At A Glance: June 6

Teacher on census duty dies

A school teacher, engaged in census work in a remote village of Uttarakhand, has died, official sources said on Thursday. Narendra Lal died of some illness in Irani villageon Wednesday night, they said. He had returned to work after a long medical leave. Irani is a remote village of Chamoli district and one has to trek 35 km to reach there.

School principal charred to death

A government school principal has been charred to death while trying to douse fire in jungles at Ravainkhal area of Bageshwar district, official sources on Thursday. The incident took place when Jaman Singh, principal of Asano Inter College at Kapkot area, went to douse the blaze in the nearby jungles on Wednesday and came in its grip. Later, villagers accompanying him informed the officials about the incident, who rushed to the spot and sent the body for postmortem.

Transferred

Uttarakhand government on Wednesday transfered eight IPS officials, including police heads of five districts, to further tone up dminstration. Superintendent of Police (SP) Rudraprayag Nilesh Anand Bharne has been made the new SP of Pithoragarh. Bharne would replace Puran Singh Rawat, who has now been made the commandar of Indian Reserve Battalion (Haridwar), a government spokesman said. Bharne would be replaced by Sweety Agrawal, who was awaiting posting since the Kumbh mela was over in April. Ajay Mohan Joshi has been made new SP of Uttarkashi district in place of Mukhtar Mohsin, who would now hold the charge of Bageshwar district. Dileep Kunwar, who was till now holding responsibility of SP Bageshwar, has now been shifted to police headquarters here. 40th Battalion PAC Commander Ajay Rautela has now been made SSP of Udhamsingh Nagar. Rautela would replace G.N. Goswami, who has been transferred to police headquarters here