Ex-scholar among 2 militants killed

Two Kashmiri militants, including a Ph.D scholar, were killed in a gunfight with security forces on Thursday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said. Manan Bashir Wani, quit Ph.D programme to join Hizbul Mujahideen in January. He was trapped in the cordon along with another Kashmiri militant and died, police officials said.—

PTI Police use water cannon to disperse protesters against the Supreme Court’s Sabarimala verdict, in Thiruvananthapuram. —