News Topic:Protests

Employees of Power Development Department (PDD) on Monday staged a peaceful protest demonstration in Srinagar against the move of the Government to unbundle the department.

Seasonal employees working with Department of Mechanical Irrigation on Friday staged a protest amid Coronavirus pandemic demanding the release of their wages before Eid.

An Army Commanding Officer Saturday pacified angry mob and stopped the issue getting snowballed into a major controversy when he ‘apologized’ to people who alleged that a soldier, part of a patrolling party, passed ‘lewd’ comments on a young girl in Singhpora area of Pattan town here in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday morning.

At least three persons including an 18-year-old youth suffered pellet injuries after clashes erupted in Rahmoo area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday afternoon, reports and officials said.

Massive protests and consequent clashes erupted in Rahmoo area in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Friday afternoon, reports said.

Clashes erupt in the premises of a quarantine centre here in Nagam Chadoora after people quarantined in the building and their relatives accused the administration of delay in declaring the tests of quarantined people.

The killing of a civilian was reported from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. A police officer confirmed the killing of the civilian during a protest and said that he was buried on Wednesday evening.

At least 25 people were injured, four of them due to “bullets” as government forces resorted to firing live ammunition and pellets in order to disperse large number of protesters near Beighpora area of Awantipora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday.