Innovative measures to double annual fish production in Kashmir valley
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
Thanks to the innovative initiatives and efforts of the Fisheries Department in the Kashmir valley, the annual production of fish has reached a record level and this production is increasing day by day.
Lithium-rich Jammu and Kashmir folds cash as Pakistan watches enviously
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:52 pm
The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K UT) cemented its position on the world map this February after the news about its Lithium Reserves broke on the internet.
Workplace Harassment: The Truth About Women's Labor-Force Participation Decline
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:52 pm
Over the past decade, women's labor force participation has dropped by 5.28 percent (ILO). After providing greater advantages and privileges to women, why is the graph of female participation falling?
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:52 pm
We did not need to make Mujahideen. We created Mujahideen and then they became terrorists - Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah while addressing the Senate on January 31, 2023.
Andhra Pradesh: Maoist Collapse
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
Orchestrating their first incident of violence of the current year, on January 4, 2023, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed a tribal, Soyam Subbaiah, after branding him a ‘police informer’, in the Juvvigudem village of Chintur Mandal (administrative sub-division) in Alluri Sitarama Raju District. About 10 Maoists, suspected to have come from the Konta area in Chhattisgarh, went to the house of the victim in Juvvigudem, and allegedly thrashed him to death.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
On December 27, 2022, the Government of India (GoI), the Government of Manipur and the Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF), a Manipur-based insurgent group, signed a tripartite peace agreement. As per the agreement, the ZUF has agreed to give up violence and join the peaceful democratic process. Manipur Chief Minister (CM), Nongthombam Biren Singh noted.
Spectacles for every Indian in need of a pair
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
India has 270 million people live with vision impairment, and 9.2 million have blindness. No fewer than half of those people could have avoided vision impairment if they had timely access to a pair of basic spectacles.
Odisha: Maoists - Seeking a Safe Haven
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
On November 24, 2022, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot dead a 48-year-old man, identified as Lalbati Majhi, in Panchakul village under Sadar Police Station limits in Bhawanipatna in the Kalahandi District. According to reports, while Lalbati was sleeping in his house, he was forcibly taken away by Maoists and killed near the Katlang village. Some posters were left behind at the spot, in which the Maoists claimed that Lalbati was punished since he was working as a ‘Police informer’. They also warned that others in the area who were working as Police informers would be punished soon.
Twin Virus: Polio and Terrorism
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On October 27, 2022, unidentified militants killed a paramilitary Levies officer Habib-ur-Rehman, deployed to provide security to an anti-polio team in the Sarki Talari tehsil (revenue unit) of Chaman District in Balochistan.
International Day for The Girl Child: Education is the biggest weapon to overcome odds
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
In a remote village in Samastipur, northern Bihar, class 9 student Seema’s (name changed) parents stopped sending her to school because they felt the neighbourhood had become unsafe for her. Across the border, in a remote tea garden area in North Bengal, 16-year-old Ankita Thapa senses the fear and concern in her parents when she returns home late. Her brother, of course, can stay out for as long as he wants.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On September 16, 2022, one Frontier Corps trooper was killed and three were injured when Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) cadres targeted a Frontier Corps vehicle with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Sabzal Road at Podgali Chowk in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. BLA ‘spokesman’ Azad Baloch claimed responsibility of the attack.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On August 31, 2022, Police arrested Amjad Ajmal Hussain, an Ansar al-Islam/Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) suspect, in the Fatasil Ambari neighborhood of Guwahati in Kamrup (Metropolitan) District.
Maoist: Targeting Intelligence Flows
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On August 30, 2022, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres killed Irpa Rama Rao (30), the deputy Sarpanch (head of the Panchayat, village level local self-Government institution) of Kurnapally Gram Panchayat, branding him a ‘police informer’, in the Cherla Mandal (administrative sub-division) of Bhadradri Kothagudem District, Telangana. Police disclosed that four CPI-Maoist came militia (people’s army) members went to Rao’s residence late in the night of August 29, woke up his wife Kanak and told her that they were taking Rao with them. In the early hours on August 30, the militia members brought him back to the village, smashed his head with an axe and left him dead in a pool of blood on the outskirts of the village. A letter from the CPI-Maoist Cherla-Sabari Area Committee was left at the spot, stating that the deceased had been working as a ‘police informer’ and was consequently punished. The letter also cautioned the public not collaborate with the Police for greed of the money offered.
Odisha: Malkangiri: Mainstreaming Maoists
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
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Jharkhand: PLFI: Rankling Irritant
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On August 18, 2022, Police arrested Badal Oraon, a cadre of the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), from Badchorgai under Bagdu Police Station limits in Lohardaga District.
Chronicling the Lived Experiences in a Conflict Zone: Dispatches from Jammu and Kashmir's Doda
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
It was late afternoon in mid-1996 when people began to arrive at our house to inquire about the health of my badi mummy (aunt), cousin, and brother. The whole conversation centred on the magnitude and effect of a bomb detonation in a neighbouring arcade, where three of my family members were caught up.
