Major quake shakes north India-Panic in Kashmir

Major quake shakes north India

Panic in Kashmir                    

A massive earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted Kashmir region, leaving people in a state of panic and chaos.

ریکٹر اسکیل پر 6.5 کی شدت کے زلزلے نے کشمیر کے علاقے کو ہلا کر رکھ دیا، جس سے لوگ خوف و ہراس اور افراتفری میں مبتلا ہیں۔

The quake struck late Tuesday evening, catching residents off guard.

زلزلہ منگل کی شام دیر گئے آیا، جس نے رہائشیوں کو اپنی لپیٹ میں لے لیا۔

 As per the USGS, the earthquake hit 40 km south-southeast of Jurm, Afghanistan, at a depth of 187 km.          

             USGS کے مطابق، زلزلہ 187 کلومیٹر کی گہرائی میں، افغانستان کے جرم سے 40 کلومیٹر جنوب-جنوب مشرق میں آیا۔

 The quake lasted for nearly 30 to 40 seconds, causing panic among people who were seen rushing out of their homes in a state of panic.

زلزلہ تقریباً 30 سے ​​40 سیکنڈ تک جاری رہا جس سے لوگوں میں خوف وہراس پھیل گیا جنہیں خوف و ہراس کی حالت میں گھروں سے باہر نکلتے دیکھا گیا۔

The streets were filled with people running for safety, screaming and crying as they tried to escape the quake's wrath.

سڑکیں لوگوں سے بھری ہوئی تھیں جو حفاظت کے لیے بھاگ رہے تھے، چیخ رہے تھے اور رو رہے تھے جب وہ زلزلے کے قہر سے بچنے کی کوشش کر رہے تھے۔

"I have never felt anything like this before," said Muhammad Ali of Baramulla. "The ground was shaking violently, and I thought the building would collapse any moment. I ran out with my family as fast as I could."

بارہمولہ کے محمد علی نے کہا کہ میں نے پہلے کبھی ایسا محسوس نہیں کیا۔ "زمین پرتشدد سے ہل رہی تھی، اور میں نے سوچا کہ عمارت کسی بھی لمحے گر جائے گی۔ میں اپنی فیملی کے ساتھ جتنی جلدی ہو سکا باہر بھاگا۔"

The situation was chaotic, with people trying to find their loved ones, rescue others, and move to safer places.

صورتحال افراتفری کا شکار تھی، لوگ اپنے پیاروں کو ڈھونڈنے، دوسروں کو بچانے اور محفوظ مقامات پر منتقل ہونے کی کوشش کر رہے تھے۔

"It reminded me of the scenes witnessed on October 8, 2005. It seemed that my house would collapse the next moment. It was so scary," said Tanveer Ahmed.

"اس نے مجھے 8 اکتوبر 2005 کو دیکھے گئے مناظر کی یاد دلا دی۔ ایسا لگتا تھا کہ اگلے ہی لمحے میرا گھر گر جائے گا۔ یہ بہت خوفناک تھا،" تنویر احمد نے کہا۔

There were no immediate reports of any casualties and damage to any buildings due to earthquake, which was felt in Jammu and Kashmir and parts of northern India.

جموں و کشمیر اور شمالی ہندوستان کے کچھ حصوں میں محسوس کیے گئے زلزلے کی وجہ سے کسی بھی جانی یا مالی نقصان کی فوری طور پر کوئی اطلاع نہیں ملی۔

 However, the earthquake has once again highlighted the need for better disaster management and preparedness in the region.

تاہم زلزلے نے ایک بار پھر خطے میں بہتر ڈیزاسٹر مینجمنٹ اور تیاریوں کی ضرورت کو اجاگر کیا ہے۔

Kashmir region is located in a highly seismic zone were earthquakes are not uncommon.

کشمیر کا خطہ ایک انتہائی زلزلہ زدہ علاقے میں واقع ہے جہاں زلزلے غیر معمولی نہیں ہیں۔

Meanwhile, the earthquake disrupted the telecommunication towers resulting in breakdown of the communication with many people unable to make or receive phone calls and send text messages while some were unable to access the internet for a short period.

دریں اثنا، زلزلے نے ٹیلی کمیونیکیشن ٹاورز کو درہم برہم کر دیا جس کے نتیجے میں بہت سے لوگ فون کالز کرنے یا وصول کرنے اور ٹیکسٹ میسج بھیجنے سے قاصر تھے جبکہ کچھ مختصر مدت کے لیے انٹرنیٹ تک رسائی سے قاصر تھے۔

 However, the telecommunication services were restored within half an hour, bringing a sigh of relief to the people

تاہم آدھے گھنٹے میں ٹیلی کمیونیکیشن سروس بحال کر دی گئی جس سے لوگوں نے راحت کی سانس لی۔

News Reported by SYED RIZWAN GEELANI on Grater Kashmir on 23^rd March 2023.

