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J-K: Flood-hit canals repaired in Nowshera, Jal Shakti Division restores i
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Irrigation Department in Nowshera has swiftly restored canals damaged by recent floods, ensuring the resumption of water supply to farmers across the Rajouri, Sunderbani, and Poonch areas.
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Pakistan: Awami Tehreek, Sindhiyani Tehreek march against 27th Amendment,
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Activists from the Awami Tehreek (AT) and its women's division, the Sindhiyani Tehreek (ST), held a march opposing the 27th Amendment, corporate farming, new canals on the Indus River, so-called honour killings, and the exploitation of the province's resources, as reported by Dawn.
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Sindhi activists protest in Geneva against human rights abuses in Pakista
Updated : 8 months ago IST
The demonstrations were accompanied by a side event at the International Centre Conference on Sindh and a Sindhi Human Rights Exhibition. Protesters raised concerns over a wide range of issues, including enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, land grabbing, forced conversions of Si
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Punjab govt intensifies rescue, relief operations amid heavy rainfall
Updated : 8 months ago IST
In Rupnagar district, Punjab Minister Harjot Singh Baines is personally supervising operations in Sri Anandpur Sahib constituency, where continuous monitoring of rivers, canals, and rivulets is underway.
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Rajasthan: Heavy rains in Dausa cause canals to overflow, relief teams on
Updated : 8 months ago IST
According to Dausa District Magistrate (DM) Devender Kumar, the Haripura dam is overflowing, and relief teams have been placed on alert.
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Telangana CM puts state administration on alert; IMD forecasts heavy rains
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has instructed the officials to take all necessary safety measures to avoid the loss of life during heavy rains and also ensure no vehicle movement on the flooding bridges, canals, streams and causeways brimming with heavy flows in the low lying areas,
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Pakistan: Police crackdown in Sindh sparks demands for independent inquiry
Updated : 12 months ago IST
The protest took place in Moro, a town located along the National Highway, where residents, including members of the Hari Mazdoor Ittehad (a farmers' and labourers' group), gathered to oppose the construction of canals diverting water from the Indus River.
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Protests continue in Sindh against Pakistan government's canal project on
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
The Cholistan Canals issue has become a point of difference between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)- led Sindh government and the Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led federal government.
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World Sindhi Congress blames Pakistan for water injustice and terror spons
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Following the recent terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which resulted in the loss of 26 lives, the World Sindhi Congress has sharply condemned Pakistan's role in "sponsoring terrorism" and accused it of longstanding injustices against Sindh's people regarding Indus water.
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Protests continue in Sindh against Pak govt's Indus River canal project
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Sindhis are protesting against a part of their share of water in the Indus going to Punjab,
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Pakistan: Protesters hold ground over canal row, reject official promises
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Demonstrators in Sindh have rejected government assurances and refused to end their sit-in against the proposed Indus canal projects, despite a federal announcement pausing the initiative. Transport disruptions and economic losses continue as protesters await formal cancellation.
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Pakistan: Lawyers' boycott over canals project paralyses judicial proceedi
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Judicial activities across the subordinate courts in Sindh came to a standstill, as lawyers staged a province-wide boycott in protest against the contentious canals project, as reported by the Dawn.
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