Srinagar, August 30: After 76 deaths since January, the state government has moved to introduce non-lethal weapons supposed to minimise the chance of casualty during street demonstrations in the Valley. However, these non-lethal weapons have failed to produce the desired results. In fact, a week after they were introduced, Srinagar saw its first casualty.

Last Monday, Sopore resident Danish, who was in his early twenties, got hit by a pellet in his abdomen and chest. He succumbed to...

Srinagar, August 27: Notwithstanding the inconvenience caused to hundreds of students, paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) continues to occupy some 150 rooms of hostels at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) here.

Out of the total five hostels at the state’s most reputed engineering college: Indus, Chenab, Tawi, Jehlum and Girls hostel, the CRPF is holding 50 rooms in the Tawi hostel while 99 rooms from the Chenab hostel are also under the paramilitary force’s...

Srinagar, August 26: A National Conference activist and former Army informer was denied burial in a local graveyard in South Kashmir’s Shopain district on Thursday by locals. 30-year-old Ghulam Jeelani of Shah Mohalla, died of cardiac arrest early this morning and is survived by two children and wife. Jeelani is the son of a prominent political activist, Ghulam Nabi Shah, who unsuccessfully contested elections in 1996 and 2002.

Eyewitnesses said that when Jeelani's body was being prepared...

Srinagar: Two days ago, this story was supposed to be about a miracle survivor, who had cheated death despite the grave nature of his injury. But today, it is not. At 4 am, Thursday, nine-year-old Milad Ahmed Dar, lost his battle to death in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), after six days.



During last weekend’s protests in Islamabad, scores were hurt. Three youth even lost their lives to bullets or tear gas shells. It was...

Srinagar: Abdul Ahad Jan, the suspended police head constable, who hurled a shoe at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during the Independence Day parade in Srinagar's Bakshi Stadium, returned to his Ajas village in Bandipora district to a hero’s welcome.

Contrary to yesterday’s meeting with the chief minister, where he was seen weeping, a defiant Jan said he did not repent his decision to throw a shoe at Abdullah. He also claimed he had been tortured by the police during interrogation.

The...

Srinagar, August 15: Abdul Ahad Jan, the head constable of Jammu and Kashmir Police who hurled a shoe at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during the Independence Day function at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar on Sunday is not mentally ill, as claimed by the police, family members and neighbours say.

Jan who hails from Ajas in north Kashmir's Bandipora district was rounded up by Abdullah's security men as he hurled a brown leather shoe at the chief minister while shouting pro-freedom and anti-India...

Srinagar: Irshad Ahmed Latoo (35) who was shot dead by the police and the Central Reserve Police Force in Lazibal area of south Kashmir’s Islamabad district Saturday refused to drink water, as he was on a fast while he was on way to a hospital in Srinagar, an eyewitness told Kashmir Dispatch.

Locals alleged the police and the CRPF fired 'without any provocation' in which ten persons were injured. The teenager, Irshad Ahmed Latoo, son of Mohamad Ramzan Latoo of S K Colony succumbed to...

Eyewitnesses say he was run-over by a Rakshak Srinagar, August 5: "After he was hit, the Rakshak overran him and he was dragged for a while. They wouldn’t let him go. Finally, we had to stone the Rakshak to free him," says eyewitness. After Tariq Ahmad Mir (20) was critically injured by a tear gas shell on Saturday in Bijbehra, south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, he was "deliberately run-over by a Rakshak on the orders of the police," says an eyewitness. The youth breathed his last on...