A huge cache of arms and ammunition, which includes an AK-47 rifle, magazines, grenades, RPG-7 rocket launcher, was recovered from the encounter site, he said.
Srinagar is under a massive security blanket for the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's poll rally on Monday afternoon.
The protesting families were on a sit-in since Wednesday morning and held a candlelight vigil after the daylong protest.
Classes were not held in most schools across Kashmir as students did not turn up due to the prevailing situation, they said.
The defence minister will review the security situation along the Line of Control in the Valley and Line of Actual Control in the Ladakh region.
Though markets and commercial establishments remained shut and students stayed away from schools.
Mehbooba flagged-off the fortnightly train ride for children from Banihal to Baramulla on Sunday morning, an official spokesman said.
The processions stand banned in Kashmir since 1990 when armed insurgency began.
The weatherman has forecast widespread downpour in the Valley on Saturday and scattered precipitation on Sunday.
The idea of the garden, spread over 30 hectares in the foothills of snow-clad Zabarwan range, was conceived to advance the tourism season in the valley by two months.
As many as 160 terrorists were killed and 102 arrested in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Laroo area of Kulgam district in south Kashmir following specific information about the presence of terrorists in the area, he said.
Jaish-e-Mohammad, the Pakistan-based terror outfit, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The consignment was expected to fetch over Rs 300 crore if it had reached the market.
Normal life continued to remain affected in Kashmir for the 83rd straight day on Thursday due to the separatists' call for shut down.
The suspension of four National Conference members had prompted the opposition leaders to boycott the ongoing session of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly.
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Redbug area of Budgam on Tuesday evening.
Elections in Jammu and Kashmir can be held "anytime from now" as the work on updation of voters list is almost over, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday but remained non-committal about setting a time-frame for restoration of statehood to the Union territory (UT).
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Curfew-like-restrictions were imposed in the old city of Srinagar and some uptown areas to foil protests and a sit-in at the historic Jamia mosque after the Friday prayers.
An army major, a trooper and three militants were killed in a nearly 24-hour-long gunfight, which ended on Saturday in south Kashmir's Shopian district.
Mobile Internet services continued to remain snapped in the Valley.
"The incidents of targeting civilians in Kashmir since a few days are barbaric. Innocent people who are working for the society and have nothing to do with anyone are being targeted," the police chief said.
The JuD's Muslim Medical Mission would request the Pakistani government for help in this regard.
The students of the Sri Pratap College were protesting against the alleged "high handedness" of security forces.
Three persons were killed and six others injured in a firing at Qazigund in Anantang district of violence-hit Kashmir.
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The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said the agenda of the new political outfit would be to struggle for the restoration of J and K's statehood and to fight for the job and land rights of people.
The slain militants are reported to belong to the district.
"We noticed some suspicious movement in the Hathlanga area near the LoC. The infiltrators were challenged and three of them were killed," an Army officer said.
Northern Army commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on Monday said the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits and non-local labourers by militants was to keep terrorism alive in Kashmir.
The listed terrorists have been identified as Ashiq Hussain Ganaie of Panjran Pulwama and Imran Ahmad Bhat of Arihal Pulwama.
A day after encounter, internet services were suspended in Kupwara district of Kashmir on Sunday.
The grenade blast which killed a protester took place at Brakpora village in Anantnag district of south Kashmir.
The students were happy to reunite with their classmates after so long and wished that there are no further disruptions to their studies.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in Srinagar was minus 14.4 degrees Celsius in 1893.
'Only 50-60 continued to remain behind bars and the rest were released'
'Both my father and brother are very strong. Their spirit is unbroken,' says Dr Farooq Abdullah's daughter and Omar's sister, Safiya Abdullah Khan.
In Jammu and Kashmir, Eid prayers passed off peacefully and there was no report of any untoward incident, the police said.
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