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The government in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday ordered that the Darbar Move offices for Summer session (2020) will open in Srinagar on July 06 and the offices will close in Jammu on 26th June.

In what could raise goosebumps, many people including a senior journalist, who were tested positive for the deadly COVID pandemic at Chest Disease Hospital laboratory a few days back, tested negative for the virus at SKIMS Soura.

Suspected militants on Monday shot dead a Sarpanch in Lukbawan Larkipora area of Anantnag district, officials said.

A COVID infected elderly man from Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district died at CD Hospital on Monday, taking death toll due to COVID-19 pandemic to 44 in the Jammu and Kashmir.

The Central Reserve Paramilitary Force (CRPF) has decided to perform the last rites of its first COVID causality in Kashmir only and not to send the body of deceased to his native village.

The government in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday evening issued new guidelines to be followed during the lockdown period which will be effective from tomorrow till further orders.

Two more militants have been killed in an encounter in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Sunday morning, taking the death toll of militants to 05.

Three militants have been killed in an encounter that broke out between militants and government forces in Reban village of Zainapora belt in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Sunday morning.