Security has been beefed up across Kashmir ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit to the Valley on July 4. Police and paramilitary forces have set up barricades at many places in the summer capital of the state and other major towns for carrying out searches of vehicles, the police said.

Pakistani troops violated the bilateral ceasefire at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Thursday night.

A top militant of the Lashkar e Tayiba was killed in a fierce encounter and another was arrested by security forces in Krankshivan area of Sopore in north Kashmir's Baramullah district on Monday.

Authorities imposed curfew-like-restrictions in old city areas of Srinagar to foil a rally by the separatist Awami Action Committee headed by Mirwaiz Moulvi Umar Farooq on Friday.

Three militants of the Hizbul Mujaheedin outfit were killed in a fierce encounter in south Kashmir's Tral area in Pulwama district on Thursday evening.

Militants shot dead a former militant in south Kashmir's Anantnag district. They also carried out a grenade explosion in north Kashmir's Sopore town on Tuesday evening injuring two persons.

Talking tough from the Kashmir border, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said that unless violations along the ceasefire halted, dialogue could not progress.

Two militants of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit were killed in a fierce encounter in south Kashmir Pulwama district on Sunday evening, a defence spokesman said.

A top terrorist commander of Lashkar-e-Tayiba outfit was killed in a fierce gunfight in north Kashmir frontier Kupwara district on Sunday morning.

A MIG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed on Tuesday morning in south Kashmir's Anantnag district killing the pilot.

The ruling National Conference as well as the opposition Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday welcomed the decision by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief to attend Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony Monday as prime minister of India.

The Pakistan army once again violated ceasefire along the Line of Control in the Poonch district of Jammu on Tuesday night. Tuesday's attack is the second in four days, with Pakistani troops targeting Indian posts last Sunday.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday lifted the ban on SMS on the prepaid mobile phone services in the state.

An army jawan was killed and two of his colleagues were injured when militants triggered an IED explosion targeting a patrol team along the LoC in Akhnoor area of Jammu district, a senior army official said on Monday.

The Army on Sunday foiled an infiltration bid on the Line of Control in the Rajouri district of Jammu region.

The ruling National Conference-Congress coalition in Jammu and Kashmir received a severe drubbing in the Lok Sabha elections as the coalition could not win even a single seat of the 6 in the state.

Army troops foiled an infiltration bid in the Poonch sector of Jammu region in which two militants were killed.

Pakistani troops violated the bilateral ceasefire on the Line of Control in the Poonch district of Jammu region on Saturday night.

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.

Two militants were killed while an army major and a trooper were wounded in a ongoing fierce encounter in south Kashmir's Shopian district.