A giant freshwater carp nicknamed the "tiger fish" for its great fighting abilities is set to return to the fast-flowing rivers of Indian Kashmir, officials say. Scientists have built a hatchery for breeding the mahseer and hope to restock the waters of Kashmir, known as an "angler’s paradise", although few foreign fishermen venture here now due to a deadly Islamic insurgency.
Seven tourists were killed and 35 people injured on Tuesday in a series of grenade attacks targeting holiday areas in the main city of revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, police said. In the bloodiest of the attacks blamed on Islamic separatist rebels, six tourists, including five women, were killed and 15 people wounded.
Survivors of the devastating earthquake that shook Kashmir three months ago are showing signs of hypothermia and frostbite, a doctor said on Monday, as temperatures plunged below zero. Survivors living in tents and tin shacks next to their ruined homes said they are also concerned about avalanches.
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/ 16 November 2005
Four people were killed and 45 wounded when a powerful car bomb triggered by Islamic rebels ripped through a busy intersection in the main city of Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, police said. The morning rush-hour blast in Srinagar left people bleeding on the road and turned vehicles into twisted wrecks.
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/ 6 November 2005
Analysts criticised India’s decision to open just one crossing on Monday on its de facto border with Pakistan in disputed Kashmir, instead of five announced earlier, saying the process is too slow to help millions of earthquake survivors before winter sets in.
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/ 2 November 2005
Five people including a suicide bomber were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Wednesday in a car bomb blast that Islamic militants said was a "gift" to Indian Kashmir’s incoming chief minister. Police said the explosion took place in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of the summer capital Srinagar.
Intense clashes between troops and Islamic militants holed up in the heart of Indian Kashmir’s summer capital of Srinagar continued into Saturday, leaving dozens of civilians trapped, police said. The fighting, which started on Friday, has left two security-force personnel dead and 20 others injured.
It was almost as if the last 58 years of painful separation had never happened. Some of the first 30 bus passengers for more than half a century to cross from Pakistan’s side of divided Kashmir to the Indian zone kissed the ground in what just minutes before had been alien territory.
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/ 24 February 2005
At least two police officers were killed on Thursday when heavily armed militants raided the administrative headquarters of Indian Kashmir, trapping about 250 civilians who were later freed by the security forces, officials said. A paramilitary officer said ”two or more” militants had sneaked into the fortified complex of government buildings.
Fifteen people were killed in a night of violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, two days ahead of the second round of voting for the state assembly, police said on Sunday.