Majlis Mashawarti Committee (MMC) spearheading the agitation for justice in rape and murder of Asiya (17) and her pregnant sister-in-law Nelofer (22) Tuesday set June 29 as deadline for government to come up with the names of perpetrators and threatened intense protests in case of failure by the ruling alliance in the state.

The teaching and other staff members of different educational institutions today took to streets in protest against the killing of two women after their rape at Shopian in south Kashmir on May 30.

Politcal Secretary to UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel is camping in Srinagar for the past couple of days if highly placed reliable sources are to be believed.

Urging the Centre to revoke the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) or face slide back in Kashmir, the president of the People Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti today warned that response of the people to Human Rights violations should not be taken as isolated incidents of law and order.

While as authorities lifted restrictions around his residence after twenty four days, chairman of his faction of Huriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Tuesday announced to visit Shopian Wednesday.

Two paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed and four others were injured when a vehicle they were travelling in collided head on with a bus carrying Amarnath pilgrims near Baltal in Ganderbal district of central Kashmir, official sources said.

A local court here has rejected application of a group of Rural Development Department (RDD) contractors seeking release of more than one crore rupees.

About 40 volunteers from villages falling along the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway are being imparted disaster preparedness training here from tomorrow.

Despite fatwa by Muslim ulemas and voice raised by social and religious organisations, the trend of committing suicide in the Kashmir valley continued as one more girl took the extreme step, official sources said here today.

Heads started rolling on the recommendations of a one-man probe panel into the Shopian rape and murder case with Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday suspending four policemen, including the then SP.