The clashes broke out on a day when a delegation of 23 European Union MPs arrived in Srinagar for a first-hand assessment of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir

More than a thousand people, including politicians, separatists, activists and lawyers, were detained after the August 5 move of the central government to abrogate the state's special status.

Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko's counsel questioned the conduct of Jammu and Kashmir administration and claimed that few minutes before the scheduled hearing in the apex court on September 16, Abdullah was detained under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act.

Additional security bunkers are being constructed in the city and elsewhere in the valley to prevent militants from moving from one place to another

There was no classwork in schools as efforts of the state government to open educational institutions have not borne any fruit as parents continued to keep children at home in view of their safety.

The slapping of Public Safety Act (PSA) against former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah is ironical, to say the least. The Act was introduced in Jammu and Kashmir by Abdullah's father, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, on April 8, 1978, to deter timber smugglers.