Protesters clash with police in Srinagar

October 3rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Protestors clashed with police in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla town Saturday, a day after a teenaged boy died when he was hit by a tearsmoke shell, a police officer said. Groups of youth gathered at two bridges connecting the old and new town areas of Baramulla and started pelting stones at police deployed to maintain law and order in the town.

October 3rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Twenty-two people, including an additional superintendent of police, were injured as protestors clashed with police in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla town Saturday, a day after a 13-year-old died when he was hit by a teargas smoke shell, an official said. "At least 12 policemen, including the Baramulla additional superintendent of police, were injured in stone pelting by an irate mob.

September 29th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Thousands of Jammu and Kashmir State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) employees on Tuesday afternoon took to streets in Srinagar and staged an anti-Government demonstrations demanding immediate disbursal of their long pending their salaries. The employees along with their families had assembled at Jehangir chowk in Srinagar to proceed towards the civil secretariat, but were stopped by the police, officials said.

September 13th, 2009 SRINAGAR - A day after the car bomb blast that killed at least three people and injured ten others near the Central Jail in Srinagar, the top brass of the police on Sunday said that the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had masterminded the attack. "We have some vital clues, we know who has done.

June 19th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Over two dozen people were wounded in post-Friday prayer clashes between police and protesters in this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital where separatists had asked people to march to Baramulla town. Mobs gathered at Nowhatta, Gojiwara, Rajouri Kadal, Kawdara and some other localities of Old City after Friday prayers, resorting to heavy stone pelting at contingents of police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) who had been deployed to thwart the days separatist march.

May 23rd, 2009 SRINAGAR - Police in Srinagar baton-charged and fired teargas shells to disperse agitating supporters of separatist leader and President of Democratic Freedom Party, Shabir Ahmad Shah on Friday. The clash took place when followers of Shabir Ahmad Shah staged a demonstration after his release.

May 1st, 2009 SRINAGAR - At least five persons, including two policemen were injured on Friday in clashes between the police and activists of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). Police said the JKLF demonstrators were protesting against the holding of elections in the Kashmir Valley.

March 7th, 2009 SRINAGAR - One man died and over a dozen protesters and security men were injured, one of them critically, in clashes after Friday prayers in the old city areas of Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar. Shahid Ahmed Ahangar was declared brought dead by the doctors at the SMHS hospital.

February 25th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Around a dozen people were injured in clashes between protesters and security men here after Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammed Yasin Malik's kin was found 'murdered' in mysterious circumstances. The body of Shabir Ahmad Sheikh, an autorickshaw driver, was found in Bemina, on the outskirts of Srinagar, in the morning.

February 22nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - At least 10 people were injured when Hindus and Muslims clashed in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh district, police said Saturday. 'The incident took place in the Srinagar Siara Bazaar locality when some members of the Ulema Council, who were returning to Azamgarh from Lucknow, allegedly shouted slogans against the Hindus,' police inspector Kamlesh Singh told IANS over phone.

February 21st, 2009 SRINAGAR - Nearly a dozen protesters and security men were injured in clashes in the old city area of this Jammu and Kashmir summer capital after Friday prayers, officials and witnesses said. Protesters took to the streets in Bohri Kadal area of the old city after the Friday Friday prayers, demanding the release of detained separatist leaders Shabir Shah and Muhammad Nayeem Khan.

February 15th, 2009 RAIPUR - At least a dozen people and eight policemen were injured here Monday when the police baton charged protesters carrying a youth's body near the official residence of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, police said. The clash broke out after over a hundred protesters carrying the body of a 23-year-old youth, Gulshan Meghani, wanted to march towards the chief minister's residence to stage a protest, but the police stopped them.

February 11th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Protesters threw stones and clashed with the security forces here Thursday demanding the removal of a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) unit. The angry protesters targeted police and CRPF troopers in Maisuma locality, adjacent to city centre Lal Chowk.

February 9th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Two paramilitary troopers and many civilians were injured in a clash here Tuesday when protesters pelted stones demanding removal of a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) unit in an uptown area of Srinagar. The stone pelting protesters clashed with the security forces in Maisuma area in the heart of city centre Lal Chowk of summer capital Srinagar Tuesday afternoon.

December 23rd, 2008 SRINAGAR/JAMMU - The crucial last phase of the staggered Jammu and Kashmir polls ended Wednesday amid minor clashes between police and anti-election protesters in Srinagar. Eight constituencies in Srinagar and 13 in Jammu and Samba polled on the last day of the seven-phase elections.