Translated by Mohd Arshid Bhat

English-model-paper-9th

 

Model Paper

Class 9^th                                                                                                                       Total Mark: 80

Q no 1: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end: (20 Marks)

One day the old emperor Shahjahan became ill. His son Aurangzeb, who always wanted to be the emperor, put his father in a jail. Jahanara begum, the eldest child of Shahjahan, did not leave her father and went to jail along with him. She said, “ I shall share the suffering of my father. He needs me in his old age, and I shall never leave him.” Shahjahan lived in the jail for seven years and then he died. During that period princess Jahanara stayed with him and took care of him. After the death of her father she returned to her own palace. She continued to live there and spent the rest of her life serving the needy and the poor. Before her death she gave away all her money to the poor and the needy. She was highly educated and well versed in Persian and Arabic, as well as a writer, painter and poet.Jahanara was Shahjahan’s preferred child. Legend says that once when Aurangzeb was severely sick, Jahanara took care of him. Jahanara died on September 5, 1681 , at the age of 67. Upon her death, Aurangzeb gave her the posthumous title: Sahibat-uz-Zamani (mistress of age).

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*Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.

What exercise is to the body, reading is to the mind. There are different purposes of reading. One of them is deriving pleasure. Children reading for their pleasure rarely stop to ask about the words. They want to get on with the story. If the word is important, they can usually make a good guess about what it is. “He drew an arrow from his quiver”. Easy to see that a quiver is some sort of gadget to put arrows in. More complicated words they figure out by meeting them in different contexts. People learn to read well and get good vocabulary, from books, not work books or dictionaries. As a kid I read years ahead of my age, but I never looked up words in dictionaries, and didn’t even have a dictionary. In my lifetime I don’t believe I have looked even as many as fifty words – neither have most good readers. Most people don’t know how dictionaries are made. Each new dictionary starts from scratch. The company making the dictionary employs thousands of ‘editors’, to each of whom they give a list of words. The job of the editor is to collect as many examples as possible of the ways in which these words are actually used. They look for the words in books, newspapers, and so forth and every time they find one, they cut out or copy that particular example. Then after reading these examples they decide ‘from the context’ what the writer in each case had meant by the words. From these they make definitions. A dictionary in other words, is a collection of people’s opinions about what words mean as other people use them.

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*Read the following comprehension for class 8 exam and answer the questions that follow:

One of the greatest mysteries of bird life is travelling. Every year during autumn and early winter birds travel from northern regions of Asia, Europe and America to the southern warmer lands. They make the return journey again during spring and early summer. They are punctual unless they are delayed by bad weather. They face many dangers and hardships while travelling long distances through the air, over hills, forests, plains and large stretches of water. Sometimes sudden storms arise and drive them far out of course. Often they are blown right out to sea and are drowned in the wild waves. At night bright lights attract and confuse the birds. They cannot fly at their fastest. The migration speed is usually from 48 to 64 km an hour and rarely exceeds 80.

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5.2 Which words in the passage mean the same as the following words:

(i) Surpasses (ii) Secrets

 

Qno2: Write a Paragraph on the following topic: (Do any two)                                       10 Marks

I) Impact of COVID - 19 on the Global Economy.

 

II) The future of Artificial Intelligence.

 

III) War Crimes

 

iv) Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan

 

v) Russia-Ukraine war

                          

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Qno 4: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end: (Marks 10)

“Far away,” continued the statue in a low musical voice, “far away in  a little street there is a poor house. One of the windows is  open, and through it I can see a women seated at a table. Her face is thin and worn, and she has coarse, red hands, all pricked by the needle, for she is a seamstress. She is embroidering flowers on a satin gown for the loveliest of the queen\s maids of  honour, to wear at the next court ball. In a bed in the corner of the room her little boy is lying ill. He has fever, and is asking his mother to give him oranges. His mother has nothing to give him but river water, so he is crying. Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow, will you not bring her the ruby out of my sword hilt? My feet are fastened to this pedestal and I cannot move.”

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*Suddenly Sue heard Johnsy Whisper something. She quickly rushed to the bed and heard Johnsy counting backwards. She was looking out of the window and was saying, “Twelve” After sometime she whispered “eleven”, Then “ten”, then “nine”, “eight”, “seven”. Sue anxiously looked out of the window. She saw an old ivy creeper climbing half-way up the brick wall opposite their window. In the strong wind outside, the creeper was shedding its leaves.

‘What is it, dear? Sue asked

“six”, whispered johnsy, “They are falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred leaves. There are only five left now.”

“it is autumn,” said sue “and the leaves will fall.”

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