While most of the shops, fuel stations and other business establishments were shut across Kashmir, many of these outlets were open in few areas in the interior city, in the civil lines as well as in the outskirts of the city.
“The situation has improved a lot.More shops are now opening and there is more transport with each passing day.The vendors are doing business as usual.All this hints at return of normalcy in the city, where many routes witnessed traffic snarls,” they said.
However, most of the schools and other educational institutions were closed.
They said similar reports of increased public activity were received from most of the other district headquarters of the Valley
