Officials said shops, fuel stations and other business establishments re-opened this morning while public transport also operated normally.
"The community's leaders have pledged to launch a sustained struggle for restoration of the lost identity of the community and its political, social, economic and cultural rights in the state," the organiser's of the convention Youth All India Kashmiri Samaj (YAIKS) said in a statement.
Authorities ordered the closure of schools and colleges to prevent any untoward incidents. Post graduate entrance test scheduled for the day was also postponed by the University of Kashmir.
A youth, who had sustained grievous injuries in clashes during protests at Pattan against the rape of a three-year-old girl, died at SKIMS hospital here, officials said Thursday.
"Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora (GKPD) will take up the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Pandits strongly at the UN and other important world fora as well as reputed human rights organisations in different countries of the world to build consensus of opinion on the issue," GKPD Chairman K L Chowdhury told reporters.
A group of Kashmiri Pandits staged a protest here on Monday alleging that an apple orchard owned by a member of the community was vandalised by miscreants in South Kashmir.
The Arabic name of the new branch is "Wilayah of Hind" (India Province), the dreaded terror outfit, (also known as ISIS and ISIL), said through its Amaq News Agency.
A Kashmiri student who went missing nearly five months back from a university in Noida in Uttar Pradesh is languishing in a Pakistani jail, his family said on Monday.
In the last about two months, four such incidents took place which include militants killing senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary Chanderkant Sharma and his Personal Security Officer (PSO) Rajinder Kumar at the District Hospital in Kishtwar on 9 April.
"Farooq Ahmad Dar is working on consolidated terms as sweeper in the Health Department. He has been posted on election duty," said Budgam Chief Medical Officer Nazir Ahmad.
Addressing an election rally in Raigarh district headquarters in Chhattisgarh, he said when the Modi government is re-elected at the , Centre, infiltrators will be identified across the country and deported.
A police official said the ultras lobbed grenade towards the house of Mohammad Ashraf Bhat in Tral town but it landed some distance away.
"Pertinent to mention that inmates protested after alleged desecration of Quran. Government wants to turn Kashmir into an open air prison and convert actual jails into Guantanamo."
"I believe that Modi has started taking strong steps in Kashmir. Like Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, who brought about the unconditional merger of 542 princely states in the Indian Union, Modi will also bring the Kashmir question to an end."
Omar Abdullah, along with his party leaders and activists, staged a sit-in on the highway near Pantha Chowk area in the outskirts of the city demanding revocation of the order.
The home minister's comments come almost a week after former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah, in a speech in Kashmir's Bandipora, pitched for the revival of the posts of prime minister and president for Jammu and Kashmir
In its manifesto released today, the saffron party said it is committed to annulling Article 35A, which it said was "discriminatory" against non-permanent residents and women of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Joint Resistance Leadership, a separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik, had called for the shutdown.
The security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Imamsahib area of Shopian in south Kashmir following information about presence of militants there.
An official statement said: " K. Skandan, advisor to state governor, met Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran in Mumbai today to work out modalities for involvement of the corporate sector for institutionalised development of the IT sector in J&K."
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