Young protester shot dead in Kashmir Valley
Srinagar, Sep 3 : A young man was shot dead during clashes between security forces and stone-pelters on Monday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district after a massive search operation was launched in around two dozen villages, police said.
Doctors at the S.M.H.S. Hospital here said Fayaz Ahmad Wani, who was critically injured in the street clashes, was declared dead on arrival.
Security forces used tear smoke shells and pellets to quell the protesters, injuring Wani in Dusoo village. He was first shifted to the Pulwama District Hospital, the police said.
Around half-a-dozen other civilians were also injured in the clashes. The police said the stone-pelting mob clashed with the security forces during a cordon and search operation in Pulwama District.
The search operation began following reports about the presence of militants in some villages including Putrigam, Rohmu, Rajpora, Matrigam, Goosu and Frasipora.
This is not the first such operation by the security forces in south Kashmir.
These "area domination operations" are usually undertaken to keep the militants on the run and prevent them from establishing a foothold in the region.
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Put petty politics aside; it's not about one party, but India: Rahul on TMC's loss in polls
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday termed the BJP's victory in Bengal and Assam assembly polls a "theft" of the mandate, and a big step forward in the saffron party's mission to "destroy" Indian democracy.
Gandhi also came out in support of the TMC, which has been trounced by the BJP in the polls, and urged those gloating over the loss of Mamata Banerjee's party to put petty politics aside.
"Some in the Congress, and others, are gloating about TMC's loss.They need to understand this clearly - the theft of Assam and Bengal's mandate is a big step forward by the BJP in its mission to destroy Indian democracy," Gandhi said in a post on X.
"Put petty politics aside. This is not about one party or another. This is about India," he said in his post.
The BJP ousted Trinamool Congress from power in Bengal and captured power for the third time in a row in Assam in results of assembly polls declared on Monday.
