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.
Specialists from the counter-terror drone wing of the NSG also demonstrated the functioning of its counter-UAS mechanism at the technical area of the IAF station, sources said.
Nirmal Singh said talks could be held with the separatists and they should come forward with their grievances with an open mind.
With the sacking of the grandson, Anees-ul-Islam, and the teacher, Farooq Ahmed Butt, the total number of employees dismissed in the last six months has gone up to 27.
Six government employees, including two policemen, were on Wednesday dismissed from service for their alleged links with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, taking the total number of employees sacked in last nearly six months to 25, officials said.
'All agencies are working in a coordinated manner and the intelligence inputs are shared among various agencies on a real-time basis
After sustained questioning for nearly eight days, alleged Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Naved Yakub was brought to New Delhi on Thursday amid tight security and will be subjected to a lie detection test.
'I had emphasised this during our meeting with the PM.' 'Given our location, I had warned that there is a sensitivity involved as this is a frontier state.' 'The atmosphere around us is not conducive. But who listens?'
Singh and another accused in the case -- Irfan Shafi Mir -- were granted the relief by the court in a case filed by special cell of Delhi Police, noting that the probe agency failed to file chargesheet within 90 days from his arrest, as prescribed under law.
Experts of the NSG and investigators of the NIA are being sent to Jammu and Kashmir to join the probe into the terror attack.
The NIA questioned him for over two days before handing him over to the state police.
Official sources said that besides arms and ammunition, two maps showing general area of Uri were recovered from the four slain terrorists, who are now believed to be from Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
Captured Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Naved Yakub was subjected to lie detector test on Tuesday after he had made 'contradictory and misleading' statements about his Indian contacts and the route taken his group to infiltrate India.
The lie detector test on Naved, who is in NIA custody till August 24, be carried out at 11 am on Tuesday at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in CGO complex, after his interrogators claimed he was lying on many accounts.
'Operation all-out' is an offensive launched by the security forces to flush out terrorists.
'I've been illegally detained yet again. Since two days, J-K admin has refused to allow me to visit @parawahid's family in Pulwama. BJP Ministers and their puppets are allowed to move around in every corner of Kashmir but security is a problem only in my case,' Mufti tweeted in English and Urdu.
A detailed investigation done by the NIA and other security agencies indicated that over 40 virtual SIM cards were used in the Pulwama attack alone, and there are probably more of them floating in the cyberspace of the valley.
'This is for the first time that a strong, solid evidence-based investigation has happened.' 'It can meet international standards and put the onus on the Pakistanis.'
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
On reports about statement given by Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit on the incident, Rijiju said, "He has a habit of giving such statements and the whole world is watching. I don't want to make political statements...I think the Ministry of External Affairs and the PMO (Prime Minister's Office) may react to it."
For far too long, people in J&K have felt the government doesn't exist for them.' 'My first priority is to make them feel that not only does it exist, it is there to work for them.
The probe into last year's Pulwama terror strike that left 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel dead has virtually reached a dead end, with five persons, who were either conspirators or executers of the ghastly attack, being eliminated by security forces in various encounters. However, the case threw unique challenges for the National Investigation Agency, the anti-terror probe agency formed in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror strikes in 2008, as it there is no solid information about the perpetrators or the mastermind behind the attack.
Of the 18 terrorists killed, 14 belonged to JeM including its "six main commanders", the Lt. Gen., flanked by IGP Kashmir S P Pani and IG CRPF Zulfiqar Hassan, said.
Gauba said the JKLF spearheaded the separatist ideology in Kashmir Valley and the action was taken following the 'zero tolerance' policy of the central government against terrorism.
Vaid said NIA raids were not alone responsible for a drop in stone-pelting incidents.
The J&K police's 81 medals are the maximum awarded to any police force this year, followed by the CRPF's 55.
Three Hyderabad-based cousins, who allegedly planned to join "jihadi terror groups", were on Saturday picked up from Nagpur international airport while on their way to Srinagar, months after they were put under watch for being influenced by online Islamic State propaganda.
The PhD scholar is an active member of Jamiat-e-Talaba, the student wing of banned Jammat-e-Islami (JeI).
Top Lashkar-e-Tayiba commander Abu Qasim was gunned down on Thursday in Kashmir.
The 3 arrested were in continuous touch through WhatsApp with Maulana Mufti Ashghar, based in Muzaffarabad, whose nephew Waqas (JeM commander in South Kashmir) was killed in an encounter near Pulwama recently.
'We know how to kill a terrorist, but we do not know how to stop an innocent boy getting radicalised.'
Bhat, 36, who underwent a polygraph test, has told his interrogators that tying a "lal dupatta" around a tree in Baba Rishi forests, which was marked on the GPS, was the code that the "guests" terrorists had arrived.
The Border Security Force on Thursday said it was not privy to any "specific" intelligence input about the terrorist strike in Udhampur on a bus ferrying 44 unarmed personnel that had got "isolated" from a convoy with the lone armed soldier on board staving off the attackers who tried to enter the vehicle.
She said the prime minister who resolves the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and ends bloodshed in the state will have his name written in "golden letters" in the history.
'Individuals have been found providing money to major terrorist groups, Hurriyat leaders, separatists and stone-pelters in Jammu and Kashmir.'
A hunt has been launched for a businessman who is alleged to have paid money to Mohammed Naved Yakub, a Pakistani terrorist who was caught alive last week after the Udhampur terror strike in which two Border Security Force personnel were killed.
'The future does not look very promising for peace in Kashmir,' warns Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
He said it would have been impossible for parties with 'opposing political ideologies' to form a stable government.
While the government interlocutor for J&K may be tasked with holding talks with 'all stakeholders', the central government is singing a very different tune in the Supreme Court, Aditi Phadnis points out.
The governor said he wanted polls to take place in the state and an elected government to function.