Balochistan: Targeting Oil and Gas
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:55 pm
On August 3, 2022, Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) cadres blew up the gas pipeline in the Chashma Aab area of Mach in the Kachhi District of Balochistan. BLA ‘spokesman’ Azad Baloch claimed responsibility for the attack and warned, "Our such attacks will continue till the independence of occupied Balochistan."
Balochistan: Targeting Outsiders
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:56 pm
On June 20, 2022, two labourers from Sindh were shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Hoshab area of Kech District in Balochistan. Four assailants riding motorcycles opened fire on the office of a road construction company in the zero-point area of Hoshab and killed the labourers, who were working on an under-construction road that would link Turbat with Hoshab.
China’s SIGINT facilities in Cocos Islands, a threat to India
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:56 pm
The Coco Islands are two islands in the north-eastern Bay of Bengal. They are part of Yangon region of Myanmar.
Manipur: NRFM: Splintering hazard
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:58 pm
On May 6, 2022, an improvised explosive device (IED) blast was reported from the residence of R.K. Virendra at Khurai Thoidingjam Leikai in Imphal East District. This was the second blast reported within 24 hours. Though no casualty was reported, three vehicles parked in the area and windows were damaged due to the force of the blast.
Chinese debt-trap: Africa should take lesson from Sri Lankan economic crisis
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:58 pm
The island nation of Sri Lanka is facing one of the worst economic crisis, skyrocketing inflation, food shortages and weak government finances. This has been an outcome of a sharp rise in foreign debt since 2010, reaching 88 percent of the country’s GDP in 2019, causing a severe economic crisis.
India and Nepal: Connecting for mutual prosperity
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:59 pm
India and Nepal enjoy age-old bilateral relations and special ties of friendship, mutual understanding and cooperation.
Andhra Pradesh: Remnants of a Revolution
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:59 pm
On February 15, 2022, a 17-year-old woman Dalam (armed squad) member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), whose identity has not been disclosed as she is a minor, surrendered before the Police in East Godavari District. She had joined Maoists rank in 2019.
Sep 15, 2024, at 01:01 pm
On January 18, 2022, three Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed in an encounter with the Police in the Karriguttalu Forest area under the Venkatapuram (Nuguru) Mandal (administrative sub-division) in the Mulugu District of Telangana, close to the Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh. The slain Maoists were identified as Venkatapuram-Wazedu ‘area committee secretary’, who hails from Chhattisgarh; Madakam Singe aka Shanta, Kommula Naresh aka Buchanna, Yellandu-Narsampet ‘squad commander’, from Jaggaihapet village under the Regonda Mandal in Jayashankar Bhupalpally District, and Kovasi Mooyal aka Kailas of Cheekupal village in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh. A constable of the Greyhounds, Telangana’s elite anti-Naxal [Left Wing Extremism, LWE] squad, sustained injuries in the encounter. One SLR [Self Loading Rifle], one INSAS [Indian Small Arms System] assault rifle, 10 Rocket Launchers, and other materials were recovered from the encounter site.
Blasphemy: The Murderous Faithful
Sep 15, 2024, at 01:02 pm
On December 3, 2021, a violent mob at the Wazirabad Road in Sialkot city (Sialkot District) of Punjab tortured a Sri Lankan national, Priyantha Kumara, to death over blasphemy allegations before burning his body. Kumara was accused of blasphemy for allegedly tearing down stickers of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) from a wall of factory. Kumar was working as a senior manager at a leading Sialkot factory that manufactures and exports sports products,
Amid Covid19 uncertainty, international students in China stare at a bleak future
Sep 15, 2024, at 01:02 pm
As the world stands facing the threat of yet another COVID-19 variant, termed “Omicron”, which the WHO has announced as a matter of concern1, the future of international students studying in China continues to be in question with no concrete answer in sight.
India and Russia have same goals in Afghanistan where Pakistan pulls the Taliban strings: Experts
Sep 15, 2024, at 01:10 pm
India and the world knows without official acknowledgement that the main problem in Afghanistan is not the Taliban but Pakistan while there is a scope for the Asian giant to do better in the present situation where Russia and China would not want things to go out of control, according to experts at a recent panel discussion.
Baloch nation has the same enemies that Bangladesh had
Sep 15, 2024, at 01:11 pm
Balochistan is being labeled as 'second Bangladesh' by many observers as the nature of detention, torture, extra-judicial killing, disappearance and economic exploitation resemble Pakistani oppressions that took place during and before the liberation war in Bangladesh; the Baloch nation in Pakistan has been suffering the worst type of repression that Bangladesh experienced from 1947 to 1971--long 23 years under Pakistani- Panjabi rulers.
Sep 15, 2024, at 01:11 pm
The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), facing losses across India, is trying to rebuild its cadre strength. With voluntary recruitment drying up, the group has started focusing increasingly on forced recruitment of children.
India-USA Ties: An Enduring Partnership
Sep 15, 2024, at 01:12 pm
U.S. Consulate Kolkata strengthens existing ties and develops new areas of cooperation to advance shared interests between the United States and India, writes outgoing Consul General Patti Hoffman