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UN urges Pakistan to boost disaster preparedness amid monsoon risks
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
UNOCHA has urged Pakistan to strengthen disaster risk strategies as heavy monsoon rains threaten floods, landslides, and glacial lake outburst floods in vulnerable regions, including Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan. The report highlights climate change, droughts, and past flood losses, st
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Shisper glacier flood devastates PoGB, blocks Karakoram highway and isolat
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Flooding from the Hunza Shisper Glacier in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan has blocked the Karakoram Highway, damaged homes, farmland, and infrastructure, and stranded travellers. Over 50 labourers narrowly escaped rising waters, while residents face shortages of essentials. Officials
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Monsoon session of Himachal Assembly to have 12 sittings, longest since ni
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Speaker noted that such a long Monsoon Session has occurred only twice before in 1962 and 2009.
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Seventeenth day of Hunza traders' sit-in brings cross-border movement to a
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The sit-in protest orchestrated by the Pak-China Traders' Alliance Action Committee has reached its 17th consecutive day, showing no indication of conclusion as traders remain resolute in their two-point demands. Political, social, and religious groups from all over Pakistan-occupied Gilgit
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SRA marks August 11 as 'Baloch Independence Day,' accuses Pakistan of occu
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA) has stated that 11 August represents a "crucial milestone" in the history of the Baloch nation, indicating what it claims was Britain's acknowledgement of Balochistan's independent status in 1947.
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"Will make sure that such incidents don't take place in the future..," Odi
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Odisha Minister Nityananda Gond, on the tragic death of a 13-year-old girl from Bargarh, who died after self-immolating, clarified that the incident did not occur in school and the cause remains unclear.
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Landslide and glacial floods kill 8 volunteers, ravage homes in PoGB
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Many others were injured and taken to nearby hospitals, where emergency services have been placed on high alert.
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ETGE slams China's 'Propaganda' film, accuses Beijing of colonial occupati
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
As per ETGE, East Turkistan was a sovereign, independent state until it was invaded in 1878 by the Manchu Qing Empire, led by Zuo Zongtang, an officer pursuing colonial ambitions. Following the invasion, the region was unilaterally renamed "Xinjiang," or "new territory," in 1884.
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"He is not an army chief but a terrorist leader": BJP's Hemang Joshi hits
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
"He is not an army chief but a terrorist leader. His statements always work to increase tension between India and Pakistan. We have also seen many incidents occur after he makes statements," the BJP leader told ANI.
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PoGB: Traders sit-in protest on Karakoram Highway enters fourth week, bloc
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A sit-in on the Karakoram Highway has blocked trade between Pakistan and China for 22 days. Protesters demand tax exemptions and clearance of stuck goods in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan. The government's federal committee will meet to resolve the issue, but protesters won't end the str
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Glacial lake outburst floods devastate Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan,
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Climate change-driven disasters continue to batter Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) as a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) from the Shishper Glacier tore through Hassanabad Nullah, swept away part of the Karakoram Highway, and destroyed public and private properties.
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Uttarakhand: IMD issues orange, yellow alerts for several districts till A
Updated : 9 months, 4 weeks ago IST
According to Met Department, heavy rain likely to occur at isolated places in Bageshwar, Dehradun, Tehri, Pauri, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Champawat districts of Uttarakhand.
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