Tag: protection

SRINAGAR, India —  Thousands of people in the remote region of Ladakh have been protesting for over two weeks in freezing temperatures, demanding constitutional provisions from the Indian government to protect their territory's fragile ecology and to have autonomy over land and agriculture decisions. Situated between India, Pakistan and ...

Several groups in Ladakh led by environmentalist and educationist Sonam Wangchuk are demanding constitutional measures enabling them to protect their land, culture, environment. Ladakh is being treated like a colony, with bureaucrats from outside controlling all policies related to the ecologically sensitive region, Wangchuk alleged on Sunday in a ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Thousands of people in the remote region of Ladakh have been protesting for over two weeks in freezing temperatures, demanding constitutional provisions from the Indian government to protect their territory’s fragile ecology and to have autonomy over land and agriculture decisions. Nestled between India, Pakistan ...

DPAP Chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad addressing public meeting in Rajpora area of Pulwama on Friday. Excelsior Correspondent SRINAGAR, Mar 8: Former J&K Chief Minister and DPAP Chairman, Ghulam Nabi Azad today pledged to enact law ensuring job and land protection for the locals if his ...

AS Mittal The resurgence of protests by farmers has brought attention to their longstanding struggle for sustainable profitability in the agricultural sector. Although their demands are diverse, their primary request is for a legal guarantee for MSP (Minimum Support Prices). Farmers believe that the government has not shown genuine ...

DPAP chairman, Ghulam Nabi Azad addressing public meeting at Chowadi in Jammu on Monday. * Vows to maintain dignity for STs Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 29: Former J&K Chief Minister and DPAP chairman, Ghulam Nabi Azad today vowed to bring laws to protect land and jobs for the locals ...

ISLAMABAD —  Authorities in northwestern Pakistan said Monday that at least six police officers were killed and nearly two dozen injured when a roadside bomb struck their truck in a remote region bordering Afghanistan. The officers were traveling to Bajaur, a militancy-hit border district, to escort anti-polio workers on ...

New Delh: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted Rajendra Bihari Lal, the vice-chancellor of Uttar Pradesh’s Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology, and Sciences (SHUATS), and some other officials of the institution interim protection from arrest in a case of alleged illegal religious conversion, rape and immoral trafficking. The ...

According to news reports, Pakistani security forces began detaining and deporting dozens of Afghans under the new policy this week after a Government deadline for them to leave ran out.The majority of undocumented refugees who have settled in Pakistan over decades are from neighbouring Afghanistan, and following the Taliban ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A court in Pakistan on Thursday granted several days of protection from arrest to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in graft cases, clearing the way for him to return home from self-imposed exile in London, where he went in 2019 for medical treatment. The decision by ...