Tag: Change

Was Kashmir being readied for demographic change even before Article 370 was scrapped? Evita Das Imagine Srinagar 15 years from now. Instead of spools of barbed wire ringing the iconic Lal Chowk, there are slick shopping malls. The Dal Lake, instead of being impinged upon by houseboats, is a ...

Torrential rainfall in Pakistan claimed more than 100 lives last week, while causing widespread property and infrastructure damage.   The southern port city Karachi was thrown into chaos. Residential and commercial areas were submerged, and power outages disrupted life for days. Climate scientists say Pakistan is especially vulnerable to wild ...

Nineteen years after 9/11, al Qaeda's name is fading from American consciousness, mostly reduced to a mention in an occasional news story in the rare event that one of its senior leaders is eliminated by U.S. forces. While Americans may be all-too eager to forget about al Qaeda and ...

Governors’ Conference: LG terms education as biggest catalyst for change ‘Govt’s focus is to make JK centre of knowledge, enterprise, innovation and skill development Jammu, Sep 07: Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha on Monday gave his valuable suggestions for effective implementation of National Education Policy in Transforming Higher Education across the ...

Under Karachi's baroque local governance, services are choked by a tangle of different administrations, often run by competing political fiefdoms. In the confusion, drains go uncleared, rubbish can go uncollected and water mains reach few buildings. All the while, the city gets bigger. The effects of climate change are ...

This year, sand mining in Jammu and Kashmir has become a dangerous and costly business.“The truck of sand is delivered to us at night,” said a sand contractor on the outskirts of Srinagar who identified himself only as Ahmad. “There is always the danger of the police seizing the ...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has clearly conveyed to his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe that China must strictly respect the Line of Actual Control(LAC) and not make attempts to unilaterally change its status quo, asserting India is determined to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity, officials said ...

New Delhi: India on Thursday said the situation witnessed in the border areas in eastern Ladakh over the past four months is a “direct result” of actions taken by China aimed at effecting unilateral change in the status quo of the region.External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said India ...

#Pakistan News The volume of lakes formed as glaciers worldwide melt due to climate change has jumped by 50% in 30 years, according to a new study based on satellite data. "We have known that not all meltwater is making it into the oceans immediately," lead author Dan Shugar, ...

New Delhi: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah says in a new book that he will neither be “Indian enough for extreme right-wing nationalist politicians” nor “Kashmiri enough for those who don’t see Kashmir’s future as part of India”.   It is therefore best to be true to oneself, Abdullah ...