Srinagar, Feb 25: A curfew like situation prevailed in Srinagar on Wednesday over the killing of two young men, allegedly by the army.

Security personnel were on guard in almost every part of the city with deserted streets.

The city bore a deserted look with vehicles barred from plying on road.

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Mahashivratri, the most important religious festival of Kashmiri Pandits, is being celebrated across the Kashmir valley today.

Though a majority of Pandits migrated from the valley due to the eruption of militancy about 18-years-ago, people here continue to cherish the traditional glory associated with the annual festival.

Mahashivratri is celebrated by Kashmiri Pandits as ‘Hairath’.

The Governor, NN Vohra and several other top leaders have extended their greetings to the Pandits on the eve of Mahashivratri.

Srinagar, Feb 22 : A local police station at Sopore in Jammu and Kashmir has registered an FIR under section 302 against the Army, in connection with a firing incident on Saturday in which two youths were killed and another one was critically injured.

Twenty two Rashtriya Rifles battalion of the Army is alleged to have opened indiscriminate fire, without any provocation, on a group of people who were part of a festival of a revered Saint''s shrine in Bomai.

The firing has claimed the lives of Mohammad Amin Tantray of Bomai-Sopore and Javid Ahmad of Muslimpeer-Sopore and has injured one Firdous Ahmad.

Srinagar, Feb 22 : A local police station