Six students who were going on a picnic, and three security personnel were injured when terrorists lobbed a hand grenade and opened indiscriminate firing at an army convoy on Monday morning
The teenager was injured in clashes between protesters and security forces in Harwan on Friday.
A militant belonging to Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Tayiba was killed in an encounter with security forces in Budgam district of Kashmir Valley on Thursday, police said.
Dar was appointed as a daily wage employee in the state Health Department and has been on election duty since Wednesday.
A massive operation has been launched to track down the attackers, who fled the spot.
The ultras killed them by slitting their throats at a nearby village.
The latest developments from the violence-hit valley.
The 45-year-old separatist leader, arrested last week on charges of waging war against the country and sedition, was booked under Public Safety Act on Thursday and shifted to Kotbhalwal Jail in Jammu.
A militant hurled a grenade at people who foiled their bid to abduct a businessman.
Landslides triggered by overnight rains claimed two lives in Baramulla district while at least seven others were feared dead after a house collapsed in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday.
Protests against the recent killing of two youths in a firing incident continued to rock Nowgam locality in Srinagar.
Faesal had no student visa, though he claimed that he was going to the United States for studies, the state government, through DIG, CKR, Srinagar, said in an affidavit.
A police official said the curbs have been imposed to maintain law and order in view of the separatists call for a march to the three districts of Baramulla, Pulwama and Srinagar.
Militants exploded a grenade in a bid to escape after making an abortive attempt to abduct a contractor.
The panel had first visited the Valley in October after which it had recommended an immediate ban on use of pellet guns by security forces.
Normal life remained paralysed for the 45th consecutive day due to curfew, restrictions and separatist sponsored strike following Wani's killing in an encounter with security forces.
From the necessity of talking to Hurriyat separatists to appointing a tehsildar, Dineshwar Sharma heard it all during his visit to the valley
In the stone-pelting, SSP Doda, one SHO, one sub-inspector and two other police personnel were injured.
The aircraft crashed as it was coming in to land at the Srinagar airport after an operational sortie. The pilot, Flying Officer B K Singh, bailed out and was in hospital with a broken arm.
Chaos has hit relief distribution in flood-ravaged Kashmir as some survivors of the natural calamity from the summer capital of the state are running from pillar to post to get food grains but to no avail.
The mood was subdued with roads deserted across large swathes of the Valley, the silence broken only by police sirens and Indian Air Force helicopters hovering overhead.
The army has quietly moved an entire brigade into south Kashmir to clear it of militants and protesters.
Curfew was on Sunday lifted from all parts of Kashmir but normal life in the Valley remained affected due to the strike call given by hardline Hurriyat Conference to protest against the firing incident in Ramban district that left four persons dead.
Security agencies braced for a march called by separatists on Monday.
The situation in the Valley is tense as the fresh order directing the zonal SPs to provide the list of mosques here and its management committees has added to speculation about some major decision in the offing regarding Jammu and Kashmir's special status.
According to a police official, an altercation broke out at a hotel where he allegedly wanted to enter with an 18-year-old woman.
The officer claimed 88 Kashmiri youths joined militancy in 2016.
At least two soldiers were killed and two others injured as militants opened fire on a vehicle checking party of the army in central Kashmir's Budgam district on Monday.
Rather than contesting the state elections from Ganderbal, the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister will be contesting the state elections from Sonwar and Beerwah, reports Mukhtar Ahmad.
A police spokesman said someone from the crowd burst a fire cracker, which the army personnel took as a grenade blast.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday condemned the elements who cause communal and sectarian divide and said these 'elements expand their activities as elections draw near'.
After remaining disrupted for 11 days, Railways today partially resumed train services in Kashmir Valley following restoration of tracks damaged by flood waters.
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