Twelve people, including nine rebels, have been killed and 20 others wounded in separatist violence in India's revolt-racked Kashmir region.
The Himalayan territory remains at the centre of a tense military standoff between India and Pakistan, following an attack on India's parliament blamed on Pakistan-based Kashmiri rebels.
One person died and 16 were wounded when unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at a government guest house at Kishtwar, east of the state's winter capital, Jammu. No group has claimed responsibility as yet.
Last night, security forces shot dead three members of the Hizbul Mujahideen group in a shootout near the Pakistan border in Kupwara district northwest of Srinagar, the state's summer capital.
In another gunbattle, two militants belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad, one of the two groups New Delhi blames for the attack on its parliament, were killed in south Kashmir.
Elsewhere, four militants and two civilians were killed and two soldiers and two civilians were wounded in separate incidents across the restive region since yesterday evening, police said.
Muslim insurgents have been fighting New Delhi's rule in Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, since late 1989.
Authorities say about 33,000 people have been killed in the rebellion while separatists put the toll closer to 80,000.
India controls 45 per cent of the disputed region and accuses Pakistan of arming and training the Islamic insurgents. Pakistan, which controls a third of Kashmir, insists it only offers moral support to Kashmiri separatists.