demanded handing over of bodies of those killed to their families.