Because of these clashes, train services between Srinagar and Banihal were suspended by railway authorities for the day.
Army troops on Thursday foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in Uri sector of north Kashmir Baramulla district eliminating five intruders.
Two suspects have been detained from the encounter site, a police spokesman said.
Three troopers and a militant were killed in a north Kashmir gunfight that has been continuing for over 24 hours.
This is the first case in the Valley in which Indian Army personnel have been awarded life terms on these charges.
One of the slain militants were identified as Wasim, a Pakistani national and self-styled district commander of JeM.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 48 hours.
The operation had to be suspended on Thursday evening because of darkness as the security forces maintained a tight cordon around the hotel building to ensure that the holed up militants did not escape.
A top Lashker-e-Toiba militant involved in last year's serial blasts in Uttar Pradesh was killed along with another ultra of the outfit in an encounter with police in Pulwama district on Friday, a senior police official said. The self-styled district commander of LeT, Abdul Rahman of Pakistan alias Rehman Bhai and a local militant Moin Ahmed Mir, were killed in the gunfight with Jammu and Kashmir police personnel at Nikloora-Aglar village.
Alert troops foiled a major infiltration bid on the Line of Control in Machil sector at the border district of Kupwara on Tuesday.
The exact number of terrorists is not known but as per initial calls received at PCR Jammu four to five terrorists were involved.
Troops and the LTTE exchanged fire along a de facto border in the Wanni region on Tuesday evening, the ministry said.
The gunfight erupted after the army and police jointly surrounded Bhat Mohalla area of Handwara on specific information about presence of a group of militants there.
Four persons, including two Army soldiers and two militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit, were killed and three security men wounded in a night-long gunfight that ended on Wednesday morning in South Kashmir.
A senior police officer said the two terrorists holed up inside a hotel building were killed when troops stormed the four-storey building to end the stand off.
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Two civilians were killed and four others wounded in alleged security force firing in south Kashmir Pulwama district on Sunday afternoon.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
The incident took place at Sirnoo village in the morning when the security forces laid siege to a locality based on intelligence reports about the presence of three terrorists, including an army deserter - Zahoor Ahmad Thoker, in the area, police officials said.
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The terror strike took place at the crack of dawn when the terrorists, believed to be foreign mercenaries, entered the police complex in the worst-hit Pulwama district.
The bodies of the three militants were recovered from the debris of the house at Arwani in Bijbehara area on Friday morning after security forces blew up the building using explosives, a police official said.
After receiving sanction under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the NIA will name Azhar, his brother Rauf Asghar, and handlers of four terrorists -- Qashif Jan and Shaid Latif in the chargesheet to be filed soon, official sources said.
Intense clashes between stone-pelting youth and security forces also rocked Jamia Masjid and adjoining areas in Srinagar shortly after Friday prayers.
Troops noticed a group of militants from across the border sneaking into Kashmir in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Two militants of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba were on Tuesday killed in a fierce gunbattle with security forces during an overnight operation in Pulwama district of south Kashmir that also left a policeman injured.
It said that rebels of the Manipur People's Army, the armed wing of the UNLF, came from across the Myanmar border and a gunfight took place at Gamphazol village.
The recoveries made from the gunned-down terrorist included two assault rifles along with two magazines and 234 rounds of bullets, five pistols with 10 magazines and 60 rounds, 15 hand grenades and 12 fuses for IEDs.
Three militants and a woman were killed and two army jawans injured in an encounter in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, a defence spokesperson said in Srinagar Friday.
Three police personnel and two Maoists were killed in a gun-battle between security personnel and ultras in dense forests of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Sunday, police said.
Wani laid down his life during an anti-terror operation at Shopian in Kashmir in November last year.
The jawans were exchanging fire with infiltrators.
In other developments, The Bush administration sought Sunday to allay concerns that a Shiite religious state could emerge in Iraq as a result of last weekend's elections.
One of the kidnappers is also an Indian citizen.
