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Official sources says that Indian and Pakistani troops have exchanged fire in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, two civilians were killed and three people wounding on the Pakistani side. A statement of Pakistani army released on Monday says that Indian troops targeted civilians in the Jandrot and Hot Spring sectors along the military control line, killing two people and wounding three, Pakistani troops returned fire. Indian army officer Lt. Col.Manish Mehta, says that Pakistani soldiers fired at Indian positions in two sectors early Monday with no report of casualties.
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The National Human Rights Commission declared that only three of Odisha's 568 hospitals have fire safety clearance, issued a notice to the BJD Government over the fire incident happened at a hospital in Bhubaneswar which caused death of 21 people dead and more than 100 people were injured in the blaze that broke out at SUM Hospital and Medical College on Monday evening.  The Commission has observed that uncaring attitude and lapses of the authorities if any, violation of right to life of the patients, and expressed a shock how the state authorities 'allowed' such a large number of hospitals to function without proper fire safety clearance. 
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17 Indian soldiers were killed in a massive fire at a military ammunition depot in Maharashtra state, army officials say. The fire in the depot at Pulgaon near Nagpur provoke a number of explosions leading to the evacuation of people from neighbouring villages. Firefighters were tried to put out the firestorm, in which at least 19 people have also been injured. The dead include two army officers. The cause of the fire is still unknown. The fire broke out and spread quickly through the depot. Sources say about 1,000 villagers had been evict as armour and sliver ripped through the area. There have been several such incidents at army ammunition depots in recent years.
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Due to high temperatures fires across Himalayan state of Uttarakhand have burned more than 2,300 hectares of forests and killed six people. Officials says due to increased intensity this year forests being drier as unexpectedly high temperatures and low rainfall in the last two years. Others have said that the fires were started illegally by timber traders. The National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF), the Indian army, Air force and 6,000 fire-fighters are involved in the efforts to save the forests. The fires had spread to 13 districts in the state of Uttarakhand such as Rudraprayag, Pauri, Tehri, Pithogarh, Nainital and Almora. There were also reports of blazes surrounding two major tiger reserves, Corbett National Park and Rajaji National Park. Indian air force helicopters have been spraying water from the region's lakes such as Bhimtal, but were hindered by poor visibility caused by dense smoke. The Indian government is now using a satellite-based fire alarm system that will send alerts to authorities every time a new fire is detected.
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