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PoGB residents express dissatisfaction as budget neglects local demands
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
People of the area have expressed dissatisfaction with the budget for Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) that has neglected local demands in the allocations, Skardu TV, a local news source from PoGB, reported.
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Opposition parliamentarian exposes corruption nexus, tax fraud in PoGB
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Nawaz Khan Naji an opposition member of Parliament from Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) on Monday raised his concerns over biased budgetary allocation in the financial budget presented on Monday at the assembly, a local news channel from PoGB.
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PoGB: Abandoned school project remains useless despite major investments
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The people of Daso village situated in the Shigar District in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) are currently facing a crisis as it lacks resources and basic amenities due to neglect and mismanagement of the district administration, Skardu TV a local news outlet from PoGB reported on
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Protests erupt in PoGB after administration leases out governmental land f
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Hundreds of residents from Skardu in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) organised a major protest over the administration's recent decision to lease several government guest houses and forest land to private business owners from the Punjab Province, a local news outlet from PoGB, Skar
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PoGB leaders organize conference to oppose forest land leases to Punjab bu
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Leaders from Awami Action Committee (AAC) belonging to Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) on Thursday organized a conference at the Gilgit Press Club, criticizing the local government for leasing forest lands of PoGB to private business owners of Punjab Province, local news outlet fro
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Protesters block Karakoram Highway in PoGB against negligence of administr
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Protestors from the Nasirabad Hunza area in Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) blocked the Karakoram Highway on Tuesday, raising their concerns over the infrastructural underdevelopment in the PoGB area, a report by the Pamir Times, a local news Outlet from PoGB stated.
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"Hero-worship is road to dictatorship": Congress slams Sambit Patra over r
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Patra landed in a row in Odisha on Monday after he told a local news channel that "Lord Jagannath is a devotee (bhakt) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi." He later described it as a "slip of the tongue."
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"Will observe fast as penance to Lord Jagannath": BJP's Sambit Patra apolo
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Patra, the BJP candidate from Puri Lok Sabha seat, landed in a row in Odisha on Monday after he told a local news channel that "Lord Jagannath is a devotee (bhakt) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi." He later described it as a "slip of the tongue."
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"I can't breathe": Black man in Ohio dies after US cops pin him down
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The Ohio police has released body camera footage of a black man who died after repeatedly telling the police officers that "I can't breathe" as they pinned him down to arrest him, reported WKYC, a local news network in Cleveland.
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PoK: Gilgit-Baltistan faces medical, infrastructural crisis due to adminis
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The Chunda village in the Skardu district of Gilgit Baltistan has a panoramic view of mountainsides and forests to die for. But the people are the ones who have to face the biggest drawback of the Pakistani administration's inability to build infrastructure for the locals, a report by Skardu
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Gilgit Baltistan CM seeks federal cooperation to address unemployment, und
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan held a press conference in the Chilas district of Gilgit Baltistan to address the issues and problems faced by the people in the region, the Gilgit Baltistan local news channel, Pamir Times reported.
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UAE: Interest in space is booming, and may bring humanity closer together
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
A local newspaper said that the first total solar eclipse humans ever recorded was seen in the sky above modern-day Latakia, Syria, more than three millennia ago. "The Sun was put to shame," a historian back then wrote, as the Moon obscured it entirely for two minutes and seven seconds, turn
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