The gunfight broke out after a terrorist was spotted by local residents around 4 pm at Kamadh Nullah, which falls under the Billawar police station area. Officials said the terrorists were seen earlier in the day in the Dhannu Parole area.
The Minister chaired a review meeting at Kathua with the district administration on the developmental projects.
The team, led by the Chairman of the Pollution Control Committee, along with the Deputy Commissioner, Kathua, and other concerned officers, has been constituted by the Committee on Environment of the J&K Legislative Assembly, headed by CPI(M) MLA Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, which visited the area on Tuesday.
Dr Jitendra Singh said that this is a day that Kathua and the entire Jammu region will remember as the beginning of a new era of scientific enterprise and economic transformation.
Two terrorists were arrested in J&K's Poonch district during an intelligence-backed raid, and arms and ammunition were later recovered on the basis of their disclosure.
Six persons of a family, including two children, died of asphyxiation when a fire erupted in a house in Jammu's Kathua early Wednesday, officials said.
Several issues raised by individual citizens and delegations were resolved on the spot, while instructions for immediate action were issued in several other cases.
Head Constable Bashir Ahmad lost his life while fighting the terrorists with his light machine gun (LMG) in the Billawar area of Kathua where Pakistani terrorists were operating for the past few months.
Two terrorists eliminated in Kashmir's Kulgam six security forces personnel injured.
Contact has been established and few rounds have been fired from both sides.
