Srinagar, Sep 28:  A head constable of the Jammu and Kashmir Police was killed by separatist guerrillas in summer capital Srinagar Wednesday, police said.

Ghulam Muhammad, was killed in a hit and run attack by separatist guerrillas in Batmaloo area of Srinagar Wednesday afternoon.

"The head constable, posted in the Batmaloo police station, was fired upon from close range by the militants in Batmaloo chowk this afternoon. He succumbed to his injuries before he could be shifted to hospital for treatment," a police officer said.

Srinagar, Sep. 15 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has expressed dismay and anguish over speculation in the media about his private life and the status of his marriage.

In a message on social networking site Twitter, Abdullah said: " Have seen with dismay and anguish the growing tide of speculation in the media about my private life and the status of my marriage. While it''s true my wife and I have separated, speculation about the motives and my future actions are unfounded, untrue."

Srinagar, Sep. 8 : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has condemned Wednesday''s bomb explosion in New Delhi that killed 12 people and injured 75.

He said that his government would extend all cooperation to the investigating agencies and provide them with all the information. He also offered his condolences to all the victims and their families on Thursday.

He stated that the government should nab the perpetrators, and ensure that such incidents do not occur in the future.

Srinagar, Sep. 3 : Prominent Bollywood and other personalities visited Srinagar on Friday to pay tribute to flamboyant yesteryear actor Shammi Kapoor who died on August 14 in Mumbai.

The 79-year-old actor died of kidney failure.

Among those present were Reliance tycoon Anil Ambani, his wife Tina Ambani, veteran actresses Shabana Azmi, Asha Parekh and Poonam Dhillon, and socialite Sunanda Pushkar. Shammi''s son Aditya Raj Kapoor was also present.

Srinagar, Aug 27 : After his brief absence from the virtual world, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is back on Twitter, refusing to write about the man who has held the government hostage on the issue of corruption -- Anna Hazare.

"Since nothing is happening in the world other than Anna & I refuse to tweet about Anna ergo I can't tweet about anything :-)," the young chief minister posted on the micro-blogging website.

Srinagar, Aug 27 : Known for airing his views in an unrestrained, often tongue-in-cheek style, and taking prompt steps to address grievances on Twitter, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's curious absence from the virtual world for almost a week was sorely felt by the twitterati.

Abdullah did not post even a single comment on the micro blogging site from Aug 19 to Aug 25.

He is followed on the website by over 46,000 people, many of them are journalists, civil servants, businessmen and local youngsters.

Srinagar, April 1 - Picturesque Kashmir is reliving an old forgotten bond with Bollywood as director Vishal Bharadwaj shoots "Saat Khoon Maaf" here with his team. Not only there is palpable excitement among the local people but it has also revived memories of the time when the valley was much sought after by Hindi filmmakers.

For the last fortnight, the film unit has been shooting in the Mughal Gardens, the old city heritage house and in the campus of the University Of Kashmir.

They belong to different generations and political eras. But Aftab Hilali (43) alias Shahid-ul-Islam and Rouf Muhammad (22) have a lot in common. Besides their love for jeans, sneakers and cricket, both share a grudge over the absence of human rights and freedom of expression in Kashmir.

While Islam participated in the 1989 student uprising for the liberation of Kashmir, Muhammad, known as Missile for his precision in stone throwing, took to the streets in January to protest human rights violations by security forces.

Srinagar, Jan 11 : Security forces Monday surrounded a house in Kashmir's Pulwama district following reports that a group of militants was hiding inside.

A senior police official told IANS that personnel of the state police, the Rashtriya Rifles and the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have surrounded the house in Abhama village of the district, 43 km from here, after reports that two or three militants of the Hizbul Mujahideen were inside.

The house has been completely surrounded and flood-lights put up all around it.

Srinagar, Jan 11 - The Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region had no respite from extreme cold Monday as the mercury continued to remain below zero degrees Celsius during the night.

"The minimum temperature in Srinagar was minus 4.2 degrees Celsius while it was minus 20 degrees in Leh town (in Ladakh)," an official at the weather office here said.

