<p class="title">The weekly flea market here saw a huge rush, even as normal life elsewhere in Kashmir remained affected for the 77th consecutive day on Sunday, following abrogation of Article 370 provisions, officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Main markets remained shut and public transport was off the roads. Private vehicles were plying unhindered in the city and elsewhere in Kashmir, while auto-rickshaws and a few inter-district cabs were seen in some areas of the Valley, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The weekly flea market, locally known as 'Sunday Market', was open as several dozen vendors had put up stalls on the TRC Chowk-Batamaloo axis through Lal Chowk city centre, the officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The market witnessed a huge rush of customers, as thousands of people thronged it for purchasing clothes and other items.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, elsewhere, life remained affected. Shops opened for a few hours early in the morning in some areas, including the commercial hub of Lal Chowk, but the main markets and other business establishments were shut, officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Internet services - across all platforms - continued to be unavailable in the valley, the officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most of the top-level and second-rung separatist politicians have been taken into preventive custody while mainstream leaders, including two former chief ministers - Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, have been either detained or placed under house arrest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another former chief minister and Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah, has been arrested under the controversial Public Safety Act, a law enacted by his father and National Conference founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in 1978 when he was the chief minister. </p>
<p class="title">The weekly flea market here saw a huge rush, even as normal life elsewhere in Kashmir remained affected for the 77th consecutive day on Sunday, following abrogation of Article 370 provisions, officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Main markets remained shut and public transport was off the roads. Private vehicles were plying unhindered in the city and elsewhere in Kashmir, while auto-rickshaws and a few inter-district cabs were seen in some areas of the Valley, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The weekly flea market, locally known as 'Sunday Market', was open as several dozen vendors had put up stalls on the TRC Chowk-Batamaloo axis through Lal Chowk city centre, the officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The market witnessed a huge rush of customers, as thousands of people thronged it for purchasing clothes and other items.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, elsewhere, life remained affected. Shops opened for a few hours early in the morning in some areas, including the commercial hub of Lal Chowk, but the main markets and other business establishments were shut, officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Internet services - across all platforms - continued to be unavailable in the valley, the officials said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most of the top-level and second-rung separatist politicians have been taken into preventive custody while mainstream leaders, including two former chief ministers - Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti, have been either detained or placed under house arrest.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Another former chief minister and Lok Sabha MP from Srinagar, Farooq Abdullah, has been arrested under the controversial Public Safety Act, a law enacted by his father and National Conference founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in 1978 when he was the chief minister. </p>