http://www.citybengaluru.com Latest news from Bangalore, India and the World Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:14:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.citybengaluru.com/srinagar-jammu-highway-closed-for-second-day/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/srinagar-jammu-highway-closed-for-second-day/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:31:52 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81207 Srinagar, Feb 5 (IANS) The Srinagar-Jammu highway remained closed for the second day Sunday as fresh snowfall and shooting stones continued at vulnerable sectors of the road, an official said. Due to fresh snowfall in the Bannihal and Patnitop sectors coupled with shooting stones in Panthal, no traffic is allowed to ensure the safety of [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/srinagar-jammu-highway-closed-for-second-day/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-reverberates-with-prayers-on-eid-e-milad/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-reverberates-with-prayers-on-eid-e-milad/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:38:31 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81195 Srinagar, Feb 5 (IANS) Despite rain and snow, thousands of Kashmiris Sunday celebrated the birthday of the founder of Islam, Prophet Muhammad, spending the night in mosques and shrines of the Kashmir Valley. Hundreds of devotees offered ‘Durud’ (Praises of the Prophet) and spent the night in prayer and penance at the Hazratbal Shrine, the [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-reverberates-with-prayers-on-eid-e-milad/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/two-let-guerrillas-killed-in-kashmir/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/two-let-guerrillas-killed-in-kashmir/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:41:02 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81023 Srinagar, Feb 4 (IANS) Two separatist guerrillas of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, army sources said. “On specific information about the presence of some terrorists, troops of the counter insurgency Rashtriya Rifles and police surrounded a house in Dura (Litter) village of Pulwama district late Friday,” Lieutenant [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/two-let-guerrillas-killed-in-kashmir/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/moderate-intensity-quake-in-kashmir-valley/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/moderate-intensity-quake-in-kashmir-valley/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:56:50 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81005 Srinagar, Feb 4 (IANS) A moderate intensity earthquake rocked the Kashmir Valley Saturday morning, disaster management officials said. No damage to life or property has been reported so far. “The magnitude of the earthquake was 4.7 on the Richter Scale. It occured at 5.02 a.m. Saturday morning,” Aamir Ali, in-charge of the provincial disaster management [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/moderate-intensity-quake-in-kashmir-valley/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/fresh-snowfall-blocks-srinagar-jammu-highway/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/fresh-snowfall-blocks-srinagar-jammu-highway/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:44:19 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81004 Srinagar, Feb 4 (IANS) Fresh snowfall across the Kashmir Valley Saturday blocked the Srinagar-Jammu highway and an avalanche warning has been issued for people living in the higher reaches, an official said. “Fresh heavy snowfall started in the Bannihal sector of the Srinagar-Jammu highway during the night and is still continuing. The highway has been [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/fresh-snowfall-blocks-srinagar-jammu-highway/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-rights-panel-headless-cases-pile-up/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-rights-panel-headless-cases-pile-up/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:00:58 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80823 Srinagar, Feb 3 (IANS) Over 1,100 cases have piled up with the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) in the militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, as it has remained headless for more than three months now, affecting hearings by the panel. ‘The chairman of the state’s Human Rights Commission demitted after completion of term Oct 23, 2011, [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-rights-panel-headless-cases-pile-up/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/srinagars-night-temperature-rises-above-freezing-point/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/srinagars-night-temperature-rises-above-freezing-point/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:42:58 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80799 Srinagar, Feb 3 (IANS) For the first time in 40 days, the minimum temperature in Srinagar rose above the freezing point early Friday even as the weather office forecast moderate to heavy snowfall in the valley. “After 40 days, the minimum temperature rose above the freezing point in Srinagar. The minimum temperature was two degrees [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/srinagars-night-temperature-rises-above-freezing-point/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/criticism-of-fatwa-on-priests-unfortunate-kashmir-mufti/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/criticism-of-fatwa-on-priests-unfortunate-kashmir-mufti/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:53:37 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80569 Srinagar, Feb 2 (IANS) While not naming separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, Kashmir’s grand Mufti Thursday said it was “unfortunate and intriguing” that some Muslims had criticised the fatwa seeking expulsion of four Christian priests from Jammu and Kashmir. A statement issued here by the deputy grand Mufti on the Mufti’s behalf Thursday said, “I [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/criticism-of-fatwa-on-priests-unfortunate-kashmir-mufti/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/snowfall-forecast-in-kashmir-in-early-february/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/snowfall-forecast-in-kashmir-in-early-february/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:37:28 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=80073 Srinagar, Jan 31 (IANS) Moderate to heavy snowfall has been forecast in the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region in the first week of February. A western disturbance is approaching Jammu and Kashmir and is likely to affect the state and adjoining areas from the evening of Feb 3 to Feb 7, a weather advisory [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/snowfall-forecast-in-kashmir-in-early-february/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-education-minister-cheated-for-sons-exam/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-education-minister-cheated-for-sons-exam/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:09:15 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79950 Srinagar/Jammu, Jan 30 (IANS) In a major embarrassment for senior Congress leader and Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister Peerzada Sayeed, a newspaper in Srinagar Monday carried the facsimile of an answer sheet in two handwritings — alleging that part of it had been written by an official to help his son pass the secondary school [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-education-minister-cheated-for-sons-exam/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/iaf-airlifts-stranded-kashmiris/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/iaf-airlifts-stranded-kashmiris/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:14:01 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79938 Srinagar, Jan 30 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF) Monday flew special sorties to airlift 126 people stranded in snowbound areas of Kashmir Valley and Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. The operation was carried out in Gurez in the Valley and Kargil town in Ladakh, an official statement issued here said. “The IAF airlifted [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/iaf-airlifts-stranded-kashmiris/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-education-minister-cheated-for-sons-exam/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-education-minister-cheated-for-sons-exam/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:51:32 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79777 Srinagar, Jan 30 (IANS) In a major embarrassment for senior Congress leader and Education Minister Peerzada Sayeed, a local newspaper Monday carried the facsimile of an answer sheet in two handwritings — alleging that part of it had been written by an education official to help his son pass the secondary school exam in 2009. [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-education-minister-cheated-for-sons-exam/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kargil-freezes-at-minus-25-lowest-of-the-season/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kargil-freezes-at-minus-25-lowest-of-the-season/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:58:33 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79765 Srinagar, Jan 30 (IANS) At minus 25 degrees Celsius, Kargil town in the Ladakh region Monday recorded the lowest temperature of the season anywhere in Jammu and Kashmir so far as severe cold continued across the Valley, an official said. “The present cold wave conditions are likely to continue for another three to four days [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kargil-freezes-at-minus-25-lowest-of-the-season/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-valley-continues-to-be-in-deep-freeze/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-valley-continues-to-be-in-deep-freeze/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:01:32 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79448 Srinagar, Jan 28 (IANS) Minimum temperatures continued to remain much below the freezing point in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir Valley Saturday. The Met office here said weather will be similar for the next few days. “From today till Feb 3, we are not expecting any precipitation here. However, a light snowfall could occur [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/kashmir-valley-continues-to-be-in-deep-freeze/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/one-civilian-injured-in-grenade-attack-in-kashmir/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/one-civilian-injured-in-grenade-attack-in-kashmir/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:27:00 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79230 Srinagar, Jan 27 (IANS) One civilian was injured when separatist guerrillas lobbed a grenade at an army convoy in north Kashmir’s Baramullah district Friday afternoon, police said. According to the police, a civilian sustained injuries when guerrillas hurled a grenade at a passing army convoy in Baramullah town Friday afternoon. “The injured have been shifted [...]

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