Srinagar, India - Three people were killed and at least seven injured in a grenade attack by suspected Islamic militants at a bus stand in the heart of the capital of the northern Indian sate Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar on Thursday, police said.

Police said there could be more people injured but were waiting for further details.

Militants stepped up their activities in Jammu and Kashmir recently, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 40 in various incidents since Sunday.

Jammu, July 24: Authorities in Jammu today imposed night curfew at the border belt of Jammu District as they said there was an apprehension of weapons being smuggled to subversives.

Srinagar, July 24 : Scores of women activists took to the streets here to protest against alleged human rights violations in the Kashmir Valley.

Activists of the Muslim Khawateen-e- Markaz, the women''s wing of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, staged the demonstration in the Raj Bagh area. They were protesting against disappearances and the illegal detention of innocent Kashmiris by armed forces over the past 19 years.

Wearing green colored headbands and brandishing flags, the women chanted slogans against the State Government for failing to take concrete steps to check human rights violations in the valley.

Jammu, July 24: The Shri Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti (SASS) will observe a shutdown in Jammu today against the revocation of the State Government’s order to transfer 40 hectares of forest land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board.

The shutdown follows the death of Kuldeep Kumar Dogra, an activist of the trust in a hospital in Jammu last afternoon. He fell unconscious during a chain hunger strike.

Srinagar, Kashmir - At least 15 people were killed and more than 35 injured Wednesday when their bus fell into a gorge in India's northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said.

The accident occurred when the driver lost control of the bus at Sher-Bibi near the Banihal pass, about 80 kilometres south of the state's summer capital, Srinagar. The bus was on its way to Srinagar from the state's winter capital, Jammu, 150 kilometres to the south.

Eleven people died on the spot while four succumbed to their injuries on the way to hospital.

Ramban (J-K), July 23 : At least 12 passengers were killed and 26 others were injured when a bus fell into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir''s Ramban District early this morning.