The weather office has forecast dry weather and the temperatures here are likely to fall further in the next four to five days.

The 40-day period from Dec 21 to Jan 31, called 'Chilla Kalan' by the locals, is the coldest winter period in the Valley.

Srinagar, Jan 9 : The death of a youth injured in an alleged firing incident triggered fresh tension and clashes between protesters and the security forces in areas around city centre Lal Chowk Saturday.

Police said Mohammad Inayat Khan, 18, a resident of Dalgate area, succumbed to his injuries in the Soura medical institute aftere battling for life the whole night. His family members alleged Khan died in firing by the security forces during Friday evening's clashes in Lal Chowk.

They said the injured youth was also hit by a speeding vehicle while trying to escape the trouble in the city centre.

Srinagar, Jan 9 - An intense cold wave continued to sweep parts of Jammu and Kashmir Saturday as Leh town of Ladakh region recorded a minimum temperature of minus 20.8 degrees Celsius.

"In Leh, the maximum temperature was 0.8 degrees while the minimum was minus 20.8 degrees," an official of the weather department here told IANS.

"The minimum temperature in Srinagar was minus 4.2 degrees Celsius while the maximum was 10.8 degrees."

Srinagar, Jan 8 : Two dozen protesters including some cops were wounded in anti-India protests in summer capital Srinagar and north Kashmir towns of Baramulla and Sopore after the Friday prayers.

For the third day running, protesters took to the streets in the Maisuma locality of the city as angry youth shouting slogans clashed with police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in the area.

Srinagar, Jan 8 : Although the violent encounter at Lal Chowk in Srinagar has ended, but for some who have their business establishments in the area, the nightmare is far from over.

A two-day gun battle between security forces and separatist militants ended on Thursday.

As soon as shopkeepers opened their establishments on Friday they were shocked to see the devastation in their shops.

The shops and hotels in which the militants took shelter have been totally damaged by the gunfight and grenade explosions.

Srinagar, Jan. 8 : A day after the 22-hour security forces-terrorist encounter ended at Lal Chowk, a large group of local people, mainly shopkeepers on Friday protested over the damage done to the properties and went on rampage, following which police had to use tear gas shells and baton-charging to disperse them.

Hundreds of youths in the Maisoma area of Lal Chowk gathered after the Friday prayers and started pelting stones at the police.

Srinagar, Jan 8 - Journalists here staged a peaceful protest Friday against a police officer allegedly shooting a photojournalist who was covering the 23-hour Lal Chowk shootout between militants and security forces.

Journalists working for local newspapers, national and international newspapers as well as news agencies demonstrated at the press enclave in Residency Road.

Srinagar, Jan 8 - One separatist guerrilla of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was Friday killed in an ongoing gun battle in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said.

A senior police officer said paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers and police surrounded a house in Andrus (khew) village of Pulwama, 14 km from Srinagar, following information about presence of guerrillas inside the house.

"The hold-up militants were asked to surrender but they opened fire at the troops triggering a gun battle," the police officer told IANS.

Srinagar, Jan 8 - An intense cold wave continued to sweep the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir Friday with the district capital Leh recording a minimum temperature of minus 21 degrees Celsius.

"The maximum temperature in Leh town of Ladakh region was 0.6 degrees while the minimum fell to minus 21 degrees," an official of the weather office told IANS here.

Kashmir's capital Srinagar experienced warmer days but colder nights.

Srinagar, Jan 7 : Labyrinthine lanes, a clock tower, hundreds of shops, thousands of people and burnt buildings in the backdrop - this is Srinagar's Lal Chowk that Thursday faced more terror violence, just as it repeatedly has in Jammu and Kashmir's 20-year insurgency.

A two-man fidayeen (suicide) squad on Wednesday lobbed grenades and opened fire in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk before rushing to a nearby hotel, where they were still holed up.

A policeman was killed and 10 people — six security personnel and four civilians — were injured.

This is the first fidayeen strike in the city since October 2007, when two bombers were killed in an attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp near the Dal Lake.