J&K: Police use teargas shells to disperse stone-pelters

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 18:19

Police burst teargas shells and used batons to disperse stone-pelting protestors at Maisuma in the heart of the city this afternoon, official sources said.

Posters in Srinagar ask Hurriyat to review its agitation

Last Updated: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 16:07

Posters appeared in the commercial hub of Lal Chowk and Residency Road in Srinagar city on Saturday carrying a two-day ultimatum to hardline Hurriyat Conference to review its decision on continuing protest bandhs indefinitely.

Kashmir interlocutors meet stone pelters in jail

Last Updated: Sunday, October 24, 2010, 23:33

Visiting the Central jail for the second time in two days, the team of interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday met "hardened" terrorists, militants.

J&K: 5 injured in clashes with security forces

Last Updated: Friday, October 1, 2010, 21:44

Five persons were injured during clashes with security forces at two places in Kashmir Valley, where curfew was on Friday extended to Pulwama and Shopian district headquarters as precautionary measure, officials said.

Chidambaram assails stone-pelters as Kashmir schools reopen

Last Updated: Monday, September 27, 2010, 15:03

Home Minister P Chidambaram expressed happiness over schools reopening in the Kashmir Valley on Monday and students attending classes after three-and-half months of closure.

Targeted by stone-pelters, J&K police bear scars of violence

Last Updated: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 17:21

The fury of Kashmir`s stone pelters has left nearly 1500 police personnel injured in just eight weeks of turmoil.

Pelters-turned-SPOs to deal with stone throwers

Last Updated: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 18:17

In a new strategy to combat stone pelting menace, the Jammu and Kashmir police are wooing the separatist-backed misguided youth and even made some of them Special Police Officers to take on their former partners in crime.

J&K govt to rehabilitate stone pelters

Last Updated: Friday, March 19, 2010, 11:09

Jammu and Kashmir government on Thursday said a policy for rehabilitation of stone pelters is in the offing.

Stone-pelters with separatist link in Kashmir booked under PSA

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 17:59

The Kashmir valley has witnessed relatively peaceful Fridays and Sundays after Jammu and Kashmir Police carried out a crackdown on stone-pelters and arrested 419 of them during the last one month.