The deceased policeman was identified as assistant sub-inspector Mushtaq Ahmad.
The former Congress president has been questioning the government over the martyrdom of Indian soldiers and has demanded answers from the prime minister.
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.
Mehbooba flagged-off the fortnightly train ride for children from Banihal to Baramulla on Sunday morning, an official spokesman said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday termed as "unacceptable" the submission that Article 370 of the Constitution ceased to operate once the term of the constituent assembly of Jammu and Kashmir ended in 1957 after drafting the state's constitution.
Classes were not held in most schools across Kashmir as students did not turn up due to the prevailing situation, they said.
The weatherman has forecast widespread downpour in the Valley on Saturday and scattered precipitation on Sunday.
Though markets and commercial establishments remained shut and students stayed away from schools.
The suspension of four National Conference members had prompted the opposition leaders to boycott the ongoing session of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly.
Jaish-e-Mohammad, the Pakistan-based terror outfit, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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.
The processions stand banned in Kashmir since 1990 when armed insurgency began.
Normal life continued to remain affected in Kashmir for the 83rd straight day on Thursday due to the separatists' call for shut down.
The consignment was expected to fetch over Rs 300 crore if it had reached the market.
Former CIA operative Bruce Riedel on the Uri attack and its aftermath. Exclusive to Rediff.com
Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Redbug area of Budgam on Tuesday evening.
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.
There is no question of a Brexit-like referendum on the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday, as it grappled with the question as to whether its repeal was constitutionally legal.
As many as 160 terrorists were killed and 102 arrested in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
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.
Mobile Internet services continued to remain snapped in the Valley.
The JuD's Muslim Medical Mission would request the Pakistani government for help in this regard.
Three persons were killed and six others injured in a firing at Qazigund in Anantang district of violence-hit Kashmir.
Here are the latest updates from the Valley.
The students of the Sri Pratap College were protesting against the alleged "high handedness" of security forces.
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.
The protesting families were on a sit-in since Wednesday morning and held a candlelight vigil after the daylong protest.
The slain militants are reported to belong to the district.
Fresh snowfall disrupted normal life in Jammu and Kashmir, where an avalanche warning was issued in five districts, higher reaches and tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh and the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand on Monday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who set off a national debate when he walked the Bharat Jodo Yatra in a T-shirt in north India's cold winter, donned a pheran to ward off Kashmir's bone-freezing chill on Monday.
The accused, Faiz Rasheed, was 19 and a college student at the time of the crime and has been in custody for three-and-a-half years.
At least eight persons were killed in a cloudburst near the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas on Friday evening, damaging 25 tents and three community kitchens, officials said.
A day after encounter, internet services were suspended in Kupwara district of Kashmir on Sunday.
The students were happy to reunite with their classmates after so long and wished that there are no further disruptions to their studies.
'If democracy does not exist, if there are no political spaces, there is no media, there is no civil society, what do we rejoice?'
The listed terrorists have been identified as Ashiq Hussain Ganaie of Panjran Pulwama and Imran Ahmad Bhat of Arihal Pulwama.
The grenade blast which killed a protester took place at Brakpora village in Anantnag district of south Kashmir.
"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.
Cold wave tightened its grip in Kashmir Valley on Saturday as the night temperature plummeted to the season's lowest in many places, resulting in the freezing of fringes of the famous Dal Lake for the first time this winter.
