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The Hindu
A video on the increase in female soldiers in Ganderbal district
Central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district has recently seen an increase in the number of female soldiers being deployed at mobile vehicle check posts. Known as Rifle Women, they help bridge the gap between the locals and forces in Ganderbal. They check women passengers in vehicles that pass the check posts on the National Highway. A task that was previously conducted by female police personnel of the Jammu & Kashmir Police. The Rifle Women also help in conducting search operations.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.