The encounter started when security forces launched a joint operation in Posta-Potra village in Gundana area, 26 km from Doda town, following information about presence of some terrorists, the officials said.
Jammu and Kashmir recorded "zero infiltration" for the first time in 2011 despite several attempts along the India-Pakistan border, the police said on Tuesday.
Over 50 terrorists are undergoing training in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and effort is being made to push them to this side of the border, a top Jammu and Kashmir Police official on Tuesday said.
Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday appealed to media not to carry "speculative" details about the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami email in connection with the Delhi high court blast.
Four ultras from the Hindu community have been killed during the two-decade-long militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior police official said as he asserted that their fight was not for ideology, but they were lured by "power of gun."
Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire on Wednesday by resorting to mortar shelling and firing along the Line of Control in Poonch district.
After two days of violence in the area, normalcy returned on Thursday with shops and market places opening.
Seven terrorists including a top commander of the Hizbul Mujaheedin outfit were killed on Saturday in two separate encounters in Jammu region of the state, according to the police.
The Friday evening attack comes hours after five Hindu villagers were murdered and three critically wounded in the border district of Rajouri.
Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire twice by firing with small arms and automatic weapons on Indian posts along the Line of Control in Poonch district, drawing retaliation from the army.
Two of the terrorists belonged to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
The Jammu zone Inspector General Danish Rana said that the encounter took place on early Thursday morning in which two SPOs, who had deserted the police force in September and joined militants, were eliminated.
Four militants were killed in the encounter which began on Sunday.
Pakistani troops on violated the ceasefire again and resorted to firing along LoC in Poonch district in which one woman suffered injuries.
The encounters between security forces and the militants erupted at around 7.30 am and continued through the day.
Curfew continued on Tuesday in Kishtwar for the sixth day running, even as restrictions were partially lifted in Samba district and other areas of Jammu region, which were witness to recent incidents of communal clashes.
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Pakistani troops continued to violate the ceasefire by shelling and firing upon 25 Border Out Posts and 19 villages along the International Border in Jammu sector throughout the night, prompting the Border Security Force to retaliate.
After nine days of heavy firing and mortar shelling from across the border, firing de-escalated along the 192-km long border in Jammu frontier overnight with Pakistan opening fire on four border out posts in Kathua district.
Terrorists on Monday night killed seven Amarnath pilgrims, including six women, and injured 19 others as they struck at a bus in Kashmir's Anantnag district, in the worst attack on the annual pilgrimage since the year 2001. Five of those killed were from Gujarat and two from Maharashtra. Here are the latest updates:
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