IDP leader had facilitated meetings of Geelani, Mirwaiz and Shabir Shah in Samba

News Agency of Kashmir
Jammu, May 11: The political analysts here are viewing the killing of International Democratic Party (IDP) leader Hoshiar Singh and his trade union leader wife Shashi Bala by unidentified gunmen as a “political conspiracy” saying Singh was instrumental in organizing meetings of various separatists in the predominantly Hindu area of Samba.

Rising Kashmir News
Srinagar, May 11:  Photojournalist Ashok Sodhi, 45, had to pay dearly for his urge to discharge his professional duty with sincerity.
Sodhi had reached the encounter site in Samba sector, 45 km from Jammu, with his colleagues this morning as the plains witnessed first militant attack after a gap of six years. However, fate had something else in store for him, before he could click the photographs of a house where militants were holed up, a bullet pierced through his head and he died before clicking the last picture of his life.

Jammu, May 11: Eight troopers were killed when an army vehicle fell into the Chenab river in Doda district on Sunday, official sources said.  
They said a vehicle of eight Rashtriya Rifles was on its way to Doda town when it skidded off the road and rolled into the river at Ghat area in the afternoon.

‘Family rule of NC, PDP should end’

Hakeem Irfan
Srinagar May 11: Transport Minister and Chairman Peoples Democratic Front (PDF) Hakeem Muhammad Yaseen on Sunday said that the government was ignoring Srinagar on development front as people of Srinagar were staying away from polls.

Srinagar, May 11: A trooper shot himself dead in an Army camp in Ganderbal district on Sunday, official sources said.
They said that Sepoy Ashok Kumar shot himself dead with his service rifle around 3 pm while on guard duty at Kangan camp, 40 kms from here on the Srinagar-Leh highway.

From 14 in 1999, cases registered at State Commission for Women increased to 353 in 2006-07

Umi Salma Reshi
Srinagar, May 11: The cases pertaining to post marital problems are showing a steep rise in the State, the official data of State Commission for Women reveals.
Compared to Jammu, Kashmir division is alarmingly far ahead.
The Commission, constituted in 1999, had registered three cases in Jammu and 11 in Kashmir in 2000.
In 2001, the number of cases increased in both the divisions – 16 in Jammu and 23 in Kashmir.