A 32-year-old man chargesheeted in the deadly terror attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district five years ago has died of a heart attack in the Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu, officials said.
The grenade missed the intended target and exploded on the road.
Women will have a decisive say as chairpersons in seven of Jammu and Kashmir's 20 districts.
The blast rocked the school when students of Class 10 were taking winter tuition.
One civilian was also killed after he caught in the crossfire.
The security forces had launched a cordon-and-search operation at Hanjin village in the Rajpora area of Pulwama following information about the presence of the terrorists there, a police official said.
The camp had been set up recently with a view to enhance security in this militancy-infested district due to the ongoing Panchayat elections.
The youths were detained from Pulwama and Awantipora during the night on suspicion of links with the planning of the suicide attack.
National Conference leader and former Sarpanch, Fayaz Ahmad Bhat died on Sunday afternoon after he was shot by to motorbike-borne assailants.
Mir was allegedly involved in the killing of former sarpanch Fayaz Ahmad of Kakapora in March.
Mohammad Iqbal Rather, 25, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam, had allegedly facilitated the movement of Muhammad Umar Farooq -- a member of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed and the key conspirator in the case -- after he infiltrated into the Indian territory in the Jammu region in April 2018, a spokesperson of the NIA said.
Officials said that 22-year-old Shakir Bashir Magrey, a furniture shop owner and resident of Hajibal, Kakapora in Pulwama, had provided shelter and other logistical assistance to suicide-bomber Adil Ahmad Dar.
'Government intervention in agricultural trade is a problem for farmers.'
Waiz-ul-Islam, 19, of Srinagar's Bagh-e-Mehtab locality and Mohammad Abbass Rather, 32, of Hakripora village in Pulwama district were arrested by the NIA, the official said.
As the security forces were engaged in the counter-militancy operation, over 100 protesters pelted stones on them, an army official said.
Fresh clashes broke out between protesters and security forces in Kashmir, even as Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is set to visit the Valley on Saturday.
The officials said the scattered remains of the bus, reduced to blackened bare frames after the blast, does not reflect that an improvised explosive device (IED) was used to target it.
'We should give azaadi to Jammu and Ladakh from the domination of Kashmir valley politics,' suggests Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
The aim of his visit was to explore how financial institutions can be co-opted in reviving the local economy.
The heightened militancy this year in Pulwama is receiving ground support with the local people posing maximum resistance to the forces.
No major clash was reported on Thursday from anywhere in Kashmir.
More than 100 people have died in rain-hit Jammu and Kashmir, which is witnessing its worst flood in 50 years.
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