Hundreds of students attended in absentia prayers for slain professor at Kashmir University

Hundreds of students attended in absentia prayers for slain professor at Kashmir University

Hundreds of KU student staged demonstration to protest the killing of Assistant professorHundreds of Kashmir University (KU) students including girls on Sunday marched through the campus to protest the killing of Assistant professor, Dr Rafi Bhat. Raising slogans in favour of Pakistan, Azadi and against India, the students also offered funeral prayers in-absentia for the […]

Assistant professors killing: Protests rock Kashmir University

Assistant professors killing: Protests rock Kashmir University

Protests broke out in Kashmir University against the killing of Professor Mohammad Rafi Bhat in an encounter with government forces at Shopian. Sources said that hundreds of protestors assembled in the park and held pro-freedom protest demonstrations against the killing of Dr. Rafi Bhat. The protestors are marching towards the Alama Iqbal library, where they […]

Shopian: Two more civilians killed, toll reaches to five

  Five civilians have been killed so far in the clashes following the gun fight in South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday. The two more youths have been identified as Sajad Ahmad Rather who had sustained a bullet injury in the head and was declared brought dead at the District Hospital of Shopian. And Zubair […]

The scholar who was killed in an encounter at Shopian, was given doctorate degree in last November

  The scholar Mohammad Rafi Bhat, who was killed today in an encounter with government forces’ at Bandigam village of South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday, was given doctorate degree in last November. Bhat had completed his Ph.D programme on whole time basis in department of sociology after successfully defending his thesis entitled “Globalization and […]

Shopian: Two civilians killed near encounter site

Two civilians were killed by the government forces near encounter site at Bandigam village of district Shopian in South Kashmir on Sunday. The two youths have been identified as 17-year old Mohammad Asif Mir of Rohmoo Pulwama and Zubair Ahmad of Ayangund-Rajpora. Both of them were hit with bullets when they were trying to save […]

Shopian: Protesters torched two fire service vehicles

Shopian: Protesters torched two fire service vehicles

Two fire fighting vehicles have been torched by the angry civilian protesters in Badigam village of Shopian district on Sunday. Sources said that the fire services vehicles were brought to the spot to douse the flames of a house where the five militants were taking shelter. As the vehicle reached to the spot the aggrieved […]

Kashmir University suspends class work for May-7, 8

University of Kashmir suspended class-work for two days as a precautionary measure, spokesperson said. “The class work shall remain suspended on May 07, 08,” he said. Five Hizb militants, including a professor working in the sociology department of the Kashmir University, were killed during a gunfight with militants in Shopian district of south Kashmir today. […]