Denying meritorious Muslim students admission to educational institutions on religious grounds would push them towards radicalism, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah warned today.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has defended the admission of Muslim students to Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College and said merit, not religion, must be followed by the college. The BJP has issued strong objections to the move.

The Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP has strongly opposed the admission of Muslim students to Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College in Katra, demanding an immediate rollback.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police's State Investigation Agency arrested a man on Saturday in connection with a 'white collar' terror module case, officials said.

Maulvi Irfan Ahmed, the arrested terror suspect from Jammu and Kashmir who put the Jaish-e-Mohammeds (JeM) plan to create a white collar terror module into motion, kept an eye on potential candidates who he could radicalise.

Students from Jammu and Kashmir say they are facing discrimination as investigations in the November 10 Red Fort blast and white collar terror module revealed the involvement of doctors and other individuals from the Union Territory.

Sources said that the Jaish handler got in touch with Muzamil Shakeel through Maulvi Irfan Ahmed - a cleric from Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian who radicalised the doctors and formed the white collar terror module.

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The State Investigation Agency (SIA) of the Jammu & Kashmir Police on Thursday raided the office of the Kashmir Times in Jammu for allegedly promoting activities against the country.

The act of terror done by a few people has maligned all residents of Kashmir valley, and such profiling has made them to withdraw from interacting with anyone from outside the region, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ombar Abdullah said.

The J&K Police's Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) uncovered a major linkage between the terror outfit JeM and the banned women terror group Dukhtaran-e-Millat during raids at multiple locations in the Valley on Tuesday, sources have told NDTV.

A dry fruit seller from Jammu and Kashmir's Qazigund, who had set himself on fire after police questioning related to the ongoing terror module investigation, has died during treatment at a Srinagar hospital.

The investigators have termed the Delhi blast a sophisticated 'white-collar' terror module, spearheaded by a group of doctors recently busted by Jammu and Kashmir Police.

Pacer Auqib Nabi continued his rich vein of form to return 3/30 as Hyderabad, yet to lose a match this season, were trailing by 82 runs at stumps.

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday ruled out any terrorist involvement in the Nowgam Police Station blast, stating that preliminary inputs indicate it was an accident that occurred during sample-collection work.

Inspector Asrar Ahmad Shah of the Jammu and Kashmir Police was one of the nine people killed in the accidental blast inside the Nowgam Police Station on Friday. Asrar, 38, was a resident of Kupwara.

At least four people died and five others sustained injuries when a sports utility vehicle collided with a dumper truck in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday night, officials here said.

Security forces recovered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Saturday, and later destroyed it in a controlled explosion, officials said.

A 57-year-old tailor was among the nine people who died in an accidental blast at a police station in Nowgam on the outskirts of Srinagar.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday announced an compensation of Rs 10 lakh for the family of each of those dead in the accidental blast in Nowgam police station.

The massive blast inside a police station Nowgam in Srinagar has turned one of the major victories against terrorism into a tragedy.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah has made two controversial comments in just one day. The first was linked to the module of white collar terrorists - they were doctors - that the police demolished in Haryana.

The Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP), Nalin Prabhat, stressed on Saturday that any speculation about the incident was unnecessary, as preliminary findings pointed to an inadvertent blast during a mandated forensic procedure.

An accidental blast at a police station in Nowgam on the outskirts of Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar killed nine people and injured 29 others on Friday night.