Shelling has impacted residents in J&K's border villages, with many displaced & living in camps or hiding in bunkers. Their livelihoods have taken a hit too, they find on return home.
Residents want both India & Pakistan to understand that local people are eager to return to normal life without the threat of attacks. They seek permanent ceasefire.
DGMO Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai says Op Sindoor was conceptualised with a clear military aim to punish the perpetrators and planners of terror and to destroy their terror infrastructure.
As areas along LoC saw Pakistani firing & shelling following Op Sindoor, civic volunteers stepped in to evacuate families, offering food, water & bedding—often in their own homes.
According to eyewitnesses, a drone fell on a part of the victims’ house, causing a parked vehicle to catch fire. They rushed to put out the fire and sustained burn injuries.
Those left behind in border villages either don't have resources to move out, or rescue efforts are too stretched. But, even residents in Jammu & Srinagar cities are distressed.
Officers from secretariat assigned Jammu, Poonch, Kathua, Samba, Rajouri, Baramulla, Kupwara & Bandipora. They will oversee emergency measures provide support to district magistrates.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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