March 29, 2024 06:12 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
PM Modi has mastered art of manipulating democracy, hurting Constitution: Mallikarjun Kharge | Mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari dies of cardiac arrest at 63 | NIA arrests key conspirator in Bengaluru cafe blast case | Actor Govinda returns to politics after 14 years of 'vanvas', joins Eknath Shinde camp | 'To browbeat and bully others is vintage Congress culture': PM posts after 600 lawyers write to CJI

NIT Row: Normal life hit in Kashmir

India Blooms News Service | | 12 Apr 2016, 03:25 pm
Srinagar, Apr 12 (IBNS) Normal life was hit in the Kashmir Valley due to a strike called by Kashmir separatist groups to protest against the alleged harassment of Kashmiri students outside the state on Tuesday.

Schools, colleges and business establishments remained closed in Kashmir while thin attendance was witnessed in banks and government offices, officials said.

Authorities have placed Geelani and Mirwaiz under house arrest in Srinagar while Malik was taken into preventive custody and lodged in a local police station two days ahead of  shutdown call.

The streets in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital and other major towns in the Muslim-majority valley were largely deserted. Thousands of troops were deployed to prevent any protest.

Separatist groups, including both factions of Hurriyat Conference and JKLF, had called for a strike today to protest alleged beating and so-called harassment of Kashmiri students outside the state.


(Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.